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The reason that the BNF say that it dates to 1713 , *or later*, is because it
portrays British possession of Acadia following the T
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Please forgive this, which was intended as a private remark--I forgot to
change the email address (as usual).
Joel
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On 9/29/2011 9:56 PM, Daniel Strebe wrote:
Please, does anyone curate a collection that houses this map in situ?
I am sure they
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Joel,
Thank you greatly for finding this. I did not stumble onto it myself because
BnF expanded “&” into “et”. Certainly it is th
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Vladimiro:
Thanks for the comments. Normally I would not be (too) surprised to find a map
projection used earlier than it was kno
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Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Potentially of interest
With best wishes,
Nick
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I was able to get a better look at the upper right margin of the Gallica
image, which indicates Tome XII, pag. 1. Maybe someone at
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To confuse matters further, WorldCat (via FirstSearch) has two entries
for the map, dated 1800 (likely an error?--seems to have pag
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Daniel and all,
just one short, brief, remark.
Before Gaspard Monge published his fundamental treatise Géometrie Descriptive
in 17