Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali

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Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali
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Title:
Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali
Description:
Shows the east coast from the Gulf of the St. Lawrence to the Carolinas, and the interior as far west as the Mississippi Valley. Displayed here is the first state of the map, lacking the inset of Fort Frederick.
Creator:
Rhode, Johann Christoph, 1713-1786
Contributor:
Berger, Friedrich Gottlieb, b. 1713
Name on Item:
II. foliis comprehensum jussu Acad[emiis] Reg[iis] Scient[iarum] et Eleg[antium] exhibet ; I.C. Rhode Ac[ademiae?] Geogr[aphus?] ; Berger, sculpsit Berol[ini].
Date:
[1755]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
North America--Maps
Places:
North America (area)
Extent:
1 map : hand col. ; 55 x 78 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:
Berlin : Academia Regia Scientiarum et Elegantium Litterarum
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:4,000,000]
Language:
German
Latin
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Date of publication from Tooley, R.V. Tooley's Dict. of mapmakers. 1979.
Prime meridian: [Ferro].
Relief shown pictorially.
Lower left: Nord America I. Blatt ; Lower right: Nord America II. Blatt.
Map in German. Title in Latin.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
06_01_009621