COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-6501
File Name:
C-6501-001
Call number:
Cabinet A687 1.1a
Map title:
A new mapp of America devided according to the best and latest observations and discoveries, wherein are described by their proper names, the seaverall countries that belonge to ye English which are wholly left out in all French and Dutch maps viz New Scotland. Long Iland. N. York N. Jarsey. Maryland. Pensilvania Carrolina, &c
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
By Philip Lea, at ye Atlas and Hercules in Cheap-side, and by I. Overton at the White Horse without Newgat
Publication date:
[1687?]
Map size height:
48 cm.
Map size width:
56 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map
Geographical description:
One of a set of 4 maps of the continents, each accompanied by a printed index. Title of index: An alphabet of America, and the parts adjacent.
Source author:
Lea, Philip, fl. 1683-1700
Source title:
[Maps of the four continents]
Source place:
[London:] By Philip Lea, at ye Atlas and Hercules in Cheap-side, and by I. Overton at the White Horse without Newgat, [1687?]
Cartobibliographic notes:
One of a set of 4 maps of the continents, each accompanied by a printed index. Title of index to this map: An alphabet of America, and the parts adjacent Revised state of the plate; signs of erasure in imprint address Dedication at upper right, "To His Grace Henry, Duke of Beaufort ..." To right of cartouche, "To this. Europe. Asia. and Africa. are made Tables for finding any Place &c: ..." At lower right, "Philip Lea Excudit." At lower left, "James Moxon Sculp." Inset, at upper left: [North Polar region] The John Carter Brown Library has 2 copies; the second is colored.
References:
Phillips, Maps:106; Phillips, Atlases 4271n; WLCL 2:138; BMPM 8/869; T.C. II:336 (1690); cf. T.C. II:99 (1684) and 158 (1686)
Geographic Area:
western hemisphere
Normalized date:
1687
LC bibliographic number:
b51931217
Creator:
Lea, Philip, fl. 1683-1700
A new mapp of America devided according to the best and latest observations and discoverie...
