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Vorstellung einiger gegenden und plaetze in Nord America unter franzosisch und englishe jurisdiction gehoerig [cartographic material] zu findend bey den Homaennischen Erben in Nurnberg Ao 1756

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Item

Date:

1756.

Reference:

R11981-437-1-E, Volume number: 552

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item #552

Local class no.:

H3/1100/1756

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3970975

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

Atlantic Provinces

Vorstellung einiger gegenden und plaetze in Nord America unter franzosisch und englishe jurisdiction gehoerig
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1756.

Place:

Nureberg:

Place of creation:

Germany

Publisher:

Homaenischer Erben,

Extent:

3 maps on 1 sheet : hand col. ; 43 x 51 cm on sheet 50 x 56 cm.

Language of material:

German

Scope and content:

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Three town plans on one sheet of eastern Canada, including Quebec, Louisbourg and Halifax towns which the English and French fought to conquer on the American continent from 1754 to 1760, a war that ended by the French capitulation of 1760.

Provenance:

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Homann Erben (Firm)

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General note:

Copperplate engraving.
Place names in English and French.
[1] Plan du port et ville de Louisbourg dans l'isle royale. 22x 28 cm. Scale Echelle de cinq cens toises--[2] Plan de la ville de Quebec.22 x 23 cm. Echelles de 200 toises--[3] Plan of the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia. 21 x 51 cm. Scale [ca. 1:8 000]
Folder includes a second copy of the Plan of the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia.
From: Homann's Stadt-Atlas, 1762.
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Citation/reference note:

Phillips, Entry 3293, no [30], Phillips, Entry 61, no [38]

Cartographic math data:

Scales differ.

Availability of other formats note:

The microfiche version is NMC 191046

Related material:

For other copies see: H12/1000/1756 (2 copies) ; H2/1100/1756 (copy1) (NMC 6945) ; H2/1100/1756 (copy 2) (NMC 6946) ; H2/1100/1756 (NMC 24911)
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Plan du port et ville de Louisbourg dans l'isle royale [document cartographique]

Plan de la ville de Quebec [document cartographique]

Plan of the town of Halifax in Nova Scotia [cartographic material]
Subject heading:

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Cities and towns - Canada - Maps - Early works to 1800

Louisbourg (N.S.) Early works to 1800

Quebéc (Quebéc)

Halifax (N.S.) - Maps - Early works to 1800
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist.

Microfiche [R11981] NMC191046

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981]

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552 Item no. assigned by LAC 552

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