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Map Bowles's new pocket map of the Seven United Provinces : with their dependencies

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Title

  • Bowles's new pocket map of the Seven United Provinces : with their dependencies

Names

  • Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774, cartographer.
  • Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
  • Mayer, Johann Tobias, 1752-1830, cartographer.
  • Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874, collector.

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for the Proprietor, Carington Bowles, [1785?]

Headings

  • -  Netherlands--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Netherlands--Administrative and political divisions--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Netherlands

Genre

  • Early maps

Notes

  • -  General-content map of the Netherlands showing the seven constituent provinces.
  • -  Hand colored to distinguish the areas and boundaries of the provinces.
  • -  Prime meridian: Ferro.
  • -  When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 16 panels to enable folding.
  • -  There is no handwritten Millard Fillmore signature on recto or verso.
  • -  LC sheet imperfect: Use-worn, lightly foxed, taped on cloth backing (verso) at fold lines, G&M acquisition rubber-stamping in map area at foot of title.
  • -  Includes table of "Methodical division of the Seven United Provinces" and 3 bar scales.
  • -  Annotated in ink on cloth backing (verso): 132, Seven United Provinces, Holland, 3 (handwritten on small paper adhesive label).
  • -  Vault

Medium

  • 1 map : color, mounted on cloth backing ; 46 x 60 cm, folded to 13 x 16 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G6000 1785 .P3

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018588015

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Palairet, Jean, Cartographer, Carington Bowles, Johann Tobias Mayer, and Millard Fillmore. Bowles's new pocket map of the Seven United Provinces: with their dependencies. [London: Printed for the Proprietor, Carington Bowles, ?, 1785] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018588015/.

APA citation style:

Palairet, J., Bowles, C., Mayer, J. T. & Fillmore, M. (1785) Bowles's new pocket map of the Seven United Provinces: with their dependencies. [London: Printed for the Proprietor, Carington Bowles, ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018588015/.

MLA citation style:

Palairet, Jean, Cartographer, et al. Bowles's new pocket map of the Seven United Provinces: with their dependencies. [London: Printed for the Proprietor, Carington Bowles, ?, 1785] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018588015/>.