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MAPS - UNITED STATES FADEN (WILLIAM)
The United States of North America with the British & Spanish Territories According to the Treaty

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MAPS - UNITED STATES

FADEN (WILLIAM) The United States of North America with the British & Spanish Territories According to the Treaty, engraved double-page map, hand-coloured in outline, depicting the east coast from Florida including the Bahamas to Newfoundland and extending to Louisiana and New Mexico in the west, title cartouche within coastal scene showing figures and ships [Tooley 80c], 550 x 640mm., [W. Faden], 1783

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This map shows the newly established United States' territories as set by the Treaty of Paris. Faden's American maps were continually revised from 1777 to 1843 and so are of great importance in charting the territorial development of the early United States. Our map is the second revision of 1783. Here, many boundaries and several topographical features have been left undetermined due to the incomplete exploration of the continent. The courses of the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers were still unclear and as a result Georgia, Pennsylvania and New York have undetermined western borders with the Iroquois and Appalachians.

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