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A survey of the northern neck of Virginia ; the courses of the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack, in Virginia, as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737

Description: A reduced photo-lithograph of an earlier map. "...being the Lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Farifax Baron Cameron, bounded by & within the Bay of Chesapoyocke and between the Rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack." The only published mention of the Litho-Photographic Institute in London is in The journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume 38, May 11, 1868, page 190. The publication date is based on this. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: HL sticker: 128020 MS note: 128020.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [circa 1870]
Call number: 128020
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A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron Cameron, bounded by & within the Bay of Chesapoyocke and between the Rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack : with the courses of the Rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack, in Virginia as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737
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No old shelf mark. An early reproduction. The only published mention of the Litho-Photographic Institute in London is in The journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume 38, May 11, 1868, page 190. The publication date is based on this. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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At head of title: "Headquarters Corps of Engineers, War Department." For another copy see RB 127677; for the top half of the original 1857 map on which this is based, see RB 49791; for a reduced reproduction of the original 1857 map, see RB 342277. Cover has sticker from Henry R. Wagner's library. Submap: Territory of Alaska ceded by Russia to the United States 1868. Authority Table. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: 43236 Maps -US U. S. Eng Dept. ... Terr. of the U.S. N.Y. 1868.
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