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A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands. Divided according to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the 20th of Jan. 1783. wherein are particularly distinguished the

Scale ca. 1:6,750,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Relief shown pictorially. "N.B. The letters E, F, S, D, Da, annexed to the names of the islands, denote them to belong either to the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, or Danes, &c." Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay.--The passage by land to California discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit; between the years 1698 and 1701, before which, and for a considerable time since California has always been described in all charts & maps as an island. AACR2: 100; 651; 700

Date
1784
Mapmaker / publisher
Lotter, Matthäus Albrecht; Lotter, Georg Friedrich
Place
North America
Scale
1:6,750,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
13,753 × 12,414 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

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"A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands. Divided according to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris the 20th of Jan. 1783. wherein are particularly distinguished the" (1784). Lotter, Matthäus Albrecht; Lotter, Georg Friedrich. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_correct_map_of_North_America_with_the_West_India_Islands._Divided_according_to_the_last_Treaty_of_Peace,_concluded_at_Paris_the_20th_of_Jan._1783._wherein_are_particularly_distinguished_the_LOC_74693195.jpg

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