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A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783. Wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments &ca. which compose the British dominions;

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A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783. Wherein are particularly distinguished the United States and the several provinces, governments &ca. which compose the British dominions;

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Scale ca. 1:5,000,000.
Hand colored.
Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: London and Ferro.
LC copy one annotated in black ink.
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 27
Includes historical notes, text, and insets "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "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.
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01/01/1786
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Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
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