Details

Subject(s)

• East (U.S.)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Middle Atlantic States—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• New England—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ohio River Valley—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Engraver

• Haussard, Catherine [Browse]

Former owner

• Fox, N. B. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—East (U.S.)—1755 [Browse]
• Maps—Middle Atlantic States—1755 [Browse]
• Maps—New England—1755 [Browse]
• Maps—Ohio River Valley—1755 [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• "Avec privilège 1755."
• Title on verso: "Cours de l'Ohyo."
• Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River.
• Shows provinces, counties, towns and cities, riviers, Indian villages and tribal territory, forts, numerous place-names, and relief.
• Appears in the author's Atlas universal. 1757 [i.e. 1758].
• Includes "Supplément pour la Caroline."
• Historic Maps copies 2 and 4 lack title on verso.

Provenance

Historic Maps copies 3 and 4 are from the estate of N.B. Fox, Princeton class of 1899.

References

• LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 718
• Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps 295

Inset title

• Supplément pour la Caroline

LCCN

74693316

OCLC

5402752

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