A map of North America

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Title: A map of North America
Creator: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Bowles, John, 1701-1779
Delarochette, L. (Louis), 1731-1802, creator
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774
Published / Created: 1765
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for John Bowles
Description: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
BEIN 2003 Folio 85: No. 1 of 45 maps bound together with binder's spine title: Atlas of America; ms. table of contents. Bookplate: Robinson. Bookplate of Paul Mellon.
by J. Palairet, with considerable alterations & improvements from d'Anville, Mitchell & Bellin, by L. Delarochette.
Differs from other copy in coloration. Only boundaries are colored, emphasis is on showing the internal boundaries of British America.
Hand colored.
Includes historical notes and table of Methodical divisions of North America.
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,
Longit. west from Ferro I.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church yard, London.
Relief shown pictorially.
Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000].
Sterling copy stamped on verso: Yale, Horace Brown, 1900S.
Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 47 x 57 cm.
Language: English

Access: Public
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