Map Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale. Kaart van de Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste land van Noord America. Copy 2

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Title

  • Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale. Kaart van de Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste land van Noord America.

Names

  • Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750.
  • Ottens, J. (Josua), 1704-1765.
  • Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.

Created / Published

  • Amsterdam, Chez R. et J. Ottens, geográphes, 1755.

Headings

  • -  North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  North America

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:7,000,000.
  • -  Relief shown pictorially.
  • -  Hand colored.
  • -  Prime meridian: London and Île de Fer.
  • -  Based on Jean Palairet's Carte des possessions angloises françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1755.
  • -  LC copies 1 and 3 has some French forts circled in red.
  • -  LC copy 2 only boundaries are colored.
  • -  LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 58
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  LC copy 2 accompanied by Jean Palairet's Beknopte beschryving der Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste-land van Noord-America. 1755. 72 p. (Vault Shelf)
  • -  Vault
  • -  AACR2: 100; 651; 700/1; 700/2

Medium

  • col. map 42 x 57 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3300 1755 .O8

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 74692883

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ottens, R, J Ottens, and Jean Palairet. Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale. Kaart van de Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste land van Noord America. Amsterdam, Chez R. et J. Ottens, geográphes, 1755. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/74692883/.

APA citation style:

Ottens, R., Ottens, J. & Palairet, J. (1755) Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale. Kaart van de Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste land van Noord America. Amsterdam, Chez R. et J. Ottens, geográphes. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/74692883/.

MLA citation style:

Ottens, R, J Ottens, and Jean Palairet. Carte des possessions angloises & françoises du continent de l'Amérique septentrionale. Kaart van de Engelsche en Fransche bezittingen in het vaste land van Noord America. Amsterdam, Chez R. et J. Ottens, geográphes, 1755. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/74692883/>.