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A map of North America

Scale ca. 1:15,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. "Longit. west from Ferro I." Differs from other copy in coloration. Map is colored in to show the extent of British America, and the Spanish and French territory. "Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London." Includes historical notes and table of "Methodical divisions of North America." Vault AACR2: 651/1; 650/2; 700/1; 700/2; 700/3

Date
1765
Mapmaker / publisher
Delarochette, L. (Louis); Palairet, Jean; Bowles, Carington; Bowles, John; Delarochette, L
Place
North America
Scale
1:15,000,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
7,129 × 5,935 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"A map of North America" (1765). Delarochette, L. (Louis); Palairet, Jean; Bowles, Carington; Bowles, John; Delarochette, L. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_North_America,_LOC_74694149.jpg

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