Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Plan de New-York et des Environs
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Accession Number:
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35698
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File Name:
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35698-1
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Call number:
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E755 R311d / 1-SIZE
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Map title:
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Plan de New-York et des Environs
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Place of Publication:
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A Paris
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Publisher:
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Chez le Rouge rue des Grands Augustins
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Publication date:
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1777
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Map size height:
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57.4 cm.
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Map size width:
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49.5 cm.
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Item description:
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engraving
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Geographical description:
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Plan of New York City, mostly present-day downtown Manhattan Island. Includes an inset of the New York harbor with soundings and sea banks or shoals. Cartographic elements include scale, location of roads and dwellings, and compass rose. Also includes location of the memorial obelisk to General Wolfe, a foundry, [King's] College (adjoining Trinity Church), churches, prisons, hospitals, and Fort George. Items in the image are numbered and lettered for identification in key at bottom.
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Source title:
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Recueil des plans de l'Amerique septentrionale
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Source place:
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A Paris : chez le Sr. Le Rouge ingenieur geographe du Roy, et de S.A.S.M. le Comte de Clermont, Rue des Augustins, 1755
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References:
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Cumming, W. P. "The Montresor-Ratzer-Sauthier sequence of maps of New York City, 1766-1776," Imago Mundi, vol. 31, p. 55-65; Phelps Stokes, I.N. Iconography, I, p. 340; Phillips, P.L. Atlases, p. 524
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Geographic Area:
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North America
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Historical notes:
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This plan, originally drawn in 1766 by John Montresor for General Thomas Gage, commander in chief of the British troops in America, is dated 1777, although the imprint date for this atlas is 1755.
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Normalized date:
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1777
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Creator:
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John Montresor
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