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Map Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket.

About this Item

Title

  • Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket.

Names

  • Knight, John.

Created / Published

  • [1778]

Headings

  • -  Buzzards Bay (Mass. : Bay)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
  • -  Nantucket Sound (Mass.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
  • -  Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Buzzards Bay (Bay)--Early works to 1800
  • -  Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Nantucket Sound--Early works to 1800
  • -  Coasts--Massachusetts--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  United States--Massachusetts--Buzzards Bay
  • -  United States--Massachusetts--Nantucket Sound

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:100,000.
  • -  Title on verso: Nantucket Shoals and Buzzards's Bay by Lieutt. Knight, 1778.
  • -  Soundings shown in fathoms.
  • -  Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor.
  • -  Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over an undecipherable figure, all of which are over the letters GR and J. Whatman.
  • -  LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 984
  • -  Vault
  • -  AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 650/3; 650/4; 650/5

Medium

  • col. map on sheet 55 x 101 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3762.B8 1778 .K6

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • gm72003569

Online Format

  • image

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