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A plan of the city of Philadelphia and environs

Title: A plan of the city of Philadelphia and environs / surveyed by John Hills, in the summers of 1801, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 ; Wm. Kneass sculp.
Author: Hills, John.
Publication: Philadelphia : Published ... by the author ... , 1808 [i.e. 1809]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Cartographic	Supervised use	Map Div. 01-1882	Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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Description

1 map : hand col.; 98 cm. in diam., on sheet 105 x 104 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

Note

Relief shown by hachures.
Shows names of landowners.
"The distance between the circles is one mile."
"Published May 1st 1808, as the act directs and sold by the author, and principal booksellers in Philadelphia."
Circular map with ill.
Includes dedication, and note by J.B. Varnum, dated Feb. 1st, 1809.

Indexed In (note)

Phillips, P.L. Descriptive maps and views of Philadelphia, in the Library of Congress
Phillips. Maps of America

Call Number

Map Div. 01-1882

OCLC

46764806

Author

Hills, John.

Title

A plan of the city of Philadelphia and environs / surveyed by John Hills, in the summers of 1801, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 ; Wm. Kneass sculp.

Imprint

Philadelphia : Published ... by the author ... , 1808 [i.e. 1809]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:33,000].

Indexed In:

Phillips, P.L. Descriptive maps and views of Philadelphia, in the Library of Congress, 181

Phillips. Maps of America, p. 703

Local Note

NYPL copy dissected into 4 sheets.

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Added Author

Kneass, William, 1780-1840.

Varnum, Joseph B. (Joseph Bradley), 1750 or 1751-1821.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 01-1882 [4 sheets]