COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-7710
File Name:
C-7710-000
Call number:
Cabinet Ck79 CaO
Map title:
The United States of America laid down from the best authorities agreeable to the peace of 1783
Place of Publication:
Boston
Publisher:
I. Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street
Publication date:
[1791]
Map size height:
82 cm.
Map size width:
11 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map, colored
Geographical description:
Map of the United States of America after the Treaty of Peace of 1783 with much of the present area of Maine in rectangular subdivisions; the boundary as drawn claims much of New Brunswick for the United States. Similar divisions occur in western New York of lands belonging to "Messrs. Gorham & Phelps," and in eastern Ohio, adjacent to "Army Lands.". In the title ellipse is a statement, signed "Osgood Carleton teacher of mathematics," beginning "This map and chart is neither a plain, Mercators, nor globular projection; the author finding that on a globular map, the superficies is contracted, on Mercators it is (in high latitudes) protracted much beyond its true measure, and on the plain chart distorted quite out of its true form; to avoid these false appearances as much as possible he has aimed at a mean of the three ..." Compass indicator off Cape Hatteras; numerous soundings, off Nova Scotia and New England especially, and at extreme right a legend "Note the variation of the compass in Boston Bay and off Cape Cod is now nearly as set down on the map but it is set on most other places as it was observed several years since."
Cartobibliographic notes:
State 1. Made up from the impressions, seemingly, of 7 different plates, joined long since.
References:
Phillips, Maps, p. 864; Evans 23250 (and 23638?); Wheat and Brun 119; WLCL 1/145; McCorkle 791.1
Geographic Area:
North America
Normalized date:
1791
LC bibliographic number:
b53976319
Creator:
Carleton, Osgood, 1742-1816
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