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Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection

50 Linear Feet

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

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Chart containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian discoveries to the north : with the peninsula of Kamchatka, in Asia, opposite thereto; and islands, dispersed over the Pacific Ocean, to the north of the line 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section 4

Sheet three of Green's A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia. Shows nautical exploration routes. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations.

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

Paul Stevens map collection

26 Sheets

The collection contains 26 maps of the New World, dating 1541-1778, which illustrate the progression of European geographic knowledge about Virginia and North America from the 16th through the 18th centuries

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Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh, Equestris ordinis Viri, Anno Dn̄i. MDLXXXV regni Vero Sereniss. nostræ Reginæ Elisabethæ XXVII, hujus vero Historia peculiari Libro descripta est, additis etiam Indigenarum Iconibus 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section 3

"Theodore De Bry's engraving of John White's manuscript map was the first finely-detailed view of a North American landscape. It depicts English claims to "Virginia," which at the time encompassed both modern Virginia and North Carolina. Created in the wake of the failed English settlement at Roanoke Island, De Bry's color engraving visualizes English understanding of indigenous political communities such as the Secotan, Chawanook, and Weapemeoc peoples. At right, the ships heading into the Chesapeake Bay suggest future pathways for settlement and commerce." -- Mapping the "New World": Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection

The north part of America : conteyning Newfoundland, New England, Virginia, Florida, New Spaine, and Noua Francia w[i]th ye riche isles of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rieco, on the south, and upon ye west the large and goodly iland of California. The bonds of it are the Atlantick Ocean on ye south and east sides ye South Sea on ye west side and on ye north Fretum Hudson and Buttons Baye a faire entrance to ye nearest and most temperate passage to Japa[n] & China 1 Sheets Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section 3

The first printed map in English to show California as an island, with flat northern coast.

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