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A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Title: A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina / drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775.
Author: Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754.
Publication: London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [1775]

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	north sheet	Cartographic	Oversize	Map Div. 00-346 north sheet	Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	south sheet	Cartographic	Oversize	Map Div. 00-346 south sheet	Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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Description

1 map on 2 sheets : hand col.; 80 x 122 cm., sheets 53 x 127 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

Middle Atlantic States > Maps > Early works to 1800
Virginia > Maps > Early works to 1800
Maryland > Maps > Early works to 1800

Note

Relief shown pictorially.
"To the Right Honourable, George Dunk, Earl of Halifax ... This map is most humbly inscribed ... by ... Tho's Jefferys. "
This version differs from similar versions, because of omission of Jefferys' name and address from the imprint.
Appears in Thomas Jefferys' American atlas.
Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet.
Outline color.
Described in: Fry & Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland : facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings. 1966. p. [21].
Includes distance chart and ill.
Sheets numbered on verso: 21 -- 22.

Indexed In (note)

Variant of Cumming

Call Number

Map Div. 00-346

OCLC

23617302

Author

Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754.

Title

A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina / drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775.

Imprint

London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [1775]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:650,000] (W 84⁰00ʹ--W 72⁰50ʹ/N 40⁰15ʹ--N 35⁰45ʹ)

Indexed In:

Variant of Cumming 449

Local Note

NYPL copy mounted on muslin.

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Added Author

Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757.

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771. American atlas.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 00-346 [Oversize - Filed with United States Oversize]

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