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MAP #: 271B5

CARTOGRAPHER : BOWLES, CARINGTON [PUBLISHER]

DATE: 1771

SHORT TITLE : A GENERAL MAP OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES, IN AMERICA

REMAINING TITLE & ID : VIZ. VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, PENSILVANIA, NEW-JERSEY, NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, & RHODE ISLAND: OF AQUANISHUONIGY THE COUNTRY OF THE CONFEDERATE INDIANS COMPREHENDING AQUANISHUONIGY PROPER, THEIR PLACES OF RESIDENCE, OHIO & THUCHSOCHRUNTIE THEIR DEER HUNTING COUNTRIES, COUCHSACHRAGE & SKANIADARADE, THEIR BEAVER HUNTING COUNTRIES; OF THE LAKES ERIE, ONTARIO AND CHAMPLAIN. WHEREIN IS ALSO SHEWN THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT SEATS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS; CAREFULLY COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLISH'D AT PHILADELPHIA, BY Mr. LEWIS EVANS. (CARTOUCHE, TOP CENTER). "PRINTED FOR CARINGTON BOWLES AT No. 69 IN ST. PAULS CHURCH YARD, LONDON. PUBLISH'D JAN:y 1. 1771." (BELOW CARTOUCHE). INSET "A SKETCH OF THE REMAINING PART OF OHIO R &c." (LEFT SIDE, ABOVE CENTER). SCALE OF 200 BRITISH STATUTE MILES (TOP LEFT CORNER). TWO PARAGRAPHS FROM THE ANALYSIS ARE ABOVE THE INSET. THERE ARE NO INDEX LETTERS IN THE LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE BORDERS. THREE TABLES OF DISTANCES (BOTTOM RIGHT, IN THE BLANK PART OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AREA). NUMEROUS EXPLANATORY NOTES ARE THROUGHOUT THE MAP. LONGITUDE FROM PHILADELPHIA (TOP BORDER). LONGITUDE FROM LONDON (BOTTOM BORDER). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : R1771 (1755)
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : LONDON
PUBLISHER : CARINGTON BOWLES
LANGUAGE(S) : EN
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 49.3 X 64.5 CM. (BETWEEN OUTSIDE BORDERLINES)
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 2,250,000 (FROM SELLERS & VAN EE)
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : G3710 1771 .E8 VAULT
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : MSA SC1399-356 (REPRO)(ED. 3 - STATE 3)
# 2 : MSA SC1399-606(2) (ED. 1 - STATE 2)
# 3 : MSA SC1399-558 (ED. 2 - STATE 3)
HFC ACQ. PRIORITY : 63
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : - (ED. 3 - STATE 3 REPRO)
# 2 : N015-HE3Q* (ED. 1 - STATE 2)
# 3 : C015-UI2 (ED. 2 - STATE 3)

REGION CATEGORY : A GENERAL MAP OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE TO A MD/CHESAPEAKE COLLECTION (3)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : LEWIS EVANS & DERIVATIVES (18) : FRY & JEFFERSON & DERIVATIVES (15)
: WALTER HOXTON & DERIVATIVES (17)

# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : N IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : YES
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : NONE
CARTOUCHE : SIMPLE PLASTERWORK (14)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : LONDON & PHILADELPHIA (7)
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 255E5, 255E6, 256K5, 258J5, 260B5, 265B5, 268J5, 274B5, 275S5, 275S6, 276P5, 276S2, 276S3, 280B8, 284B5, 292B5, 294L3, 296B5.
BEST INFO SOURCE : STEVENS AND KLINEFELTER ARE THE BEST FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : THIS IS EDITION 3, STATE 3 OF THE LEWIS EVANS MAP OF 1755. SEE MAP # 255E5 FOR A MUCH MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION. STEVENS SAYS THIS IS A SLAVISH COPY IN MOST RESPECTS OF THE KITCHIN-JEFFERYS PIRACY OF THE MAP. IT IS SIMILAR TO STATE 2 EXCEPT THAT THE MAP IS NOW DATED AND THE IMPRINT IS CHANGED TO READ AS SHOWN IN THE TITLE DATA. THE ENGRAVING IS NOT CARRIED OUT INTO THE DOUBLE BORDER LINES AND THE TOP AND BOTTOM AS IN PREVIOUS EDITIONS.

