Books+ Search Results
A map of the British and French dominions in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations
Title
A map of the British and French dominions in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho. Kitchin, sculp.
Edition
[First edition, third issue].
Publication
[London] : Publish'd by the author Febry 13th, 1755 according to the act of Parliament, and sold by And. Millar, opposite Katharine Street in the Strand, [1755]
Physical Description
1 map : hand colored ; 136 x 195 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale approximately 1:2,000,000 (W 107°00ʹ--W 51°00ʹ/N 52°20ʹ--N 28°10ʹ).
Local Notes
BEIN 71 1755C: Imperfect: chipped, with some loss of text. Dissected and mounted on linen.
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
First edition, third issue with Miller's name and Katherine Street in imprint spelled correctly and one of the two towns in Massachusetts previously engraved as Leicester has been correctly redesignated Worcester.
For a description of different editions and impressions, see the Osher Map Library (http://oshermaps.org/special-map-exhibits/mitchell-map/cartographic-notes).
Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late survey of those coasts."
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 25, 2003
References
Ristow, W. A la carte, page 109
McCorkle, B.B. New England in early printed maps, 1513 to 1800, 755.31
Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps (3rd ed.), 293, and p. 25-26
Subjects
Genre/Form
Maps.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
