Les principales forteresses, ports &c. de l'Amérique septentrionale [map].

Author
Cóvens et Mortier [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • French
  • English
Published/​Created
[Amsterdam : Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, ca. 1745?]
Description
  • Scales differ. (W 83°00ʹ00ʺ--W 53°45ʹ00ʺ/N 47°15ʹ00ʺ--N 9°30ʹ00ʺ).
  • 18 maps on 1 sheet : hand col. ; 17 x 15 cm. or smaller, sheet 48 x 80 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Relief shown pictorially and depths shown by soundings.
  • Appears in Covens & Mortier's Atlas Noveau, contenant toutes les Parties du Monde.
  • In lower right margin: I.K. s.
Language note
In English, with title in French.
Contents
  • The harbour of Placentia
  • The harbour of Anapolis Royal
  • Boston Harbour
  • New York and Perthamboy Harbours
  • The town and harbour of Charles Town in South Carolina
  • Harbour of St. Augustine
  • The Harbour of Providence
  • The Havana
  • Bay of St. Iago in Cuba
  • A plan of the harbour of Port Antonio in Jamaica
  • Fort Royal in Martinica
  • The Island of Barbadoes
  • Antigua
  • Kingston Harbour in Jamaica [with the fort's plan in inset]
  • The Bermuda or Summer Islands
  • Curaçao
  • Cartagene on the coast of New Spain
  • Harbour of Porto Bello.
Provenance
Historic Maps copies 1-3 from the estate of N. B. Fox, Class of 1899.
References
Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, II, p. 55
OCLC
45059577
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