Kashnor notes, "The exceedingly rare first issue of Osgood Carleton's map of Maine. It is very valuable for the study of the earliest phase of the Maine boundary, and the location of the land grants of that period." Kashnor dates as ca. 1794. McCorkle states Danforth verified first publication as 1798. "Compiled pursuant to an Act of the General Court, From actual Surveys of the several Towns, &c. Taken by their Order: Exhibiting the boundary lines of the District the Counties and Towns, the principal Roads, Rivers, Mountains, Mines, Islands, Rocks, Shoals, Channels, Lakes, Ponds, Falls, Mills, Manufactures, and Public Buildings, with the Latitudes & Longitudes by Osgd. Carlton." Cartouche: Eagle(?) topped. Prime meridian: Washington. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: McCorkle Me798.1; Wheat & Brun 170; Danforth 1983..
Extent
1 map ; outline col.ed ; 136 x 97 cm., sheet 140 x 101 cm.
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