Content: Annotated with yellow and red color to show lighthouses.
Content: Backed with blue paper.
Content: Includes notes and 7 panoramic views of sections of the coastline.
Content: Insets: The harbor of New York -- The harbor of Boston -- The harbor of Halifax.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: NYPL copy has ms. notes in ink on verso: Chart of the coast of America from Philadelphia to Halifax Harbor. 63.
Content: Oriented with north toward the upper right.
Content: Relief shown pictorially and with hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Content: "Longitude west from London."
Statement Of Responsibility: by Wm. Heather, 1809 ; Stephenson, engraver.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 75 x 208 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 47100479
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15063057
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 76b88640-c52a-012f-0809-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1809-11-01

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new chart of the coast of America from Philadelphia to Halifax Harbor" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1809. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76b88640-c52a-012f-0809-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1809). A new chart of the coast of America from Philadelphia to Halifax Harbor Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76b88640-c52a-012f-0809-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A new chart of the coast of America from Philadelphia to Halifax Harbor" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/76b88640-c52a-012f-0809-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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