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A map of some of the south and east bounds of Pennsylvania in America being partly inhabited.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Mapcase G3820 1683 .T46 1943
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- Format:
- Map/Atlas
- Author/Creator:
- Thornton, John, active 1652-1701.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Pennsylvania.
- Maryland--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Maryland.
- Early maps--Facsimiles.
- Early maps.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 map : hand color ; 41 x 50 cm
- Scale [ca. 1:389,908].
- Cartographic Data:
- Scale [ca. 1:389,908].
- Place of Publication:
- [Providence, R.I.] : [John Carter Brown Library], [1943]
- Notes:
- Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings.
- Used by William Penn in his colonialization effort. Cf. Blathwayt atlas.
- Facsimile.
- "From the original in The John Carter Brown Library, 1943."
- "Reproduced in collotype by the Meriden Gravure Company."
- "Cheseapeak Bay" added to map.
- Accompanied by text printed in four columns on a separate sheet (20 x 57 cm.) and pasted to bottom margin of the map; describes the tract of land granted to William Penn.
- Ten species of trees are shown.
- Local Notes:
- Library's copy is framed.
- Cited in:
- Blathwayt atlas (Facsim. ed.), v. 2, p. [102]-108
- Phillips. Maps of America, p. 670
- OCLC:
- 23863236
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