Date based on latest dated map, map of London, bound near end. NN Citation/Reference: Variant of Phillips 554 Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 329. NYPL copy includes ms. contents list on prelim. leaf. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Relief shown pictorially. lacking; title and imprint from trimmed publisher's broadside pasted on front paste-down endpaper. NN Imprint on map: Printed and sold by Tho. Bowles next ye Chapter House in St Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and by I. King at ye G
Date based on latest dated map, map of London, bound near end. NN Citation/Reference: Variant of Phillips 554 Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 329. NYPL copy includes ms. contents list on prelim. leaf. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Relief shown pictorially. lacking; title and imprint from trimmed publisher's broadside pasted on front paste-down endpaper. NN Imprint on map: Printed and sold by Tho. Bowles next ye Chapter House in St Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey near Stocks Market. Includes descriptive text, coat of arms with dedication dated 1715, and note in inset about an event of 1730. Insets: A view of ye industry of ye beavers of Canada ... the cataract of Niagara ... --- A draught of ye town and harbour of Charles-town -- A map of the principal part of North America. -- A map of the improved part of Carolina with the settlements &c. -- South part of Carolina and the east part of Florida ... Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection. NYPL copy has handwritten in ink on verso, in upper right near fold: 8. Prime meridian: London. Stevens & Tree. Comparative cartography, 55c; A new and exact map of the dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America : containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina
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