THE MAP IS NOT "CAREFULLY COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHED AT PHILADELPHIA BY Mr LEWIS EVANS", AS STATED IN THE TITLE BECAUSE IT HAS ALL THE ALTERATIONS, OMISSIONS AND "IMPROVEMENTS" OF THE KITCHINS-JEFFERYS EDITION.

DATA IS FROM KLINEFELTER AND STEVENS.

EDITION & STATE INFO : THREE EDITIONS IN A TOTAL OF 19 STATES ARE KNOWN AND OTHERS ARE LIKELY. SOME ARE ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS AND SOME NOT. KLINEFELTER'S STUDY IN THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IS THE BEST SOURCE. WHEAT AND BRUN AND GIPSON ARE GOOD ON EDITION 1. THEY SUGGEST THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN AN ADDITIONAL STATE PRIOR TO STATE 1 OF THAT EDITION, WITH THE INSET OF THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY OMITTED. KLINEFELTER AND STEVENS ARE THE BEST SOURCES ON THE OTHER EDITIONS AND STATES.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A GOOD COPY OF EDITION 1, STATE 2, ATTACHED TO THE ANALYSIS, WITH AN ACQ. # OF N015-HE3Q* AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-606(2). THE COLLECTION ALSO HAS A GOOD COPY OF EDITION 2, STATE 3, IN OUTLINE COLORING, WITH AN ACQ. # OF C015-UI2 AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-558. THE COLLECTION ALSO HAS A REPRODUCTION OF EDITION 3, STATE 3, WITH A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-356(REPRO).

