Bowles's new pocket map of the United States of America : the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland with the French and Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida as settled by the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles the 20th. Jany. 1783

Bowles's new pocket map of the United States of America : the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland with the French and Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida as settled by the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles the 20th. Jany. 1783

New pocket map of the United States of America.

London : Printed for & sold by the proprietor, Carington Bowles ..., 1784.

1 map : hand colored ; 48 x 52 cm. folded in 14 x 13 cm.

MAP L2009F74m

(OCoLC)05402710

"Published as the act directs 12 April 1784."
Scale ca. 1:6,250,000.
Prime meridian: Ferro and London.
Relief shown pictorially.
Inset: Article III.
Depicts the United States with its new boundaries as determined at the end of the revolutionary war by the Treaty of Paris.
In 16 sections rebacked onto linen; in original publisher's marbled paper slipcase.
Ms. title on slipcase: United States of America; publisher's advertisement pasted on back of slipcase.
Ms. inscription on slipcase: "Presented to E.W. by Wm. H. Sayre 12/21/1839."; this copy was once part of Thomas W. Streeter's collection.

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