A Map of the State of Virginia : Reduced from the Nine Sheet Map of the State In Conformity to Law (Map of Virginia) 1827

Old map of Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, United States, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia.

Created by Herman Böÿe, E. B. Dawson, William Branch Giles, Henry Schenck Tanner in 1827.

• Covers also Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania.
• Relief shown by hachures.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, the 31st day of October 1827 by W.B. Giles, Governor of the State of Virginia."
• Prime meridian: Washington.
• Issued in blue slipcase designed for this map.
• Annotations of place names on map area in ink (red and black) and pencil.
• Handwritten annotations on pages [2] and [3] of cover: To Rev. C. Braxton Bryan, given me at the Council that met in Fredericksburg in May-21-24 1879, C.B.B; and This map was the propriety of John Randolph, Roanoke, Virginia.
• Includes text and tables: References -- Deviation of the Magnetic Needle from the True Meridian -- Memoranda -- Geological Remarks --Situation, Extent, etc. -- Table of Population -- Statistical Table -- Geographical Positions -- Steam Boat Routes -- Altitudes of Mountains &c. in Virginia above Tide water.
• In pencil on verso: 23598.
• Gift; William C. Wooldridge and Norfolk Southern Corporation; Jan. 19, 2013

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1827

Delaware

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Maryland

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West Virginia

William Branch Giles