Degrees of latitude : mapping colonial America / by Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro.
Degrees of latitude : mapping colonial America / by Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro.
Degrees of latitude : mapping colonial America / by Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro.
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Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in association with H.N. Abrams, c2002.
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NQ912.755/2
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Claiming the Land / Margaret Beck Pritchard -- "Useful & elegant furniture for screens, halls, large rooms, stair cases": Maps as Symbolic Objects / Margaret Beck Pritchard -- A Selection of Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection / Margaret Beck Pritchard -- The Atlas of John Custis, 1698 /...
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Publisher
Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in association with H.N. Abrams, c2002.
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Virginia
Date Published
c2002.
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"Maps tell us what was known or believed about the land, suggest how people traveled and traded, and record routes taken across oceans and continents. By the seventeenth century, the profits being generated from the American colonies created a need for maps to facilitate trade and promote new settlements. Maps substantiated land claims, settled bou...
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Degrees of latitude : mapping colonial America / by Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2002.
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NQ912.755/2
Record Identifier
74VveR3kZ64b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VveR3kZ64b
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ISBN
0821414445 (H.N. Abrams : alk. paper)
9780879352141 (CWF : alk. paper)
0879352140 (CWF : alk. paper)
9780810935396 (H.N. Abrams : alk. paper)
0810935392 (H.N. Abrams : alk. paper)
9780821414446 (H.N. Abrams : alk. paper)
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912.755
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991017048769702626
