[Map showing Jonathan Carver's travels west of the Great Lakes.]

Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820

[ca. 1769]

[Jonathan Carver]

Scale approximately 1:2,000,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Explorers--United States--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Wisconsin--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Minnesota--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Iowa--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Iowa
• Minnesota
• North and Central America
• United States
• Wisconsin

1 map on 4 sheets : joined, manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 54 x 83 cm

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• Shows scale bar at lower right with one inch equal to 32 miles
• Compare the only known copy of a printed but unpublished version (Add Ms 8949.42.) engraved by Thomas Kitchin of Carver's second manuscript map (Add Ms 8950.102.) - Bosse
• Bequeathed to the British Museum by Sir Joseph Banks.
• Copy at Add Ms 8950.41. Laid on linen. Folds into volume.