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A map of the British and French settlements in North America / T. Bowen, sculpt[or].

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[London : s.n., 1755]

NOTES
Relief shown pictorially.

Shows boundaries, rivers, forests, principal settlements and notes.

Prime meridian: London.

Pt. the first. Containing Canada, Nova scotia, Newfoundland, New England, part of New York, with the Lakes, Six Nations, and all the countries westward in the same parallels so far as discover'd; exhibiting the just boundaries, and the French encroachments: laid down from authentic surveys -- Pt. the second. Containing part of New York, Pensilvania, New Jersey, Mary Land, Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and all the countries westward in the same parellels so far as discovered, shewing the course of the Rivers Ohio, Missisipi &c. exhibiting the just boundaries & the French encroachments laid down from authentic surveys.

Reference: Phillips. Maps of America, p. 574

Copy annotated in pencil: From Miscellaneous correspondence ... By Benjamin Martin, 1755-1756. London, 1759. vol. 1. p. 71; Ibid, vol. 1. p. 88

Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000].

SUBJECTS
North America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Great Britain--Colonies--America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
France--Colonies--America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
North America.

RELATED NAMES
Bowen, Thomas, d. 1790.

RELATED TITLES
[Lowery map collection ; 418]
[Lowery map collection ; 419]

MEDIUM
2 maps on 1 sheet : cloth backing ; each 19 x 49 cm., sheet 43 x 52 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3300 1755 .M3 Vault : Low 418, 419

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

DIGITAL ID
g3300 ct000693 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3300.ct000693

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