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Delaware does not yet exist. Vignette: Traders at dock side. Prime meridian: Washington. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: Virginia 2 No. 7.
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Kashnor dates printing as [1776]. Cartouche: Traders shipping tobacco. Table: Road distances from Williamburg and other Virginia points as recorded by J. Dalrymple in 1755.. Prime meridian: Philadelphia, Curratuck Inlet. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis over GR. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS notes: 589 25 26.
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"Longitude West from London according to an Observation taken at New York by Mr. Burnet in 1723." Vignette: Hudson River. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: Province of New York No. 8. McCorkle map 768.3.
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Famous map of New York State. Vignette: Hudson River scene. Pasted on table of mileage between New York and Philadelphia. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Kashnor notes Mount & Page as publishers and dates as ca. 1750. A poorly printed map. Submap of the Harbour of Trepasseyin. Submap: Harbour of Trepassiyen, Newfoundland.. "To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland &c. This draught is most humbly Dedicated and Presented by their most Obedt. and most humble Servt. John Gaudy." Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leaguea. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 555 penciled square.
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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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