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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: Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline, uncolored pictorial cartouche. On four sheets joined in two pairs (north and south); ovarall 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. Wheat Transmississippi 226. Lot Amendments Condition: A little creasing around the edges, lower margin of southern half with darkening, very good to near fine, quite clean. Item number: 154925