De Brahm’s monumental map of South Carolina and Georgia

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A Map of South Carolina and a part of Georgia

containing the Whole Sea-Coast; all the Islands, Inlets, Rivers, Creeks, Parishes, Townships, Boroughs, Roads, and Bridges: as also, Several Plantations, with their proper Boundary-Lines, their Names, and the Names of their Proprietors. Composed From Surveys taken by The Hon. William Bull Esq. Lieutenant Governor, Captain Gascoign. Hugh Bryan, Esq; and William de Brahm Esq.r Surveyor General of the South.n District of North America, Republished with considerable Additions, from Surveys made & collected by John Stuart Esq.r His Majesty's Superintendant of Indian Affairs, By William Faden Successor to the late T. Jefferys, Geographer to the King. Charing Cross 1780

DE BRAHM, William Gerard
London,
Published as the Act directs, by W.m Faden, Charing Cross,
June 1.st 1780.
Engraved map on four sheets, minor loss to old folds skilfully repaired.
1350 by 1270mm. (53.25 by 50 inches).
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The second and greatly expanded state, heavily-revised, and showing much greater detail over a larger part of the two colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, than the first state which was published in 1757. The map was separately issued, and also included in copies of Faden's composite atlas, 'The North American Atlas' (from 1777).

Dedicated "To the Right Honourable Lord George Germaine, First Lord Commissioner; and to the rest of the Right Honourable the Lords...

bibliography:

bibliography:

Cumming, 'British Maps' page 15; Cumming, 'Southeast in Early Maps', entry 310 and pages 27–29; De Vorsey, 'De Brahm, Eccentric Genius', pages 21–29; De Vorsey, 'De Brahm, 1718-1799', pages 41–47; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, 'Mapping of America', page 167; Pritchard & Taliaferro, 'Degrees of Latitude', 37; Sellers and van Ee, 'Maps and Charts', pages 326–327; Smith, 'Georgia's Legacy', page 44