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In ink on verso: "No. 99 D". In pencil on recto: "No 99 D". Military topographic map; an early draft. Covers Dutchess- Orange- Putnam- Rockland and Westchester counties in New York. Pen-and-ink- pencil on laid paper. Soiled- creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth- bound and cropped- disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Index title- both statements of responsibility- date- series title and series numbering also by Erskine- but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: crest with pendent initials "G R" Countermark "J Whatman".
PID
nyhs:243431
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
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Owning Institution
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Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
Projections for Closing and trying the meeting of Surveys. No 99 D / Large paper by Capt. Scull ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 72 x 51 cm