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Map of North America With the European Settlements & whatever else is remarkable in the West Indies, from the latest and best Observations

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Title: Map of North America With the European Settlements & whatever else is remarkable in the West Indies, from the latest and best Observations
Creator: Seale, Richard William, cartographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1745
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "Copied from an old map, and still showing California as an island and La Hontan's River Longue. Locates Po. Sir Francis Drake, M. Nevada, and Mt. St. Martin." RLIN record gives printing location and appeared in information. Kashnor dates ca. 1740, RLIN record suggests [1745?], McLaughlin lists [1745]. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Conic. Watermark: Fleur-di-lis. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: McLaughlin 228; Wheat 124,202; Tooley 97; Leighly 173 (Plate XXIII). Verso Text: MS notes: 105 #241.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map 38 x 47 cm., sheet 39 x 49 cm.
Identifier: 105:241 S
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/10268
Language: English
Subject: North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: ca. 1740
Place: North America North America
W 150°
W 40°/N 65°
N 5°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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