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS RELATING TO THE DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA FORMING A PART OF THE LIBRARY OF E.D. CHURCH, COMPILED AND EDITED BY GEORGE WATSON COLE, 5 VOLS., NEW YORK: 1907: # 1003; EVANS, CHARLES, AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY, 12 VOLS, CHICAGO: 1903-1934: VOL III, 7411-13; MATHEWS, E.B., "THE MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS OF MARYLAND" IN MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, VOL. II PART IIIb, BALTIMORE: THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, 1898: 395-398; MATHEWS, EDWARD B., "BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY OF MARYLAND", IN MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VOL. I, PART IV, BALTIMORE: THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, 1897: 234 (EVANS' ESSAYS), 347 (MAP); STEVENS, HENRY N., LEWIS EVANS, HIS MAP OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA, LONDON: HENRY STEVENS, SON, AND STILES, 1905: 1-20; IDEM, REVISED EDITION, LONDON: HENRY STEVENS, SON AND STILES,1920: 5-16 (INCLUDES REPRODUCTIONS OF ALL ISSUES); PAULLIN, CHARLES O., ATLAS OF THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES, EDITED BY JOHN K. WRIGHT, NEW YORK: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION AND AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, 1932: 171, 298; GARRISON, HAZEL S., "CARTOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA BEFORE 1800", IN PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, 59, 1935: 281-283, 298, 433; GIPSON, LAWRENCE HENRY, LEWIS EVANS BY LAWRENCE HENRY GIPSON TO WHICH IS ADDED EVANS' A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF PENNSYLVANIA. TOGETHER WITH FACSIMILES OF HIS GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND MECHANICAL ESSAYS, NUMBERS I AND II, WHEREIN THE AUTHOR SETS FORTH AN ANALYSIS OF A GENERAL MAP OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES, PHILADELPHIA: HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1939: 295, 297-299; PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA, IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, NEW YORK: BURT FRANKLIN, UNDATED REPRINT OF A 1901 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION: 575; U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REPORT 1930, 174; WINDSOR, JUSTIN, NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA, 8 VOLS., CAMBRIDGE, MASS: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1889: VOL. 5V. 83-84; WROTH, LAWRENCE C. AN AMERICAN BOOKSHELF, 1755: 115-60; KLINEFELTER, WALTER, "LEWIS EVANS AND HIS MAPS", IN TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, VOL. 61, PART 7, PHILADELPHIA: THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, JULY 1971; THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER, VOL. II OF AN AUCTION CATALOG, NEW YORK: PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES, INC., 1967: 606-607, # 819, ILLUS. 607; SCHWARTZ, SEYMOUR I. & RALPH E. EHRENBERG, THE MAPPING OF AMERICA, NEW YORK: HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC., 1980: PLATE 98; THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED, AN EXHIBITION CATALOG, BALTIMORE: WALTERS ART GALLERY, 1952: # 255; PRE-FEDERAL MAPS IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: AN ANNOTATED LIST, COMPILED BY PATRICK D. MCLOUGHLIN, WASHINGTON: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, 1971: # 16 (1755), # 48 (1776); PAPENFUSE, EDWARD C. & JOSEPH M. COALE III, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND, 1608-1908, BALTIMORE: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1982: 34, FIG. 34; SWEM, EARL G., MAPS RELATING TO VIRGINIA IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES, 1989 REPRINT OF A 1914 ARTICLE, REPUBLISHED AS A BOOK: # 187 (1755), # 242 (1776), # 247 (1776), # 347 (1794); SELLERS, JOHN R. & PATRICIA MOLEN VAN EE, MAPS AND CHARTS OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES 1750- 1789, WASHINGTON: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 1981: # 709 (1755- IST STATE), # 710 (1776- 3RD STATE), # 711 (1756- ED. 2 - 1ST STATE), # 712 (1758 - ED. 2 - 2ND STATE), # 713 (1765-1768- ED. 2 - 3RD STATE), # 714 (1776 - ED. 2 - 7TH STATE), # 715 (1765- ED. 3 - 2ND STATE), # 716 (1771- ED. 3 - 3RD STATE); MCCORKLE, BARBARA B., AMERICA EMERGENT, AN EXHIBITION CATALOG, NEW HAVEN: THE BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY OF YALE UNIVERSITY, 1985: # 24, FIG. 24; HOWES, WRIGHT, U.S.IANA (1650-1950), NEW YORK: R. R. BOWKER COMPANY FOR THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, 1962 REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION OF A 1954 PUBLICATION: # 227 (GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS); PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, VIRGINIA CARTOGRAPHY A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION, WASHINGTON: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1896: 49-51, 57; WHEAT, JAMES CLEMENTS & CHRISTIAN F. BRUN, MAPS AND CHARTS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BEFORE 1800 A BIBLIOGRAPHY, LONDON: THE HOLLAND PRESS, LTD., 1978 REVISED EDITION OF A 1969 YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION: # 298 (1755 - ED. 1 - STATE 1), # 299 (1755 - ED. 1 - STATE 2), FRONTISPIECE, ILLUS. OF # 298; LUNNY, ROBERT M., EARLY MAPS OF NORTH AMERICA, NEWARK, N.J.: THE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1961: 27, PLATE XXI (1758 - ED. 2 - 2ND STATE); STEVENS, HENRY & ROLAND TREE, "COMPARATIVE CARTOGRAPHY", IN MAP COLLECTORS' SERIES NO. 39, LONDON: THE MAP COLLECTORS' CIRCLE, 1967: # 29, # 30 (REFERENCES 20 ISSUES); MULKEARN, LOIS, ed., A TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION OF A BOOK BY THOMAS POWNALL DATED 1776, PITTSBURGH: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, 1949: (A REPRODUCTION OF ED. 1, 3RD STATE OF THE EVANS MAP IS ATTACHED); NEBENZAHL, KENNETH, ATLAS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CHICAGO: RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY, 1974: 11, 14-15 (ILLUS. OF ED. 2 - STATE 7).

April 17, 1991


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