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In ink on verso: "No. 99 C". In pencil on recto: "No 99 C". Military topographic map; an early draft. Covers Mercer, Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey, Montgomery County and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Soiled, stained, 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:243430
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004637
n000228m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Name)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
Projections +c for closing and trying the meeting of Surveys. No. 99, C / 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. ; 47 x 75 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W75⁰18ʹ--W74.⁰38ʹ/N40⁰10ʹ--N39⁰57ʹ)