COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
13763
File Name:
13763-000
Call number:
Shelf C75 BoE 763
Map title:
An accurate map of North America describing and distinguishing the British, Spanish and French dominions on this great continent ; according to the definitive treaty concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763: Also all the West India islands belonging to and possessed by the several European princes and states the whole laid down according to the latest and most authentick improvements by Eman Bowen geogr: to his majesty and John Gibson engraver
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street
Publication date:
[1763]
Map size height:
101 cm.
Map size width:
117 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map, mounted on linen, colored
Geographical description:
Map of North America identifying the 1763 boundaries with those of English colonies extending to the Mississippi River. Inset title: Particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay. Inset title: Passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino ... Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, roads, forts, missions, some industries, trails, trade routes, portages, and vegetation. Also shows Indian villages and tribal territories, routes of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico, and navigational hazards along the coast. Includes historical notes, references to symbols, and notes on territorial claims. Decorative cartouche includes native Americans with furs, beaver, and alligator.
Cartobibliographic notes:
Later state with mention of treaty of 1763 in title. In contemporary slipcase with cloth loops sewn at corners and center sides.
References:
Stevens & Tree, 49(b); BMPM 1/445; Phillips, Maps II:582
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
The extensive annotations in the Atlantic Ocean set forth the various articles of the Paris Treaty, which settled the French & Indian War.
Scale 1:
ca. 5,500,000
Normalized date:
1763
LC bibliographic number:
b53431510
Creator:
Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Creator:
Gibson, John
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