Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Carte generale et particuliere de la colonie d'Essequebe & Demerarie située dans la Guiane en Amérique rédigée et dédiée au comité des colonies & possessions de la Republique Batave en Amérique, & a la côte de Guinée par le major F. von Bouchenroeder
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Accession Number:
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C-6861
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File Name:
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C-6861-001
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Call number:
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Cabinet Gm798 BoF
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Map title:
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Carte generale et particuliere de la colonie d'Essequebe & Demerarie située dans la Guiane en Amérique rédigée et dédiée au comité des colonies & possessions de la Republique Batave en Amérique, & a la côte de Guinée par le major F. von Bouchenroeder
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Place of Publication:
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Amsterdam
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Publisher:
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chez Wouter Brave
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Publication date:
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1798
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Map size height:
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62 cm.
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Map size width:
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97 cm.
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Item description:
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Engraved map
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Geographical description:
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Map of the colony of Essequibo and Demerara in present day Suriname. "Carte de la Colonie d'Essequebe & Demenarie," titling in upper margin. Differential coloring of plantations indicates land cultivated, fallow or abandoned; and save in the last case, the product (coffee, sugar, cotton, cocoa, rice or tobacco) cultivated there. Mills, brickworks, churches, Indian villages, forts, militia posts, communication canals included in key along with this economic information. With long note on the natural vegetation, on a simulated scroll at upper left center. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Decorative cartouche includes palm-trees, shells, pineapple, tobacco. Approximately 1/4 of the map at upper right is "Continuation de la Riviere Demerarie, Essequebe, et Mazaronie," corresponding to where the main map ends at upper left: within a border line, but to same scale. Upon it is placed the inset. "Echelle de 6000 Verges, chaque Verge de 12 pieds Rhenans" at lower right. Inset at upper right, within frame line of "Continuation de la Riviere Demerarie, Essequebe, et Mazaronie": Carte generale [of Guyana, including the lower courses of the Berbice, Demerara, Essequibo, Ponmaron, and Orinoco rivers]. Accompanied by 2 broadside sheets.
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Source author:
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Bouchenroeder, Friedrich von, fl. 1795
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Source title:
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Carte generale et particuliere de la colonie d'Essequebe & Demerarie située dans la Guiane en Amérique rédigée ...
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Source place:
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A Amsterdam: chez Wouter Brave,1798
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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First proof: "Premiere Epreuve" under lower border line, extreme right.
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References:
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Koeman, Surinam, no. 273; Phillips, Atlases 2721, no. 55 (repro.); BMPM 3/168
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Geographic Area:
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South America
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Scale 1:
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190,080
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Normalized date:
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1798
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LC bibliographic number:
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b54106606
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Creator:
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Bouchenroeder, Friedrich von, fl. 1795
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Creator:
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Turpin, J.
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