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In ink on verso: "No 58" (partly damaged by cropping). In pencil on recto: "58". Military topographic map. Covers Northhampton, Bucks and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Bethlehem, Hellertown, Pleasant Valley, Strawntown, Keelersville, Hagersville, Doyles Corner, Trewigtown, Montgomeryville, Spring House, Ambler and Fort Washington. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, foxed and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Lined with China paper. Sheathed in mylar. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermarks: "LVG" accompanied by lion in circle with inscription "LIBERTATE PRO PATRIA EJUSQUE"--cf. Gravell and Miller American watermark no. 492.
PID
nyhs:243284
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004604
n000086m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
From Bethlehem to Broad Axe. No 58 / 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 on 3 assembled sheets : ms. ; 87 x 24 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W75⁰25ʹ--W75.⁰12ʹ/N40⁰38ʹ--N40⁰04ʹ)