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A new map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783 ; wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments & ca. which compose the British dominions

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Title

A new map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783 ; wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments & ca. which compose the British dominions

Collection

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases
Charts and maps

Names

Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805 (Compiler)
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) (Publisher)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1783-08-15
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer and Jno. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street ...

Library Location

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 97-6106 [LHS 483]

Subjects

West Indies -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800

Genres

Maps

Notes

Content: Includes historical notes, text and decorative cartouche.
Content: Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay -- The passage by land to California, discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino.
Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 483.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Prime meridians: Ferro and London.
Content: Relief shown pictorially.
Statement Of Responsibility: laid down according to the latest surveys and corrected from the original materials of Goverr. Pownall, Membr. of Parliamt., 1783.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 100 x 116 cm., sheets 55 x 122 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 49848414
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15409754
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 307ec120-c5d5-012f-3450-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1783-08-15

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783 ; wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments & ca. which compose the British dominions" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1783. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/307ec120-c5d5-012f-3450-58d385a7bc34

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1783). A new map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783 ; wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments & ca. which compose the British dominions Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/307ec120-c5d5-012f-3450-58d385a7bc34

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new map of North America with the West India Islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783 ; wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments & ca. which compose the British dominions" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/307ec120-c5d5-012f-3450-58d385a7bc34

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