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A map of the State of Pennsylvania. / by Reading Howell.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Serials Director's Room Pennsylvania archives 3rd ser. App. 1-10
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Format:
Map/Atlas
Author/Creator:
Howell, Reading, 1743-1827.
Contributor:
Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania--Administrative and political divisions--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
Landowners--Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
Landowners.
Real property--Pennsylvania--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles.
Real property.
Genre:
Maps
Physical Description:
1 map : col. ; 96 x 163 cm.
Scale [ca. 1:295,000].
Cartographic Data:
Scale [ca. 1:295,000].
Place of Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa. : Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1896]
Notes:
The dedication below the title cartouche reads " To Thomas Mifflin Governor, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this map is respectfully inscribed by the author".
At the top center of map is a copyright statement beginning: "District of Pennsylvania to wit. be it remembered, that on the eleventh day of January in the fifteenth year of the independence of the United States of America, came Reading Howell ... "
According to Wheat and Brun, the map was published from four plates and each plate was published over a period of time.
From the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, appendix 1-10.
Relief shown by hachures.
OCLC:
55719040

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