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A survey of the roads of the United States of America

Title: A survey of the roads of the United States of America / by Christopher Colles.
Author: Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816.
Publication: [New York : s.n.], 1789.

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Status	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.	Cartographic	Restricted use	*KD 1789 (Colles. C. Survey of the roads of the United States of America)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M1A to submit a request in person.	Cartographic	Use in library	Map Div. 97-6233	Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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Description

1 p.l. : 86 [really 83] maps; 4mo.

Donor/Sponsor

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 4000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

Roads > United States > Maps > Early works to 1800
Roads > Middle Atlantic States > Maps > Early works to 1800

Note

Title-page signed: C. Tiebout Sculpt.
Maps no. 34-39 were probably never engraved, as they are wanting in the copies known.

Indexed In (note)

Evans
Sabin

Call Number

*KD 1789 (Colles, C. Survey of the roads of the United States of America)

LCCN

84675230

OCLC

5160108

Author

Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816.

Title

A survey of the roads of the United States of America / by Christopher Colles.

Imprint

[New York : s.n.], 1789.

Indexed In:

Evans 21741

Sabin 14411

Local Note

Inserted: Proposals for publishing a survey of the roads of the United States of America. By Christopher Colles...

Original blue paper wrappers with pasted title-slip, "Colles's survey of the roads," bound in.

Lower edges untrimmed.

Copy in Map Div. 97-6233: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.

Copy in Map Div. 97-6233 imperfect: maps 34-39, 43-50, 68-86 and title-slip wanting.

Copy in Map Div. 97-6233 includes inserted "Proposals ..." pasted inside front cover.

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Added Author

Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816. Proposals for publishing A survey of the roads of the United States of America.

Tiebout, Cornelius, 1773?-1832.

Research Call Number

*KD 1789 (Colles, C. Survey of the roads of the United States of America)

Map Div. 97-6233 [LHS 4000, atlas cases]

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