Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, drawn from a great number of hydrographical surveys, these charts are followed, according to them executed by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in England

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Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, drawn from a great number of hydrographical surveys, these charts are followed, according to them executed by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in England
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Title:
Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland, drawn from a great number of hydrographical surveys, these charts are followed, according to them executed by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in England
Title (alt.):
Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-kaarten van Noord-America in het groot beginnende van Kaap Charles, of de Golf van St. Laurens, tot aan de Golf van Mexico
Creator:
Keulen, Gerard van
Date:
1783
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Nautical charts--Newfoundland and Labrador--Early works to 1800
Coasts--Newfoundland and Labrador--Maps--Early works to 1800
Grand Banks of Newfoundland--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Extent:
1 chart ; 59 x 108 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
Amsterdam : Gerard Hulst van Keulen
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:1,160,000]
Language:
English
Dutch
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Second of 6 charts bound in a set, apparently an English version of Van Keulen's "Eene verzameling van nieuwe zee-karten van Noord-America," intended for use during the American Revolution.
Prime meridians: Paris, Tenerife, and Greenwich.
Oriented with north to the right.
Depth shown by soundings.
Chart in English. Scale bar in Dutch.
Identifier:
06_01_009617
Barcode:
30000003873544