Various plans and draughts of cities, towns, harbours &c

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Various plans and draughts of cities, towns, harbours &c
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Item Information

Title:
Various plans and draughts of cities, towns, harbours &c
Creator:
Conder, Thomas, 1746 or 1747-1831
Name on Item:
drawn from the latest authorities ; T. Conder, sculpt.
Date:
[1778]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
New York Public Library
Collection (local):
Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases
Subjects:
Harbors--New York (State)--New York--Maps
Harbors--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Maps
Harbors--South Carolina--Charleston--Maps
Harbors--Cuba--Havana--Maps
Places:
Havana (province) > Havana
Charleston (county) > Charleston Harbor (bay)
Suffolk (county) > Boston
Delaware River
Extent:
5 maps on 1 sheet ; 15 x 10 cm or smaller, sheet 38 x 25 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:
[London] : [Sold by Alexander Hogg]
Scale:
Scales differ
Language:
English
Table of Contents:
Plan of the harbour of New-York and parts adjacent
The town & harbour of Boston &c.
Draught of the River Delaware from Chester to Philadelphia
Plan of the harbour of Charles Town, South Carolina
Plan of the city & harbour of Havanna, capital of Cuba.
Catalog Record:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f930-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Notes:
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines.
Hand coloring added at later date.
"Engraved for Moore's New and complete collection of voyages and travels."
From John Hamilton Moore's New and complete collection of voyages and travels. 1778. Vol. 2, facing p. 852.
Described in Faupel's Americana 89, no. 195.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.