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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
America Septentrionalis Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Title from plate 17. Originally published as 1 map on 20 sheets. LC copy bound. Index map bound-in. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Includes notes, dedication, 4 views, and 17 harbor insets. Stamped in blue ink on verso of plates: U.S. Coast Survey...- Contributor: Baron, Bernard - Popple, Henry - Austen, Stephen - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Lemprière, C. (Clement) - Willdey, Thomas
- Date: 1733-01-01
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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
America Septentrionalis Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Title from plate 17. Originally published as 1 map on 20 sheets. LC copy bound. Index map bound-in. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 Sheet of paper (25 x 19 cm.) listing the numbered plates mounted on preliminary leaf. On title cartouche (plate 17): C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron, sculp. Available also through the Library...- Contributor: Seale, Richard William - Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Baron, Bernard - Popple, Henry - Lemprière, C. (Clement)
- Date: 1733-01-01
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MapMap of the City of New Orleans as it was on May 30, 1725.
Plan de la ville de la Nouvelle Orléans en l'état quelle étoit le 30 may 1725 New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and named in honor of the regent of France, Philippe d'Orléans (1674--1723), who awarded the monopoly to exploit the adjacent colony to John Law and the Compagnie d'Occident (Company of the West). Located on the Mississippi River, near where it flows into the Gulf of Mexico, the town became the capital of...- Date: 1725-01-01
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MapMap of Fort Pontchartrain in Canada, on the Strait of Lake Erie.
Plan du Fort Pontchartrain en Canada situé sur le bord du détroit Erié Fort Pontchartrain, located at the straits of Lake Erie and Lake Saint-Clair in what is today the city of Detroit, Michigan, was established in 1701 by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, a French military officer. It was named in honor of France's navy minister, the Comte de Pontchartrain. Lamothe Cadillac was something of a visionary megalomaniac who hoped to make the post "the Paris...- Date: 1732-01-01
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MapSpecial Karte von den Mittleren Brittischen Colonien in Nord Amerika. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Some place names in English. From Christian Leiste's Beschreibung des Brittischen Amerika zur Ersparung der englischen Karten. Wolfenbüttel, 1778. Prime meridian: London. Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Old Maps and Prints Acquisitions control no. 2004-057
- Contributor: Pingeling, T. A. (Thomas Albrecht) - Leiste, Christian
- Date: 1778-01-01
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MapMap of the Two Natchez Forts Captured in February 1730 by the French, Choctaw, Tunica, Acolapissa, and Houma.
Plans des Deux Forts des Natchez Assiegez au mois de fevrier 1730 Par les Français Tchactas Tonicas Colapissas et Oumas. La présente carte levée sur les lieux à l'Estime faite et dessinée a la N.lle Orleans Le six avril mil sept cent trente This plan shows the site of the two forts captured by the French in February 1730 as part of their response to a massacre by the Natchez late the previous year. The conflict between the French and the Natchez had its origins in disputes over land. The Compagnie d'Occident (later the Compagnie des Indes) had established several tobacco plantations in the environs of Fort...- Date: 1730-01-01
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MapCarte coloriée du royayme de France Catalog Record Only List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 2994 ga10 to revise unk81033209 upgraded to RDA and LCCN 2021588581 replaced (ga15 2021-01-25)
- Contributor: Robert De Vaugondy, Didier
- Date: 1778
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MapA map of the British and French settlements in North America Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests, principal settlements and notes. Prime meridian: London. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 574 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Copy annotated in pencil: From Miscellaneous correspondence ... By Benjamin Martin, 1755-1756. London, 1759. vol. 1. p. 71; Ibid, vol. 1. p. 88
- Contributor: Bowen, Thomas
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapA map of the British and French settlements in North America Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. From: Scots magazine. 1755, v. 17. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 66 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes brief text summarizing the English claim to North America. Mounted on paper, mounted on cloth. Margins trimmed. Minor staining.
- Contributor: Phin, Thomas
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapPlan of the Natchez Fort, Blockaded by the French on January 20, 1731, and Destroyed on the 25th of Said Month.
Plan du fort des Sauvages Natchez blocqué par les François le 20e janvier 1731 et détruit le 25 du dit mois This plan by an unknown author shows the site of the Natchez siege of January 1731, which had its origins in disputes between the Natchez and the French colonists over land. The Compagnie d'Occident (Company of the West) had established several tobacco plantations in the environs of Fort Rosalie (close to present-day Natchez, Mississippi), near several Indian villages. On November 28, 1729, the Natchez...- Date: 1731-01-01
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MapMap of the Western Ocean and Part of Northern America Drawn up to Record the Travels in 1720 of Father Charlevoix of the Society of Jesus in Canada, Louisiana and Saint-Domingue.
Carte de l'océan occidental et partie de l'Amérique septentrionale dressée pour l'intelligence du journal du voyage que le R.P. de Charlevoix de la Compagnie de Jesus a fait en 1720 au Canada, à la Louisiane & à St Domingue Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix was a French Jesuit priest who made a voyage to America in 1720-22. He had already taught in Quebec in 1705-9 and then was recalled to France. He departed Rochefort for New France on July 2, 1720, and arrived in Quebec on September 23 of that year. From there, he traveled to Montreal, Ontario, Niagara Falls, and as far as Lake...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - Desbrulins, F.
