COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
9681
File Name:
9681-000
Call number:
Cabinet Es776 ByJ (2)
Map title:
Plan of the island of Dominica laid down by actual survey under the direction of the honorable the commissioners for the sale of lands in the ceded islands by John Byres chief surveyor 1776
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
S. Hooper, No. 25 Ludgate Hill
Publication date:
Novr. 1st 1776
Map size height:
154 cm.
Map size width:
91 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map on 3 sheets, colored
Geographical description:
Map of the island of Dominica. Certificate of Commissioners signed, Wm. Young, Wm. Hewitt, Rt. Wynn. For key to numbers see Byres, John, References to the plan of the island of Dominica, as surveyed from ... 1765 to 1773 ..., London, 1777. "[I]. Bayly Sculp. London."
Cartobibliographic notes:
The John Carter Brown Library has 2 copies; the second copy is colored, dissected and mounted, in contemporary slipcase: 154 x 91 cm. Printed label on verso and on slipcase, "Sold by W. Faden Geographer to His Majesty and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales No. 5 Charing Cross."
References:
BMPM 3/579; WLCL 1:132; JCBAR, 1966-1967:48-9
Geographic Area:
Caribbean
Normalized date:
1776
LC bibliographic number:
b54057425
Creator:
Byres, John
Creator:
Bayly, John Abraham, fl. 1755-1794
Plan of the island of Dominica laid down by actual survey under the direction of the honor...
