BOWLES'S NEW POCKET MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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WITH THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS OF CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, AND OF NEWFOUNDLAND: DIVIDED INTO THE FRENCH AND SPANISH TERRITORIES OF LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA, according to The Preliminary Articles of Peace, Signed at Versailles the 20.th Jan.y 1783
Metadata
Publisher
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Date
1783
Name on Item
LONDON Printed for & Sold by the Proprietor CARINGTON BOWLES, At his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 S.t Pauls Church Yard.
Publisher
Printed for & Sold by the Proprietor CARINGTON BOWLES, At his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 S.t Pauls Church Yard,
Scale
Scale approximately 1:6,336,000
Language
English
Location
British Library
Collection (local)
British Library Collection
Subjects
United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
North America
North and Central America
Extent
1 map : copperplate engraving, hand colour ; 50 x 46 cm
Terms and License
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
Notes
Relief shown pictorially.
State 1 of the map identified by its imprint - Baynton-Williams.
Shows imprint (date) in lower margin.
shows title at centre right.
Inset at lower right with Article III of the Treaty of Versailles.
Shows scale bar at lower centre in British Statute Miles.
Copy at Add Ms 15,535.7. Small red stamp of British Museum to verso. Manuscript addition in ink to map extends the Mississippi River westwards and adds the "Lake of the Woods".