- Date: 1744-01-01
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MapMap of the Whole of Guiana or the Savage Coast, and the Spanish West Indies at the Northern End of South America.
Kart van geheel Guajana of de Wilden-Kust This 18th-century Dutch map, produced in Amsterdam by the publisher Isaak Tirion (circa 1705--circa 1769), shows the northern coast of South American and its offshore islands, including Curaçao, Bonaire, and neighboring islands; Trinidad and Tobago; and Grenada. Guiana is divided, from west to east, into Spanish, Dutch, and French sections, corresponding roughly to a part of present-day Venezuela and present-day Guyana, Suriname, and French...- Contributor: Tirion, Isaak, 1705 1769
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapA map of the British empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch settlements adjacent thereto
Title in upper margin: Nouvelle carte particulièr de l'Amérique ou sont exactement marquées les provinces suivantes comme la Caroline Meridionale, la Floride, la Louisiane, le Mexique, le Jucatan, le Guatimala, le Darien, & une partie de Cuba Catalog Record Only Covers Carolina to Costa Rica. Relief shown pictorially. English and French. In lower right corner: XCIV. "Course of the Spanish Galeons from Vera Crux to the Havana to avoid the Trade Winds." Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569. Record replaced; original record (BIBID 18530451) was causing distribution failures.- Contributor: Cóvens Et Mortier - Popple, Henry
- Date: 1733
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MapMap of Mexico City.
Plano de la ciudad de México Dated 1720, this map was produced by the government of Mexico City in order to improve urban sanitation through the collection of garbage. It shows the central part of the city in detail, including names of streets, plazas, hospitals, hospices, columns, small squares, arches, and other places.- Contributor: Rivera, Miguel - Alvarez, Antonio
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapA map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto
America Septentrionalis Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569 Relief shown pictorially. Index map to Popple's larger, 20 sheet map of the same name. Includes 4 inset views, 18 inset maps, ill., and note. Fold-lined. Annotations in pencil in lower margin. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Transfer ; LC Manuscript Division.- Contributor: Toms, W. H. (William Henry) - Popple, Henry - Harding, Samuel
- Date: 1733-01-01
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MapMap of the Colonies of Suriname and Berbice.
Landkaart van de Volkplantingen Suriname en Berbice This 18th-century map shows the Dutch plantations in Suriname and Berbice. The map is oriented with the north at the bottom. The names ascribed to locations outside the neatly demarcated plantations suggest resistance to Dutch domination by local Indians, indentured servants, and slaves imported from Africa. They include several places marked "rebel villages," "village of runaways," and "village of rebel slaves." The inset map...- Date: 1700-01-01
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MapMap of the Fortress of Mozambique with New Works Projected for Better Defense.
Planta da fortaleza de Mosse. [Moçambique] com as novas obras projectadas para melhor defença This manuscript map shows the fortress of San Sebastian on the Island of Mozambique, a small but strategic island off the coast of the African mainland. The fortress was built in the 16th century by the Portuguese, who developed the island into a major trading port. The structure was constructed in an Italianate style out of local materials, and incorporated an intricate system of...- Date: 1741-01-01
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MapThe British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing the French encroachments through all the British plantations from Nova Scotia down to the Gulf of Mexico.
British and French dominions in North America Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Includes "short narrative of the French encroachments upon the British territories in North America." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Shapero Gallery Acquisitions control no. 2004-80- Contributor: Bowles, Thomas - John Bowles & Son
- Date: 1758-01-01
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MapA map of the British empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch settlements adjacent thereto
Carte particulière de l'Amérique septentrionale Relief shown pictorially. English and French. In upper right corner: XC.I. Second state, ca 1741. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 569. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes 22 local area insets and notes.- Contributor: Cóvens Et Mortier - Popple, Henry
- Date: 1741-01-01
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MapGuiana and Caribana.
Guiana, verdeelt in Guiana en Caribana This map of part of the northern coast of South America is a Dutch version of a map originally produced around 1650 by Nicolas Sanson (1600--1667), royal geographer to Kings Louis XIII and XIV, and commonly known as the father of French cartography. Numerous editions copied from Sanson were printed in the early 18th century. The map covers the region from the island of...- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1700-01-01
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MapThe American atlas or, a geographical description of the whole continent of America : wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands, and chiefly the British colonies : ...
Geographical description of the whole continent of America Catalog Record Only Map no. 5-6 "New and correct map of North America ..." is dated 1777. The index indicates maps 5-6 as published in 1776. Includes index. LC copy imperfect: Not bound. Title page and index page wanting. LC copy has photocopies of title page and index page. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 1166- Contributor: Holland, Samuel - Jefferys, Thomas - Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
- Date: 1777
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MapThe Dutch Republic, Enlarged and Edited: Produced with the Care and Work of Matthaeus Seutter.
Belgium Foederatum auctius et emendatius / edit cura et studio Matthaei Seutteri This map of the United Provinces of the Netherlands was engraved by Matthaeus Seutter (1678-1757), an engraver and publisher from Augsburg, Germany. Seutter studied printing in Nuremburg and in Augsburg, as an apprentice to Jeremias Wolff, before setting up his own printing house in 1710. Seutter generally enlarged and engraved the work of others but did very little drawing of original maps. This map...- Contributor: Lotter, Tobias Conrad - Seutter, Matthaeus
- Date: 1730-01-01
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