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1. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A map of the British colonies in North America : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho.: Kitchin, sculp.

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Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:
[1775?]
Physical Description:
1 map on 8 sheets : hand col., mounted on linen ; 135 x 192 cm., sheets 70 x 51 or smaller.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The roads from London to Norwich, Cambridge, Ely & Kings Lynn [cartographic material] : comg. at Puckeridge in the Chester Road : also from Oxford to Cambridge / Thos. Bowen sculpt. Fleet Street.

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Creator:
Bowen, Thomas, -1790
Date:
[1775?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 15.8 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

4. Map of England and Wales.

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Creator:
Ogilvy, Catherine
Date:
circa [1800?]
Physical Description:
1 map : silk embroidery on linen ; 49 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A general map of England & Wales, divided into its counties.

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Date:
circa [1800?]
Physical Description:
1 map : embroidery on linen ; sheet 61 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts