Collection search - A new map of North America; with the West India Islands. Divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783. Wherein are particularly distinguished the United States, and the several provinces, governments &ca. which compose the British dominions; laid down according to the latest surveys, and corrected from the original materials, of Goverr. Pownall, Membr. of Parliamt, 1783. [cartographic material]

Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: London and Ferro.
Includes historical notes and text.
Includes inset: "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay," 23 x 26 cm.
Includes a title cartouche. The cartouche, which angles around Bermuda, depicts two stylized American Indians surrounded by the presumed flora and fauna of the new world. These include a small monkey, a parrot, and a jaguar. Above the cartouche is a textual quotation from Article III of the Treaty of Paris, affirming the rights of the United States to access the rich cod fields of Newfoundland's Grand Banks.

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

Sellers & Van Ee, "LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789", Entry 27, Phillips, Entry 4295, map no 30-31., NYPL Digital Gallery, Image ID 464852, www.davidrumsay.com

Scale indeterminate (W 95°--W 30°/N 50°--N 27°)

The microfiche version is NMC 175348

Discovery and Mapping of Upper Canada: An exhibition held at the Canadiana Department, Royal Ontario Museum, May - December 1967.