Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan., From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, Dec., 1754, v. 15, pg. 241., and Relief shown pictorially.
"Tom. XIV. in 4°, no. 9. Tome 14. in 8°, page 97." in lower margin., Appears in Jean François de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages. 1780., Covers the area from Penobscot Bay to Chesapeake Bay and west to Lake Erie., Prime meridian: Paris., Relief shown pictorially., Shows provices, towns, forts, rivers, Indian tribal territory, and relief., and Watermark.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified],
Subject (Geographic):
Middle Atlantic States--Maps--Early works to 1800. and New England--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
La Harpe, Jean-François de, 1739-1803. Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages.
North-American pilot for New England, New York, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
Description:
A Scale of 5 "English Miles" is given below the title at upper left., Below the scale: The Light-House of Sandy Hook is 40d. 27m. North Latitude., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., Depths shown by soundings. Relief shown by hachures., First state., Includes note., Issued separately and in the first edition of Sayer & Bennett's North American Pilot for New England, New York, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia. 1777., Sailing chart of the area around New York Harbor and Long Island; centered on Staten Island, York's Bay and Constable Point, extending north to Hells Gate, New York Island, Netwon Inlet, Bushwick Inlet, Wallabout Bay, Crown Point, the Battery and Ship Yards and south to the Shrewsbury River. The map extends East to include Amboy and the Raritan River, noting (Samuel?) Holland's House and east to Jamaica Bay and Plumb Island., and Watermarks.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer & John Bennett, sea chart & map-sellers, No. 53, in Fleet Street. Published as the Act directs,
Subject (Geographic):
Atlantic Ocean--Lower Bay, Atlantic Ocean--Upper Bay, New Jersey--Sandy Hook, New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) Maps--Early works to 1800., New York Region--Maps--Early works to 1800., and Sandy Hook (N.J.)
Subject (Name):
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), printmaker, printseller
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts, Nautical charts--Hudson River Estuary (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800., Nautical charts--Lower Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800., and Nautical charts--Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)--Early works to 180
Course of the river Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres
Description:
From Thomas Jeffery's The American atlas. 1775. Also published in Faden's North America Atlas, 1777., Imperfect: torn along fold. Title in manuscript on verso., Map of the Mississippi River Valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Fort Chartres, Illinois. Covers the Mississippi Valley from the Delta of the Mississippi where it joins the Gulf of Mexico to Fort Chartres., Prime meridian: New Orleans., Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings., Scale of "Sea Leagues, 20 to a Degree"; and "British Miles, 69 1/2 to a Degree" below the imprint., Second issue. The first issue appeared in 1772. This 1775 issue has many changes in the area around New Orleans including the addition of forts St. Leon and St. Mary. Shows Baton Rouge and Lake Pontchartrain., The first official English survey of the Lower Mississippi, and one of the most historically significant American maps, delineating the British gains from France in the French and Indian War and later establishing the future western boundary of the new United States., The map includes detail of the lands to the immediate east of the Mississippi including numerous tributary rivers: the Pearl River, the Yasous River, the Chickasaw River, and the Ohio River. The locations of tribal lands and villages are noted, as well as alliances, roads to reach the villages, and the number of soldiers for several villages. Some tribes delineated in the map include the Arkansas, Chocktaw, Chicasaw, Yazoo, Wiapes, and Caskaskias., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. Publishd as the Act directs,
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River Valley--Maps--Early works to 1800. and Mississippi River--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771. American atlas. and Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Appeared in Alexis Hubert Jaillot's Atlas, Relief shown by hachures and pictorially., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Chez l'auteur, le Sr. Jaillot, Geographe ordinaire du Roy, avec Privilege de sa Majesté,
Subject (Geographic):
Charente-Maritime (France)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps--Early works to 1800. and Charente-Maritime (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Haye, G. de la and Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712. Atlas françois.
Appears in: Atlas novus, sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia et provincias exhibentes ... Augsburg : Matthaeo Seuttero, [1745?] 2 v. (Vol. 1, map no. 143)., Includes a large decorative cartouche showing natives processing sugar, flanked by turtles and a mermaid., and Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings.
Publisher:
[M. Seutter,
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756. Atlas novus, sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia et provincias exhibentes
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782, cartographer
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
50 1767
Container / Volume:
BRBL_00271
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Cartographer and publication date from dealer's notes., Country labels in French., Inset: Supplement pour l'Asie et l'Afrique., Relief shown pictorially., Shows most of the Middle East, and part of Egypt., Stamp on verso: 27., and Watermark.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified],
Subject (Geographic):
Middle East--Maps--Early works to 1800, Palestine--History--To 70 A.D.--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Palestine--Maps--Early works to 1800
Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France
Container / Volume:
BRBL_00731
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Lower left corner: 34., Prime meridian: Paris., Sheet measures 23 x 46 cm. Franklin Collection., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pierre-François Giffart],
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama--Maps--Early works to 1800, Florida--Maps--Early works to 1800, Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Maps--Early works to 1800, Louisiana--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Mobile Bay (Ala.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761 and Giffart, Pierre François, 1677-1758
Subject (Topic):
Coasts--Alabama--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Florida--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Coasts--Louisiana--Maps--Early works to 1800
Chart of the coast of Mauritania and the Western Sahara from Cape Blanco north., Printed at lower right corner is the number "34," indicating the plate number from J. van Keulen's De neuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel,, and With north oriented towards the left.
Publisher:
Joannes van Keulen aende nieuwen-brugh inde gekroonde Loots-man,
Subject (Geographic):
Mauritania--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Keulen, Johannes van, 1654-1715. Neuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel
"Cum Gratia et Privil. S.R.I. Vicariatus in partibus Rheni, Sveviae et juris Franconici.", Ornamental cartouche decorated with coats of arms and mythical figures., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermark. Manuscript number in right corner: 24. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection.
Publisher:
[Mattheus Seutter]
Subject (Geographic):
France--Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps--Early works to 1800., and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
