Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies & in North America. By T. Pownall...
Call Number
Oversize Lapidus 5.2438f
Oversize 1053.734f
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6395wj54z
Publisher
London, J. Almon, 1776.
Language
English
Date Created
1776
Extent
vi, 46, 16 p. front. (fold. map) ; 42 cm. (2⁰).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Evidently formerly owned by the Newberry Library, per dealer's description.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T97733
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
The map has title: A map of the middle British colonies in North America. First published by Mr. Lewis Evans...in 1755; and since corrected and improved, as also extended, with the addition of New England, and bordering parts of Canada: from actual surveys...By T. Pownall...
The original map was published at Philadelphia in 1755 in connection with a pamphlet by Evans having the following title: Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays. The first, containing An analysis of A general map of the middle British colonies in America...The "Topographical description", in addition to the map, includes numerous extracts from this essay of Evans.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy, instead of Evans map, has 'A general map of the southern British colonies in America, comprehending North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, with the neighboring Indian countries, from the modern surveys of Engineer de Brahm, Capt. Collet, Mouzon, & others, and from the large hydrographical survey of the coasts of East and West Florida' by Bernard Romans, 1776.
The 8 final leaves contain the appendices and have separate pagination and register.
Appendix: 1. The account of Capt. Anthony Van Schaick of the ground between the entrance of lake Chaplain at Crown point, and the mouth of Otter creek.--II. Captain Anthony Van Schaik's journal, 1756.--III. Captain Hobb's account of the way from No. 4. in New Hampshire, to the mouth of Otter creek.--IV. Extracts from the journal of Captain Harry Gordon...who was sent from Fort Pitt...to Illinois, in 1766.--V. Extract from Mr. Lewis Evan's journal. 1743.--VI. A journal of Christopher Gist's journey, began from Col. Cresap's at the old town of Potomack river, Maryland, October 31, 1750, continued down the Ohio, within 15 miles of the falls thereof; and from thence to Roanoak river in North Carolina, where he arrived May 19, 1751; undertaken on account of the Ohio company...
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Modern red quarter calf; red marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
New England—Description and travel
Middle Atlantic States—Description and travel
Ohio River Valley—Description and travel

Physical Characteristics

File Count
81

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

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