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Kashnor notes, "A rare chart issued for the use of commanders of War-ships and transports during the American Revolution. Engraved on available blank spaces are minute instructions as to sailing into various harbours and the Chesapeake appears to have been of vital importance, for there is no doublt that copies Were used during operations around Phildelphia." Submap of Herring Bay in Maryland. See also 105:814 for an apparently earlier copy of this map. RLIN record gives appeared in information. Submap: Plan of Herring Bay, in Maryland.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Plane. Watermark: CroWned fleur-di-lis over IVC VI . Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 441 3 sheets.
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Table of longitude and latitude for principal points on the map. Comments on Gulf Stream temperature differences. Submap: The islands and Kays from Booby Rocks to Hog Island (New Providence Island). Vignettes: Seven views of island profiles.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsVignettes. Verso Text: MS notes: 391 4.
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Kashnor notes, " The first edition of Norman's Pilot, and excessively rare." Eleven charts bound together. "The Pilot was reissued in 1794 and 1798 by William Norman, of which only the 1798 issue was known to Sabin. This only contains nine charts. There is no bibliographic record of another copy of this first issue of 1791." McCorkle refers to this edition also. See submaps.. Printing Process: Letterpress . References: McCorkle 791.4.
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See also 105:796M. One map on four sheets. Submaps: Chart of the Coast of Biruquete, Panama & Verugua; Chart of the Virgin Islands.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 719 36 36* 36** 36***.
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