Research Catalog

Title

To the independent mariners of America : this chart of their coast from Savannah to Boston is most respectfully dedicated / by their much obliged & grateful servant, W. Heather ; engraved by J. Stephenson.

Author

Heather, William, 1764-1812.

Publication

London : Published as the Act directs ... by Wm. Heather, at the Navigation Warehouse, No. 157, Leadenhall Street, March 5th, 1799.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stephenson, J., engraver.
• Norie, J. W. (John William), 1772-1843.

Description

1 map; 62 x 154 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

• Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 245.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

• Nautical charts > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) > Early works to 1800
• Atlantic Coast (U.S.) > Maps > Early works to 1800

Note

• Depths shown by soundings. Relief in selected areas shown pictorially.
• In lower left margin: Drawn by J. Norie, teacher of navigation, Leadenhall Street, London.
• Oriented with north toward the upper right.
• Includes notes.

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6316

OCLC

49597016

Author

Heather, William, 1764-1812.

Title

To the independent mariners of America : this chart of their coast from Savannah to Boston is most respectfully dedicated / by their much obliged & grateful servant, W. Heather ; engraved by J. Stephenson.

Imprint

London : Published as the Act directs ... by Wm. Heather, at the Navigation Warehouse, No. 157, Leadenhall Street, March 5th, 1799.

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:1,150,000] (W 82⁰--W 65⁰/N 44⁰--N 29⁰).

Local Note

NYPL copy has stamped in ink on verso of the map: 25.

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Added Author

Stephenson, J., engraver.

Norie, J. W. (John William), 1772-1843.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6316 [LHS 245]