The coast of a part of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia, and part of North Carolina &c. with the banks, roks, soundings, shoals, currents, & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of actual surveys and other materials

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The coast of a part of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia, and part of North Carolina &c. with the banks, roks, soundings, shoals, currents, & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of actual surveys and other materials
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Title:
The coast of a part of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia, and part of North Carolina &c. with the banks, roks, soundings, shoals, currents, & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of actual surveys and other materials
Title (alt.):
Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-kaarten van Noord-America in het groot beginnende van Kaap Charles, of de Golf van St. Laurens, tot aan de Golf van Mexico
Creator:
Keulen, Gerard van
Date:
1784
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Nautical charts--New England--Early works to 1800
Nautical charts--Middle Atlantic States--Early works to 1800
Coasts--New England--Maps--Early works to 1800
Coasts--Middle Atlantic States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
New England (area)
Middle Atlantic (area)
Extent:
1 chart ; 59 x 106 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:
Amsterdam : Gerard Hulst van Keulen
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:1,170,000]
Language:
English
Dutch
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Fourth of 6 charts bound in a set, apparently an English version of Van Keulen's "Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-karten van Noord-America," intended for use during the American Revolution.
Prime meridians: Paris, Tenerife, and Greenwich.
Depth shown by soundings.
Inset: A plan of the city of New York.
"These charts are followed, according to them executed by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in Engeland..."
Chart in English. Scale bar in Dutch.
Identifier:
06_01_009615