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Title: A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the 20th of Jan. 1783. wherein are particularly distinguished the thirteen provinces wich [sic] compose the United States of North America

Dates

• Issued: 1784
• Coverage: 1784
• Coverage: 1784 to 1784

Publishers

• Mathew Albert and George Frederic Lotter (Augsburg? Ger)

Summary

Shows the north american continent from New South Wales to Central America including boundaries of the original thirteen United States, European possessions in the West Indies, towns, forts, indian villages, roads, rivers and mines.; Title from title block.; Relief shown pictorially.; Hand colored.; Prime meridian: London (W 1150∞0'--W 430∞0'/N 484∞5'--N 33∞0').; Includes additional longitudinal coordinates measured west from Ferro (W 97∞-W 25∞).; Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay -- The passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit; between the years 1698 and 1701, before which, and for a considerable time since California has always been described in all charts & maps as an island.; "N.B. The letters E, F, S, D, Da, annexed to the names of the islands, denote them to belong either to the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, or Danes, &c."; Includes illustrations, compass rose, and decorative spray which borders "The Scales" and "Explanation."; Includes key to symbols, "Explanation."

97 x 112 centimeters on sheets 585 x 72.3 centimeters

Scale varies approximately 1:9,504,000-1:5,702,400

General Map Collection

Subjects

• Historical Geography
• 18th Century
• 2022-creator-sprint
• FixedBBoxes
• bboxSprintJune2023
• Maps

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-97.000,-58.000,51.000,29.000)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

• Access rights: Public
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Citation

Lotter, Matthäus Albrecht, 1741-1810. A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the 20th of Jan. 1783. wherein are particularly distinguished the thirteen provinces wich [sic] compose the United States of North America. Mathew Albert and George Frederic Lotter (Augsburg? Ger). https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll230:881

Format

JPEG

Languages

• eng