COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
(A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Southern section)
Obj Height cm:
51
Obj Width cm:
117
Scale 1:
5,300,000
Note:
Engraved map in outline color. Printed on 2 sheets. Shows forests, banks, forts, Native American villages, trading posts, mines, salt pits, sailing courses, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset map, "A passage by land to California. Discovered 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," and geographic notes on map. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. David Rumsey Collection copy mounted as 1 sheet.
Reference:
P4300; Lowery, 657; cf Wheat, 196 (1783 ed.)
Full Title:
(A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Southern section. Divided according to the Preliminary Articles of Peace, signed at Versailles, 20. Jan. 1783, wherein are particularly distinguished the United States, and the several provices, governments &ca. which compose the British Dominions; laid down according to the latest surveys, and corrected from the original materials, of Goverr. Pownall, Membr. of Parliamt., 1783). London, printed for Robt. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, no. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs August 15th 1786.
List No:
0411.041
Page No:
31
Series No:
43
Pub Date:
1790
Pub Title:
A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790).
Pub Reference:
P4300.
Pub Note:
Late issue. Many of the maps are double sheet. This atlas was later expanded to become the New Universal Atlas (see David Rumsey Collection copy). Some of these maps also appeared in the American Atlas by Jefferys. There are actually 23 large maps, on 35 connected sheets, produced from 62 copper plates. Maps are hand painted with outline and full color and bound in half leather tan marbled paper covered boards with "General Atlas" stamped in gold on the spine. Inscription inside front cover in pen-and-ink: R. Sayer pub, 53 Fleet ... 8th, 1791 ...
Pub List No:
0411.000
Pub Maps:
35
Pub Height cm:
55
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
0411041
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2005
Publisher Location:
London
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Type:
Atlas Map
World Area:
North America
Region:
California, Gulf of
Publication Author:
Kitchin, Thomas
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Pownall, Thomas
Date:
1786
(A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Southern section)
