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MapMappe-monde, carte universelle de la terre : dressée sur les relations les plus nouvelles soumises aux observations astronomiques des mrs. de l'Academie royale des sciences et de leurs correspondences Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations and text, and ten astronomical diagrams. LC copy mounted on contemporary paper, printed with a military registration form. Annotated on verso: Mappemonde 1755. Barbier Villemeioh Chaumol [?]. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Nolin, Jean Baptiste
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapL'Amérique : dressée sur les relations les plus récentes, rectifiées sur les dernières observations : dédiée et présentée à sa Majesté très chrestienne Louis XV Scale ca. 1:16,000,000 at the equator. "Avec privilège du Roi 1755." Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. LC copy has text and ill. sheets pasted on in margin. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes text, notes, and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 700/2- Contributor: Nolin, Jean Baptiste - Dubercelle, F. - Crépy (Firm)
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapA map of the British and French settlements in North America Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests, principal settlements and notes. Prime meridian: London. Copy annotated in pencil: From Miscellaneous correspondence ... By Benjamin Martin, 1755-1756. London, 1759. vol. 1. p. 71; Ibid, vol. 1. p. 88 List of maps of America in the Library of Congress, p. 574 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Bowen, Thomas
- Date: 1755
- Resource: Image
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MapA map of the British and French dominions in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements Relief shown pictorially. First Dutch edition. Includes text and ill. LC copy incomplete: Lacking 4 sheets (2 upper left sheets and 2 upper and lower right sheets) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault Acquisitions control no. 21-84- Contributor: Mitchell, John - Mortier, Corneille - Cóvens, Jean
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapA new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain. With the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys; and other materials regulated by many … Scale ca. 1:1,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. Lawrence Valley region to Montreal. Includes table of sources of observations. Accompanied by the author's Explanation for the new map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain, with the adjacent parts of New England and Canada. 24 p. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a…- Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapA new map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain. With the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys; and other materials regulated by many … Scale ca. 1:1,900,000; English marine leagues 20 to a degree; English miles 69 1/2 to a degree. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. Lawrence Valley region to Montreal. LC copy imperfect: Left margin wanting. Includes table of sources of observations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault…- Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapL'Isthme de L'Acadie, Baye du Beaubassin, en Anglois Shegnekto, environs du Fort Beausejour Relief shown by land form drawings. depths shown by spot heights. LC copy imperfect: Fragile, liquid staining along left edge. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
- Date: 1755
- Resource: Image
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MapA plan of Chignecto (called also by the French Beau-Bassin) at the head of the Bay of Fundi upon the Istmus of Accadia shewing that harbour with its rivers, the situation of … Shows region of Fort Lawrence and Fort Beauséjour in Chignecto Isthmus. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapA general map of the middle British colonies, in America; viz. Virginia, Mariland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island: Of Aquanishuonîgy, the country of the Confederate Indians; comprehending Aquanishuonîgy proper, … Scale ca. 1:2,270,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. "Sold by R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, London, & by the author in Philadelphia." Includes inscription to "Thomas Pownall, Esqr.," numerous notes, especially concerning inland water communications and natural resources, 3 distance charts, and inset of "A sketch of the remaining part of Ohio R. &c." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 709 Available…- Contributor: Pownall, Thomas - Dodsley, Robert - Evans, Lewis - Turner, James
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Copy 1 - Image
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of KoneKtikut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and … Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored counties and townships borders, divided individually in 2 halves, cloth backing. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. "November 29, 1755 published according to Act by Thos. Jeffreys Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales near Charing Cross." Includes compilation data and insets of "Fort Frederik," scale approximately 1:1,680 and "A Plan of Boston Harbor from an Accurate Survey,"…- Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1755
- Resource: Image
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and … Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored, sectioned in 2, mounted on cloth. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. "November 29, 1755 published according to Act by Thos. Jeffreys Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales near Charing Cross." Includes compilation data and insets of "Fort Frederik," scale approximately 1:1,680 and "A Plan of Boston Harbor from an Accurate Survey," scale approximately 1:150,000. Library of…- Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1755
- Resource: Image
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MapA map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina. Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ..." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1428 Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye. 1st. 1755." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2- Contributor: Jefferys, Thomas - Fry, Joshua - Jefferson, Peter
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapPlano de la Ysla de Santo Domingo, parte de las Cuba, Jamaica y otras contiguas a ellas, del seno mexicano. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermarks: IV; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Mounted on cloth backing. Also shows roads and villages. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 478 Inset: Plano de la ciudad de Sto. Domingo y su río. Annotated in black ink in upper right corner: N. 5. J.F.B. Order number annotated in pencil in lower margin: 367883/27. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right…- Contributor: Mejía, Juan Viz - Badaraco, Joseph Francisco - Real Escuela De Navegación (Cádiz, Spain)
- Date: 1755-01-01
- Resource: Image
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CollectionGeneral Maps This category includes maps that typically portray the physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area at a particular point in time. The maps in this category show a geographic area larger than a city or town and do not display a subject that is part of one of the thematic categories.- Date: 1290
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ArticleGeneral Atlases General Atlases Ortelius Atlas Abraham Ortelius Theatrvm orbis terrarvm. An important part of the Geography and Map Division holdings is its atlas collection, consisting of more than fifty-three thousand atlases. One of the most valuable- Date: 1544