File:A chart of Delaware Bay and River - containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands, and bearings of the most considerable land marks etc etc - NYPL433943.tiff

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English: A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands, and bearings of the most considerable land marks etc etc / faithfully coppied [sic] from that published at Philadelphia by Joshua Fisher, together with the tide table from the Capes to Philadelphia, and the set of the tide on the several quarters of the flood and ebb.; Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases / Charts and maps
Subtitle from scan: (Map Div. 00-498) [File with Delaware parts] Delaware Bay 1776
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Depths shown by soundings. ''Note 2.'') Includes tide-table and list of pilots and masters of vessels who have recommended the map. ''Note 3.'') Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 603. ''Note 4.'') National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. ''Note 5.'') NYPL copy has ms. note on verso: 10. ''Note 6.'') Oriented with north to right. ''Note 7.'') Shows Cape Henlopen as Cape James, to the north of "C. Hinlopen." ''Note 8.'') Shows various ship channels from the mouth of Delaware Bay to Philadelphia, Pa.
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Map Div. 00-498 [LHS 603]
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institution QS:P195,Q219555
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Robert Sayer  (1725–1794)  wikidata:Q15430328
 
Robert Sayer
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Robert Sayer, Golden Buck, Fleet Street, London
Description British cartographer and publisher
Date of birth/death 1725 Edit this at Wikidata 29 January 1794 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Sunderland
Work period 1748 Edit this at Wikidata–1794 Edit this at Wikidata
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London (December 1748–1760); London (1760–1794) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q15430328
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Joshua Fisher  (1707–1783)  wikidata:Q6289816
 
Description American merchant and cartographer
Date of birth/death 1707 Edit this at Wikidata 1 February 1783 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6289816
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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5-11-2006; updated 3-25-2011
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433943

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