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A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands. Divided according to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the 20th of Jan. 1783. wherein are particularly distinguished the Thirteen Provinces wich [sic] compose the United States of North America.

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A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands. Divided according to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the 20th of Jan. 1783. wherein are particularly distinguished the Thirteen Provinces wich [sic] compose the United States of North America.

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Scale ca. 1:6,750,000.
Hand colored.
Prime meridian: Ferro and London.
Relief shown pictorially.
"N.B. The letters E, F, S, D, Da, annexed to the names of the islands, denote them to belong either to the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, or Danes, &c."
Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay.--The passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit; between the years 1698 and 1701, before which, and for a considerable time since California has always been described in all charts & maps as an island.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
AACR2: 100; 651; 700

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01/01/1784
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Lotter, Matthäus Albrecht, 1741-1810.
Lotter, Georg Friedrich.
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