Research Catalog
North America
- Title
- North America / performed under the patronage of Louis Duke of Orleans, First Prince of the Blood by the Sieur d'Anville ; greatly improved by Mr. Bolton ; engrav'd by R. W. Seale ; Gravelot, delin. ; Walker, sculp.
- Author
- Bolton, Solomon, -approximately 1768.
- Publication
- [London] : Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1752.
- Supplementary Content
- Image(s) via Library of Congress
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Oversize | Map Div. 00-348 | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Cartographic | Oversize | Map Div. 97-6155 [Oversize - Filed with LHS Oversize; LHS 550M] | Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 |
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- Description
- 1 map : hand col.; 82 x 83 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Mercator Society Fund.
- Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 550M.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
- Subject
- Note
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Shows provinces, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory.
- Also shows shoals, banks, and other navigational hazards off the coast of Nova Scotia and in the Caribbean area.
- "N.B. This large map of North America was originally engrav'd at Paris, ..."
- Issued to the subscribers of "Mr. Postlethwayt's Dictionary of commerce."
- Includes historical and descriptive notes, and an inset chart of Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay.
- Prime meridian: Ferro.
- Indexed In (note)
- LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Call Number
- Map Div. 00-348
- LCCN
- 74694275
- OCLC
- 5406800
- Author
- Bolton, Solomon, -approximately 1768.
- Title
- North America / performed under the patronage of Louis Duke of Orleans, First Prince of the Blood by the Sieur d'Anville ; greatly improved by Mr. Bolton ; engrav'd by R. W. Seale ; Gravelot, delin. ; Walker, sculp.
- Imprint
- [London] : Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1752.
- Cartographic Data
- Scale [ca. 1:6,000,000] (W 114̕--W 52̕/N 52̕--N 6̕)
- Indexed In:
- LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 13
- Additional Formats
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Local Note
- Copy in Map Div. 00-348: Mercator Society Fund.Copy in Map Div. 97-6155: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782.Seale, Richard William.Postlethwayt, Malachy, 1707?-1767.Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773. IllustratorWalker, Anthony, 1726-1765. egr.John and Paul Knapton (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 00-348 [Filed as Oversize - North America]Map Div. 97-6155 [Oversize - Filed with LHS Oversize; LHS 550M]