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• Title:A new & accurate map of North America including Nootka Sound : with the new discovered islands on the north east coast of Asia.
  
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• Variant Title:New and accurate map of North America including Nootka Sound : with the new discovered islands on the north east coast of Asia.
  
• Author/Creator:Bowen, Thomas, active 1749-1790, cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cooke, Charles, printer.
  Bankes, Thomas. author. New, royal, and authentic system of geography,
  
• Published/Created:[London] : Published as the Act directs, by C. Cooke, No. 17 Paternoster Row, [1790?].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3300 1790z .B68
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:North America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subject(s): Asia, Northern--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale 34,214,400, (E 140°-E 0°/N80°-N0°)
  1 map ; colored ; 24. 5 x 41 cm.
  
• Summary:Copper engraving, hand colored, showing boundaries of Mexican states (with red border), and colonies on the east coast, territories of First Nations peoples (for instance, Inuit), as well as key names identified with Cook's voyage on the west coast. Border colored yellow.
  
• Notes:Prime meridian: London.
  Watermark: fleur de lys in the Atlantic, VI in the Pacific.
  Originally folded in 3, from: A. Bankes's A new, royal, and authentic system of geography, p. 494.