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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 1763: On sheet 54 x 73 cm. Date in title cartouche changed to "1763" in manuscript. Manuscript annotations on map. Manuscript number "14" in upper right corner and on verso. Labeled "Amérique septentrionale anglois" in manuscript. Stamp on verso: Yale Horace Brown 1900S.
BEIN 755 1755G: Mounted on heavy paper. On sheet 44 x 60 cm. Stamp on verso: Yale Horace Brown 1900S.
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Variant with "Explication" in French only.
"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.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
French
Added to Catalog
July 02, 2008
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(a)
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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