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Carey's American atlas.
- Title
- Carey's American atlas.
- Author
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Published by Mathew Carey, April 1809.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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. 97-6054 | Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 atlas ([27] leaves (some folded)) : 25 maps; 46 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 330.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
- Alternative Title
- American atlas
- Subjects
- Note
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Majority of maps compiled by Samuel Lewis, and many engraved by W. Barker, 1794-1809.
- Most maps have statement: Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved.
- Longitude given from Philadelphia; some maps also give longitude from London.
- Map numbers on maps do not correspond to the numbers assigned in the contents given on t.p. Maps are bound in the sequence given on t.p.
- Indexed In (note)
- Variant of Phillips
- Contents
- (from t.p.): 1. United States -- 2. British settlements in America -- 3. Vermont -- 4. New-Hampshire -- 5. Province of Main -- 6. Massachusetts -- 7. Rhode-Island -- 8. Connecticut -- 9. New-York -- 10. New-Jersey -- 11. Pennsylvania -- 12. Delaware -- 13. Maryland -- 14. Virginia -- 15. North-Carolina -- 16. South-Carolina -- 17. Georgia -- 18. Kentucky -- 19. Tennessee -- 20. South-America -- 21. West-Indies -- 22. Captain Cook's discoveries -- 23. Seven ranges of townships -- 24. Part of the State of Ohio -- 25. Louisiana.
- Call Number
- Map Div. 97-6054
- OCLC
- 9611022
- Author
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Title
- Carey's American atlas.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Published by Mathew Carey, April 1809.
- Cartographic Data
- Scales differ.
- Indexed In:
- Variant of Phillips 1173
- Local Note
- NYPL copy imperfect: maps of South Carolina and Tennessee wanting; map of South America on loose leaf.NYPL copy provenance: Typed note pasted on front paste-down endpaper: Atlas 1809, used in family of Abraham Staats (1743-1821) of South Bound Brook, N.J.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lewis, Samuel, 1753 or 1754-1822.Barker, W. (William), active 1795-1803.Guthrie, William, 1708-1770. Improved system of modern geography.
- Research Call Number
- Map Div. 97-6054 [LHS 330]