An Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence. / Jefferys, Thomas / 1775

An Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence. Jefferys, Thomas, 1775

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Full Title: An exact chart of the River St. Laurence, from Fort Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti, shewing the soundings, rocks, shoals &c. with views of the lands and all necessary instructions for navigating that river to Quebec. To the Rt. Honble. Jno. Montagu, El. of Sandwich, First Lord Commissioner, to the other Honble. Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, this chart is most humbly inscribed by their most obedient, most devoted, humble servt. Thos. Jefferys. London, printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, no. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 25 May 1775.

Author: Jefferys, Thomas

Date: 1775

Note: Engraved map in outline color. Printed on 2 sheets. Shows channels, anchorages, waterfalls, islands, rocks, shoals, forests, etc. Depths shown by soundings. Inset maps: The Seven Islands Scale [ca. 1:125,000]-- St. Nicholas or English Harbor. Scale [ca. 1:125,000] -- The traverse or passage from Cape Torment into the south channel of Orleans Island. Scale [ca. 1:150,000] -- The Road of Tadousac. Scale [ca. 1:175,000]. Includes profiles, "A view of the lands from Cape Torment to the Butt," and "The Mountains of our Lady of Notre Dame." Map in 2 segments.

Reference: P 4300; Seller, Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789, 230; cf Kershaw, Early printed maps of Canada, v.2, 669 (various eds.); P-Maps, p.762 (1771, 1775-1776 eds.)

Published In: A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790).

Publication Note: Late issue. Many of the maps are double sheet. This atlas was later expanded to become the New Universal Atlas (see David Rumsey Collection copy). Some of these maps also appeared in the American Atlas by Jefferys. There are actually 23 large maps, on 35 connected sheets, produced from 62 copper plates. Maps are hand painted with outline and full color and bound in half leather tan marbled paper covered boards with "General Atlas" stamped in gold on the spine. Inscription inside front cover in pen-and-ink: R. Sayer pub, 53 Fleet ... 8th, 1791 ...

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