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Title: A map of the British and French settlements in North America
Creator: Hinton, John, -1781, cartographer
Contributor: Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1755
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: Kashnor notes, "Locates all the French forts in the Ohio and Louisiana territories. A scarce map, issued as a supplement to a magazine during the Old French War." Variant of 105:662. RLIN record gives date and appeared in information. Shows separate North and South parts of South Carolina. Submap: Fort Frederick at Crown Point built by the French in 1731. [Lake Champlain]. MS note: 297 (on backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned GR Lion rampant in seal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 297 (on backing).
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; hand col. ; 28 x 38 cm., sheet 29 x 39 cm.
Identifier: 093:297 S
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/266
Language: English
Subject: North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
British--America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: [1755]
Place: North America
United States
Canada
W100°
W50°/ N55°
N28°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: 105:662
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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