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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A large navigational chart with both rhumb and grid lines. Several submaps. Submaps of Barrington & Shelburne Harbours, St. Andrew's Harbour. Port of Liverpool, Plan of Cape Canso, Halifax Harbour, (Nova Scotia), St. John's Harbour(Newfoundland), St. John's Harbour(New Brunswick), River St. Lawrence from the English Bank to Quebec, Enlarged view Quebec City, River above Quebec City. List of Lighthouses in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Views of Cape Chat, Mt. Camel, Funk Island, Young Harry Rock, Cape Bonavista. MS 2 upper right.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsVignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 275.
093:275 M
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Kashnor notes, "A fine map, with much detail. It includes New Brunswick, part of Nova Scotia, and the neighboring States of Maine, with the new boundaries, New York, New England, down to Connecticut and Vermont." Kashnor dates as c. 1842. RLIN record suggests [1852?] Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Engraving.
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the old boundaries of Carolina and Virginia, with the coast from Hudson's Straits to the Amazon." Shows false "New Discovered Sea" east of Hudson's Bay. Latitude and longitude observations from several sources compared in tabular form. Kashnor dates as [1775]. Latitude and longitude tables.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 161.
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Kashnor notes, "The first issue of the Morris chart. It is the first separate chart of Halifax Harbour." The publication date is 1775 but Kashnor dates the map at [1760]. Includes sailing directions. Kershaw gives appeared in information and notes this is the second state of Jefferys' map. Detailed sailing directions.. "Survey'd by Order of His Excellency Brigadier General Lawrence, Governour of the Province of Nova Scotia; By Charles Morris, Chief Surveyor, Published by Command of the Rgiht Honourable the Lords of Trade & Plantations, For the Benefit of the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain and its Colonies." "To the Right Honourable George Dunk Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner, and to the rest of the Right Honourable and Honourable Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, This Chart is most humbly Inscribed By their most obliged & obedient humble Sert. Thos. Jefferys." "London Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King." Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Watermark: Crowned fluer-di-lis VI. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Kershaw 821. Verso Text: Ms note: 20.
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Kashnor notes, "An interesting map, showing parts of Canada, with Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia, and the United States east of the Mississippi." Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, English, sea leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis W I. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 114.
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Kashnor notes, "a fine chart, one of the earliest published charts of Newfoundland." Lightly printed. Kashnor dates as ca. 1752. Kershaw notes this plate was used till 1775 when "it was extremely worn and the impressions for several of the last editions are poor." Kershaw gives appeared in information. Submaps: Trinity Harbour; St. Johns Harbour; Chedabucto Harbour in Nova Scotia. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues, Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. References: Kershaw 523. Verso Text: MS note: 562.
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