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North America: Henry Popple's map. Twenty sheets with an index map (see MPI 1/303)....
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1562
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- FO 925/1562
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1733
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North America: Henry Popple's map. Twenty sheets with an index map (see MPI 1/303). 'A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto: by Henry Popple, C Lemprièreinv, and drawn by B Baron engraver'. Title on a rectangle in a scene showing American Indians, an alligator, monkeys, birds and a severed European head pierced by an arrow: in the distance a ship being unladen, with European figures on shore. Decorated with drawings of ships including a sketch of Sir Charles Wager's action off Cartagena, 28 May 1707. Above the upper border a second title 'America Septentrionalis', on a scroll. Compass star. Dedication to the Queen in a rococo cartouche with royal arms. Inset views of Niagara Falls, Mexico City, Quebec and New York, the last three with reference tables. Scale: 1 inch to about 40 miles. Inset charts of the harbours of Placentia, Annapolis Royal, Boston, New York, Charleston, New Providence Island, St Augustine, [Old] Providence, Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston and Port Antonio, Jamaica, Fort Royal in Martinique, Cartagena in Colombia, Porto Bello, and the islands of Barbados and Antigua. Engraved by William Henry Toms and R W Seale, London, 1733. The map bears the certificate of Edmond Halley, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, as to its accuracy.
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- Engraved, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- International
- Maps and plans
- Americas
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 39
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