Detail View: JCB Map Collection: [cartouche of map of North America]
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Accession Number:
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36867
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File Name:
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36867-001
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Call number:
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Case B755 /3.3
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Map title:
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[cartouche of map of North America]
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Place of Publication:
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London
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Publisher:
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Printed for Jefferys and Faden, Geographers to the King at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross London
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Publication date:
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Febry. 13th 1755
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Map size height:
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68 cm.
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Map size width:
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49 cm.
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Item description:
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Engraved map on 8 sheets; pasted on guards and bound in boards
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Geographical description:
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Map of North America after the French and Indian War. This section includes the cartouche with angels, native Americans with feather headdress and garments, maize or corn, fishing nets, cocoanut palm, and English royal coat of arms. "Tho: Kitchin, sculp." at lower right. Relief shown pictorially.
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Source author:
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Mitchell, John, 1711-1768
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Source title:
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A map of the British and French dominions in North America with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax ..., by ... Jno. Mitchell
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Source place:
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London: Printed for Jefferys and Faden, Geographers to the King at the Corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross London. Published by the author Febry. 13th 1755 according to Act of Parliament, [ca. 1773]
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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Third edition, second issue, according to Ristow. Revised state of the plate.
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References:
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Ristow, W., ed. A la Carte (Washington, D.C., 1972):110 (3d. ed., 2d. impression); Stevens & Tree 54(d); Phillips, Maps:573; McCorkle, B.B. New England in Early Printed Maps, 755.31
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Geographic Area:
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North America
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Scale 1:
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ca. 2,000,000
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Normalized date:
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1755
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LC bibliographic number:
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b51931862
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Creator:
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Mitchell, John, 1711-1768
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Creator:
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Kitchin, Thomas, d. 1784
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