Detail View: JCB Map Collection: A Mapp of Virginia Mary-Land, New-Jarsey, New-York, & New England
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Accession Number:
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8189
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File Name:
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8189-10
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Call number:
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Cabinet Blathwayt 10
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Map title:
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A Mapp of Virginia Mary-Land, New-Jarsey, New-York, & New England
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Place of Publication:
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London
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Publisher:
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By John Thornton at the Sundyall in the minories and by Robert Greene at ye Rose and Crowne, in Budg-rowe.
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Publication date:
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[1678-79]
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Map size height:
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52.6 cm.
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Map size width:
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43.7 cm.
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Item description:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Geographical description:
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Chart of Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and New York City harbor. Cartographic elements include rhumb lines, sea banks or shoals and soundings, lines of latitude and longitude, scale, and compass rose. Includes an inset map of New England. Decorative elements include English royal coat of arms of Charles II, ships, animals, and fish. Decorative cartouche is flanked by two native Americans with bow, pipe, bighorn sheep, and deer. Also includes a squirrel.
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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The Blathwayt Atlas is a collection of 48 maps assembled between 1680 and 1685 as a reference atlas for the Office of Trade and Plantations, compiled by William Blathwayt, Secretary to the Lords of Trade and Plantations.
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References:
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Black, J.D., ed. Blathwayt Atlas, vol. II, p. 75-81
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Geographic Area:
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North America
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Normalized date:
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1678
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