Research Catalog

Title

To the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqrs., true & absolute proprietaries & Governours of the Province of Pennsylvania & counties of New-Castle, Kent & Sussex on Delaware this map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsylvania / is humbly dedicated by Nicholas Scull ; engraved by Ja. Turner.

Author

Scull, Nicholas, 1686?-1761?

Publication

Philadelphia : Sold by the author, Nicholas Scull, Jan. 1st 1759

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turner, James, -1759.
• Davis, John, active 1756-1759.

Description

1 map : hand col.; 76 x 153 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

This map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsylvania

Subjects

• Pennsylvania > Administrative and political divisions > Maps > Early works to 1800
• Pennsylvania > Maps > Early works to 1800

Note

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows county boundaries.
• "Published according to Act of Parliament."

Call Number

Map Div. 00-398

LCCN

74692506

OCLC

5400885

Author

Scull, Nicholas, 1686?-1761?

Title

To the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqrs., true & absolute proprietaries & Governours of the Province of Pennsylvania & counties of New-Castle, Kent & Sussex on Delaware this map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsylvania / is humbly dedicated by Nicholas Scull ; engraved by Ja. Turner.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Sold by the author, Nicholas Scull, Jan. 1st 1759 (Philadelphia : Printed by John Davis)

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:250,000].

Local Note

NYPL copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing.

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Added Author

Turner, James, -1759.

Davis, John, active 1756-1759.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 00-398 [Oversize - Filed with United States Oversize]