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  • The Provinces of New York and New Jersey with part of Pensilvania, and the Goverments of Trois Riveres, and Montreal; Drawn by Capt. Holland. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

The Provinces of New York and New Jersey with part of Pensilvania, and the Goverments of Trois Riveres, and Montreal; Drawn by Capt. Holland. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

  • ARTIST: Captain (later Major) Samuel Holland

  • PUBLISHER: Published London, Printed by Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, and T. Jefferys in the Strand. Published as the Act directs 16 June 1775

  • MEDIUM: Copperplate engraving with outline color,

    DATE: 16 June 1775.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 52 3/4 x 21" (121.9 x 53.3 cm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: A well-engraved map that covers an area from Entrance of the Delaware Bay northward to the upper reaches of the St. Laurence River in Quebec. Major Holland was a Dutch military engineer in the Royal American Regiment of the British army. He was appointed by the King in 1764 as the first Surveyor General for the northern region. Governor Thomas Pownall, a Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey and Governor of Massachusetts, was one of America's important early cartographers as well. An important colonial-era map.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: The rare first state.

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Original outline color.

  • REFERENCE: #44a in Comparative Cartography by Stevens & Tree.

  • CATEGORIES: Maps

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