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Title(s):
The North-American pilot for Newfoundland, Labradore, the Gulf and River St. Laurence : being a collection of sixty accurate charts and plans / drawn from original surveys, taken by James Cook and Michael Lane, surveyors, and Joseph Gilbert, and other officers in the King's service ... ; chiefly engraved by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King ; on thirty-six large copper-plates.
Additional Title(s):
Title page, volume 2: North-American pilot for New England, New York, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia
Published/Created:
London : Printed ... and sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett ... MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (2 volumes) : 35 maps ; 56 cm (folio)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2024 33
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ
Notes:
"(Part the second.) North-American pilot for New England, New York, Pensilvania, Maryland, and Virginia; also, the two Carolinas, and Florida. Drawn from original surveys, taken by Capt. John Gascoigne, Joshua Fisher, Jacob Blamey, and other officers and pilots in his Majesty's service. Containing ... [index of maps]"--Title page, volume 2.
Depths shown by soundings.
Each volume includes an index of charts and plans.
List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 1209
BAC Folio B 2024 33: Bound in contemporary marbled boards.
Subject Terms:
Coasts -- Atlantic Coast (North America)
Coasts -- Newfoundland and Labrador.
Coasts -- Saint Lawrence, Gulf of.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Maps.
Saint Lawrence River -- Maps.
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of -- Maps.
Form/Genre:
Pilot guides.
Nautical charts.
Atlases.
Contributors:
Cook, James, 1728–1779.
Lane, Michael, active 1768–1784.
Gilbert, Joseph, 1731–1831.
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), printer, bookseller.
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