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Creator:
Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Title(s):
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.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for Jefferys and Faden, geographers to the King, [1775?]
Physical Description:
1 map on 8 sheets : hand col., mounted on linen ; 135 x 192 cm., sheets 70 x 51 or smaller.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2009 4c
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (71 1755A)
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000].
Notes:
BEIN 71 1755A: Sheets not mounted. Stamp on backing: Yale University Library, Karpinski-Von Wieser Map Collection.
BEIN Covers 71 +1755M: Dissected and mounted on linen. Accompanied by manuscript letter dated July 11, 1823, to Anthony Barclay concerning provenance of map.
Relief shown pictorially.
Fourth ed.
In bottom margin: Publish'd by the author Febry 13th 1755 according to act of Parliament.
Library of Congress. Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 43
Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those coasts."
Subject Terms:
British -- America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878–1956 -- Ownership.
Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection -- Stamp.
North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Wieser, Franz, Ritter von, 1848–1923 -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Maps.
Contributors:
Kitchin, Thomas, 1719–1784.
Jefferys & Faden (London, England)
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