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Title: A New Map of the Whole Continent of America, Divided into North and South and West Indies. Wherein are Exactly Described the United States of North America, as well as the several European Possessions according to the Preliminaries of Peace signed at Versailles Jan. 20 1783. Compiled from Mr. d'Anville's Maps of that Continent... & Corrected in the several Parts belonging to Great Britain from the Original Materials of Governor Pownall... Author: Laurie & Whittle Place: London Publisher: Laurie & Whittle Date: 1794 Description: Engraved map, full color, colored pictorial cartouche. On four sheets joined in two pairs (north and south); overall approx. 103x118 cm. (40½x46½"). Very large, detailed map of North and South America at the close of the 18th century, with good detail in the east and southwest of North America, but the western portions still largely blank; in the northwest, the coast is shown with fair accuracy, but only as far as Queen Charlotte's Isles. California boasts a R. de los Delores flowing westward into Puerto de la Bodega el Cordon, also identified as Sr. Francis Drake's Harbour 1579, and well north of that is Pta. de los Reyes. To the south, R. del Carmel plunges into the sea just north of S. Diego. In the left-hand portion of the southern sheet is a large table giving colonial possessions, and below that a large inset of Baffin's and Hudson's Bays, Greenland, etc. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: A New Map of the Whole Continent of America Divided into North and South and West Indies. Wherin are exactly Described The United States of North America as well as The Several European Possessions according to the Preliminaries of Peace at Versailles Jan. 20, 1783. Compiled from Mr. D'Anville's Maps of that Continent with the additions of the Spanish Discoveries in 1775 to the north of California & Corrected in theSeveral Parts belonging to Great Britain from the Original Materials of Governor Pownall, M.P. London. Publish'd by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 12th. May 1794. | [inset:] The Supplement to North America containing the Countries adjoining to Baffin & Hudsons Bays | The Continennt and Islands of America as Divided and Possessed as follows viz. [table] | Scales [6 linear scales] | Watermark: Fleur-de-lys, Heawood 1861. Provenance: California Book Auction, 3/29/90 References: Wheat Transmississippi 226. Lot Amendments Condition: A few minor marginal chips and tears; horizontal folds one of which has a short split; very good or better, nicely colored. Item number: 267419