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1151 Oxford Road
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[Notes from Museum Book Store 093:571] Creative cartography. Boston and Cape Cod are shown in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania are truncated. Kashnor dates as ca. 1760. McCorkle dates as 1750. Cartouche: elaborate with Indians and animals. Ms notes: f4x 14. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 14 150204 Sales description attached.
150204
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Kashnor notes, "The map follows the Abraham Goos map of 1625, with the list of adventurers of 1622." Kashnor notes cartographer and date. Appeared in both John Ogilby's America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World, and Montanus's De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld, both published in 1671. Elaborate cartouche, sub figures of Natives and Europeans, two coats of arms. MS note: 186 (on backing). Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
105:186 M
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the Illinois country and Hennepin's route, with the old trading route to Aiaouex, locating the town somewhere in the neighborhood of the present Iowa State at Sioux City." Subview of beavers copied from Moll. Distorted idea of a buffalo. Kashnor dates as ca. 1720. See 093:416 for another copy and source of these notes. View of Niagara Falls copied from Moll; Cartouche with priest and native; Indians with "buffalo" looking more like cows than bison. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 44194. References: McCorkle, map 720.1.
44194
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the Illinois country and Hennepin's route, with the old trading route to Aiaouex, locating the town somewhere in the neighborhood of the present Iowa State at Sioux City." Subview of beavers copied from Moll. Distorted idea of a buffalo. Kashnor dates as ca. 1720. View of Niagara Falls copied from Moll. Cartouche with priest and native. Indians with "buffalo" looking more cowlike than bison. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 416.
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