Research Catalog

Title

[Views of the entrance to New York Harbour].

Author

Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729-1824.

Publication

[London] : Publish'd ... by J.F.W. Des Barres, Esqr., Oct[obe]r 4, 1777.

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Additional Authors

Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729-1824.

Description

5 views on 1 sheet; 14 x 48 cm. or smaller, sheet 81 x 59 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 827.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative Title

• View of the Highland of Neversunk, N.W. by W. four miles distant, with the light house, on Sandy hook, N.W.
• South shore of Long Island, ten leagues eastward of Sandy Hook, four miles distant.
• New York with the entrance of the North and East rivers.
• Light house on Sandy Hook, S.E. one mile.
• Narrows (between Red and Yellow Hook, on Long Island, & the east bluff of Staten Island) bearing S. by W.

Subject

• New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800

Note

• Five perspective views of the approaches to New York Harbor taken by J.F.W. Des Barres for the use of Royal Navy of Great Britain.
• Collective title supplied by cataloger.
• Includes note.
• From Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune.

Indexed In (note)

• Phillips. Maps of America
• Phillips

Contents

[1.] A view of the Highland of Neversunk, N.W. b[y] W. four miles distant, with the light house, on Sandy hook, N.W. -- [2.] The south shore of Long Island, ten leagues eastward of Sandy Hook, four miles distant -- [3.] New York with the entrance of the North and East rivers -- [4.] The light house on Sandy Hook, S.E. one mile -- [5.] The Narrows (between Red and Yellow Hook, on Long Island, & the east bluff of Staten Island) bearing S. b[y] W.

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6188

OCLC

45311381

Author

Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729-1824.

Title

[Views of the entrance to New York Harbour].

Imprint

[London] : Publish'd ... by J.F.W. Des Barres, Esqr., Oct[obe]r 4, 1777.

Cartographic Data

Scale not given.

Indexed In:

Phillips. Maps of America, p. 527

Phillips 1198

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Added Author

Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1729-1824. Atlantic Neptune.

Added Title

View of the Highland of Neversunk, N.W. by W. four miles distant, with the light house, on Sandy hook, N.W.

South shore of Long Island, ten leagues eastward of Sandy Hook, four miles distant.

New York with the entrance of the North and East rivers.

Light house on Sandy Hook, S.E. one mile.

Narrows (between Red and Yellow Hook, on Long Island, & the east bluff of Staten Island) bearing S. by W.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6188 [LHS 827]