[Coast of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida from Charleston to St. Augustine]

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

[1770?]

Scale approximately 1:1,090,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Coasts--Southern States--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• South Carolina--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Georgia--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Florida--Maps, manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Florida
• Georgia
• North and Central America
• South Carolina
• United States

1 map : manuscript and pen and ink with watercolour ; 40 x 31 cm

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• About 1770 date from British Museum manuscript maps catalogue.
• Shows roads.
• Shows "Fort Argyle", "Fort Diego" and "Frederica".
• Shows graticule lines.
• With a decorative compass rose in "THE ATLANTICK OCCEAN".
• A manuscript note in an unidentified hand in the British Museum manuscript maps catalogue (Maps C.21 bb.3) suggests De Brahm as cartographer - this would in turn indicate a date of production earlier than about 1770.
• Compare Maps K.Top.122.65.
• Titled "A drawn Map of the Coast of South Carolina and Georgia, from Charlestown to St. Augustine" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled "A colored map of the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, from Charlestown southward to St. Augustine; drawn about 1770: 1 f. 3 1/2 in. x 1 f." in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.