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Map Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the Spaniards, the French & other European states, the whole compiled from the best surveys and authentic memoirs which have appeared to the present year, 1783.

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Title

  • Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the Spaniards, the French & other European states, the whole compiled from the best surveys and authentic memoirs which have appeared to the present year, 1783.

Names

  • Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.

Created / Published

  • London, Printed for Carington Bowles, 1783.

Headings

  • -  North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  North America

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:5,500,000.
  • -  Hand colored.
  • -  Prime meridian: Ferro.
  • -  "Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783."
  • -  Includes historic notes.
  • -  Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays [ca. 1:18,000,000]--A map of the country between Montreal, Albany and Oswego [ca. 1:2,360,000]
  • -  LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 100
  • -  Vault
  • -  AACR2

Medium

  • col. map 101 x 115 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3300 1783 .B6

Repository

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

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • gm71005458

Online Format

  • image

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Bowles, Carington. Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the Spaniards, the French & other European states, the whole compiled from the best surveys and authentic memoirs which have appeared to the present year. London, Printed for Carington Bowles, 1783. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005458/.

APA citation style:

Bowles, C. (1783) Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the Spaniards, the French & other European states, the whole compiled from the best surveys and authentic memoirs which have appeared to the present year. London, Printed for Carington Bowles. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005458/.

MLA citation style:

Bowles, Carington. Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the Spaniards, the French & other European states, the whole compiled from the best surveys and authentic memoirs which have appeared to the present year. London, Printed for Carington Bowles, 1783. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gm71005458/>.