PLAN D'ALIPHAX ET DE LA BAYE

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PLAN D'ALIPHAX ET DE LA BAYE
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Item Information

Title:
PLAN D'ALIPHAX ET DE LA BAYE
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[1750?]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Harbors--Nova Scotia--Halifax--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Halifax (N.S.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Canada > Halifax
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 23 x 43 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified]
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999732
Notes:
Date attributed on some stylistic grounds. However, Citadel Hill does not show any fortifications (first established 17549) although batteries are shown on George Island (Fort Charlotte was built 1750).
Sounding depths are given.
Relief is shown by shading.
No units are given for the scale at lower right - is shows only "ECHELLE DE 2853". Previous British Library cataloguing assumed "1853 pas geometriques". 2853 toises seems more likely (scale approximately 1:55,000)?
Shows title at lower right with descriptive navigational directions (in French) beneath.
Names "Portsmouths" instead of Dartmouth.
Names "Fort St Jerome" for Fort Sackville (established 1749).
Copy at Add Ms 57,702.3. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "3" in pencil at upper right. Shows manuscript addition in pencil of "A40" in pencil at lower right. White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 1". Additional manuscript addition in pencil to verso showing "A" above a blue label showing "A 28/71". A further manuscript addition in pencil to verso shows "15". Paper watermark shows "IV"?
Notes (date):
9999