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Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale
Title
Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale / Thos. Kitchin, sculpt.
Publication
[London] : [Amsterdam] : [Berlin] : [Hague] : [Jean Palairet], 1755.
Manufacture
Se vend à Londres chez Messrs. Kitchin, Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer à Amsterdam & à Berlin, chez Mrs. Neaulme & Covens & Mortier, & La Haye chez Mr. P. Gosse
Physical Description
1 map : hand colored ; 40 x 56 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale approximately 1:7,000,000 (W 107°00ʹ--W 50°00ʹ/N 52°50ʹ--N 28°00ʹ).
Local Notes
BEIN 755 1755E Copy 1: Sheet measures 58 x 72 cm. Stamp on verso: Yale Horace Brown 1900S.
BEIN 755 1755E Copy 2: Sheet measures 51 x 66 cm. Stamp on verso: Yale Horace Brown 1900S. Number on verso: 6585.
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Variant with "Explication" in French and English and with additional boundary lines with titles in French drawn horizontally across the map.
"On trouvera dans le troisiéme volume de la Nouvelle introduction à la géographie moderne ..." at bottom.
Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Coordinates converted by cataloger to express longitude as measured from the Greenwich meridian.
Appeared in Jean Palairet's Atlas methodique.
Variant and related titles
Carte des possessions angloises et françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 30, 2003
References
McCorkle, B.B. New England in early printed maps, 1513 to 1800, 755.22
Tooley, R. V. Mapping of America, page 62, map 18(b)
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Maps.
Also listed under
Cóvens et Mortier, bookseller.
England London.
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Germany Berlin.
Netherlands Hague.
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