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Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the British Empire therein with the limits and boundaries of the United States as also the dominions possessed in that quarter, by the Spaniards, the French & other European states, the whole compiled from the best surveys and authentic memoirs which have appeared to the present year, 1783.

Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, Printed for Carington Bowles, 1783.

NOTES
Scale ca. 1:5,500,000.

Hand colored.

Prime meridian: Ferro.

"Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783."

Includes historic notes.

Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays [ca. 1:18,000,000]--A map of the country between Montreal, Albany and Oswego [ca. 1:2,360,000]

Reference: LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 100

SUBJECTS
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
North America.

RELATED TITLES
New map of North America.

MEDIUM
col. map 101 x 115 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3300 1783 .B6 Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3300 ar010000 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3300.ar010000

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