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While a few of the charts in Des Barress Atlantic Neptune featured long stretches of the coast line , many focused on specific localities, such as this chart of Boston Bay. This is the earliest issue of Des Barres fine chart of the Bay. This chart also serves as an example of how the exigencies of war contributed to the history of American cartography as often as trade or discovery. Commissioned by the British Admiralty for military use, Des Barrescharts were the most dependable charts at the outset of the American Revolution.
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3f462w11g
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A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity
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map
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1
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3f462w11g
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity
description
While a few of the charts in Des Barress Atlantic Neptune featured long stretches of the coast line , many focused on specific localities, such as this chart of Boston Bay. This is the earliest issue of Des Barres fine chart of the Bay. This chart also serves as an example of how the exigencies of war contributed to the history of American cartography as often as trade or discovery. Commissioned by the British Admiralty for military use, Des Barrescharts were the most dependable charts at the outset of the American Revolution.
date
["1776"]
year
1776
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_001200
creators
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Maritime Charts and Atlases
subjects
Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Boston Bay--Early works to 1800
Boston Bay (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
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Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
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1
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[London]
publisher
J.F.W. Des Barres
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sf268508b
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schema:latitude
42.3333
schema:longitude
-70.9667
extent
1 chart ; 76 x 106 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Appears in the author's Atlantic Neptune. London : J.F.W. Des Barres, 1777-[1781].
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3f462w11g
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