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Description: Based on a map from Herman Moll's Atlas, this was one of four maps on a sheet entitled "Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali specialibus mappis Londini primum a Mollio edita nunc recusa ab Homannias Hered." Ms note on map "7.70 British Pounds -KK- Extremely rare 3906." Wildly distorted map with the Iroquois Nation covering Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: A 173-? 759 111431.
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Date: [ca 1740]
Call number: 111431
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Kashnor notes map as by Homann, dates as ca. 1740. Based on a map from Herman Moll's Atlas, this was one of four maps on a sheet entitled "Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali specialibus mappis Londini primum a Mollio edita nunc recusa ab Homannias Hered." MS note: 826 (on backing). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: partial. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 826.

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Map of Mexico showing the seat of the war

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A wildly distorted map showing San Francisco to be located a few miles north of present day Las Vegas, Nevada with straight railroads running to New Orleans and "Napolian," a town south of the confluence of the Arkansas River with the Mississippi. (not found on modern maps.) Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

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A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware Counties / by Lewis Evans

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Ms. note on verso reads "To Mr. Peter Colenson from his most humble servt. The Author. Philida. June 29, 1749". This is the earliest known Evans map. See Henry N. Stevens' Third Edition of "Lewis Evans, His Map of the Middle British Colonies in America..." London, 1924, Huntington GA407 E9 S82. This volume also contain the Second Edition of Stevens' work printed in 1920, and a facsimile of a reprint of Evans' map done in 1752 with numerous corrections, known here as 18212a. Views of that map are of Steven's reproduction. Governor Pownall in his "Topographical Description of North America", 1776, notes Evans' 1749 map as "printed at Philadelphia 1749.." Distance table. MS note: 18212. Prime meridian: London, Philadelphia. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.

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New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania. By H. Moll Geographer. 1729

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Detailed description of the postal service and routes between principal cities. See 105:538 for another copy of this map. Detailed postal route and delivery information. MS note: 488 (on backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 488 (on backing).

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A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware Counties / by Lewis Evans

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This is the earliest known Evans map. See Henry N. Stevens' Third Edition of "Lewis Evans, His Map of the Middle British Colonies in America..." London, 1924, Huntington GA407 E9 S82. This volume also contain the Second Edition of Stevens' work printed in 1920, and a facsimile of a reprint of Evans' map done in 1752 with numerous corrections, known here as 18212a. Views of that map are of Steven's reproduction. Governor Pownall in his "Topographical Description of North America," 1776, notes Evans' 1749 map as "printed at Philadelphia 1749." For the 1752 edition of this map, see RB 53261. Distance table. MS note: 18212. Prime meridian: London, Philadelphia. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Stamped: I. MS notes: A 1749 X flat Evans, Lewis - 18212 ; In case with this are: 18213-30, 18193-5.

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New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania. By H. Moll Geographer. 1729

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Detailed description of the postal service and routes between principal cities. See 093:488S for another copy of this map. Detailed postal route and delivery information. MS note: 538 (on backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving.

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