Proposals for publishing by subscription, a map of the coast of West-Florida, : including it’s bays and lakes, with the course of the Mississippi, from the junction of the Akansa River, to it’s entrance into the gulf of Mexico. : Drawn from official surveys, made by order of the admiralty of Great-Britain, for the use of her navy. By Thomas Hutchins, late captain and engineer in the British service, and now geographer to the United States of America. ...

Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1775-1783

[Philadelphia]

[Printed by Robert Aitken]

1781-10-15
[1781]

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 34 x 21 cm

Dated: Philadelphia, October 15th, 1781. No copy of the map described has been located. "Mr. Robert Aitken, near the Coffee House in Market Street, is authorized to receive the subscription money." The New-York Historical copy is signed in ms.: Tho: Hutchins. Formerly bound into copy 1 of Hutchins’ An historical narrative and topographical description of Louisiana, and West-Florida (Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1784). References: Bristol B5292; Shipton & Mooney 43981; ESTC W8844.

Broadsides -- SY1781 no.27
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West Florida--Maps--Early works to 1800

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