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Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

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

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Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians

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Title
Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians
Additional title: Independent states of North America
Names
Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756 (Cartographer)
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793 (Publisher)
Collection

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

Charts and maps

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1784 (Questionable)
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard,
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 97-6006[LHS 228]
Topics
New York (N.Y.)
Connecticut
New Jersey
Virginia
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Indians of North America
Northeastern States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Genres
Maps
Notes
Content: Described in Henry N. Stevens's Lewis Evans, his map of the Middle British Colonies in America, 2nd ed., 1920, p. 48-50.
Content: Described in Stevens and Tree's Comparative cartography, 29f (Addenda).
Content: Includes notes, distance charts, and inset of "A sketch of the remaining part of Ohio R. &c."
Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 228.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: NYPL copy has ms. notation on verso, upper right corner: 34.
Content: Relief shown pictorially.
Content: Watermark.
Content: Appears in Bowles's universal atlas [1784 and later issues?]
Citation/reference: Phillips 681
Statement of responsibility: by Lewis Evans.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 48 x 64 cm.
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 45255246
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14920087
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 050a4e90-c5d5-012f-bdd9-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1784: Issued
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1784. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-eeac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-eeac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1784). Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-eeac-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Bowles's new pocket map of the following independent states of North America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode Island : comprehending also the habitations & hunting countries of the confederate Indians