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MiddleStates-lauriewhittle-1794 $2,250.00 Title A New and General Map of the Middle Dominions Belonging to the United States of America, viz. Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware-Counties, Pennsylvania, New Jersey etc…   1794 (dated)         1 : 2300000 Description This is the Laurie and Whittle 1794 updated edition of Lewis Evans foundational 1755 map of the middle part of the British Colonies in North America. Evans map was the earliest to accurately detail the American frontier at the time of its original publication. It exhibits superb detail in the northern Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio River Valley, providing information about Native American tribes and transport, French and English forts, and other details pertinent to the frontiersman - sources of salt, roads, and trails. It was hailed by Schwartz and Ehrenberg as the most ambitious performance of its kind undertaken in America up to that time. So widely was the excellence of Evans map recognized

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