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U.S. territory is shown as extending to 54°40' in western section. Exploration in the Arctic extends west to Melville Island. Original color has bled through to back. MS note: 71144. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 1829. References: Mapping the Transmississippi West, Carl I. Wheat, map 386 (v. 2, p. 96)
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Kashnor notes, "Shows New Albion, all the territory northward of the Missouri and Oregon as part of British Territory." This map appears to be a later edition of 105:266 by Wilkinson. It now shows Vancouver Island as Quadra and Vancouver's Island. New mountains appear in the west and the map extends further south. Kashnor dates as c. 1796. MS note: 267 (on Backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the western coast from old California to Alaska and Icy Cape, locating Port Vancouver, San Francisco, Monterey, and other California towns; also shows the Missouri and its tributaries from Lewis' map. Locates all the forts of the company in Hudson Bay territory." Note "Longitude West of Greenwich" is shown on the map, but the 0° longitude line is at 180° and values proceed eastward from that point. Unexplained crosses along coastline from Cape Mendocino northward. Upper right, partial sticker "No. -". Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 562.
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Kashnor shows author as [N. Salmon, 1753] and notes engraved by J. Gibson. RLIN record suggests printing date as late as 1780. MS note: 342 (on backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: VI. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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A map in two sheets. Mexico extends through California and Texas. Vignettes: White House; Capitol; Tables of population and distances. Prime meridian: Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 264296.
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"J & C. Walker Sc." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 765 30.
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