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An accurate map of the District of Maine being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts : compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c. taken by their order : exhibiting the boundary lines of the district, the counties and towns, the principal roads, rivers, mountains, mines, islands, rocks, shoals, channels, lakes, ponds, falls, mills, manufactures and public buildings, with the latitudes and longitudes &c.

Title
An accurate map of the District of Maine [cartographic material] : being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts : compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c. taken by their order : exhibiting the boundary lines of the district, the counties and towns, the principal roads, rivers, mountains, mines, islands, rocks, shoals, channels, lakes, ponds, falls, mills, manufactures and public buildings, with the latitudes and longitudes &c. / by Osgd. Carleton.
Author
Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816
Publication
Boston : Published and sold by O. Carleton & J. Norman, sold also by Wm. Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street, [1795]

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Additional Authors
  • Norman, John, 1748?-1817
  • Norman, William, -1807
Description
1 map; 133 x 94 cm
Alternative Title
Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US081.1.01
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Hand-colored illustrations.
  • Intaglio prints.
  • Maps.
  • Early maps.
Note
  • Prime meridian: Washington.
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • "N.B. As the surveys of some towns were not so full as others the roads & streams of those towns have been unavoidably discontinued."
  • Dated 1795 by Evans.
Indexed In (note)
  • Evans, C. American bibliography
  • Wheat, James Clements. Maps and charts published in America before 1800 (rev. ed.)
Call Number
Map Div. 77-2374
OCLC
681477704
Author
Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816, cartographer, issuing body.
Title
An accurate map of the District of Maine [cartographic material] : being part of the commonwealth of Massachusetts : compiled pursuant to an act of the general court, from actual surveys of the several towns &c. taken by their order : exhibiting the boundary lines of the district, the counties and towns, the principal roads, rivers, mountains, mines, islands, rocks, shoals, channels, lakes, ponds, falls, mills, manufactures and public buildings, with the latitudes and longitudes &c. / by Osgd. Carleton.
Imprint
Boston : Published and sold by O. Carleton & J. Norman, sold also by Wm. Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street, [1795]
Cartographic Data
Scale [ca. 1:390,000] (W 71°5ʹ--W 66°30ʹ/N 47°39ʹ--N 42°58ʹ).
Type of Content
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
sheet
Indexed In:
Evans, C. American bibliography, entry 28391
Wheat, James Clements. Maps and charts published in America before 1800 (rev. ed.), entry 170
Local Note
NYPL Map Div. copy hand colored along county boundary lines and international boundary lines.
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Place of Publication
United States Massachusetts Boston.
Added Author
Norman, John, 1748?-1817, publisher.
Norman, William, -1807, publisher.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 77-2374
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