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A survey of the roads of the United States of America /

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Relief shown by hachures.

Orientation varies.

Phillips, 1326

Maps no. 34-39 are believed to never have been engraved as they are wanting in all known copies.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

On original paper cover in manuscript ink: "Collis's plan of the roads throughout the United States."

Accompanied by broadside: Proposals for publishing A survey of the roads of the United States of America / by Christopher Colles (conserved and bound in, 29 x 20 cm.).

Additionally accompanied by manuscript title page for this atlas from the Peter Force Collection (on sheet 21 x 12 cm.) and additional page with manuscript notes by Peter Force and George H. Moore, dated 1846 (on sheet 21 x 13 cm.). These 2 sheets and exhibit card in envelope, in slipcase, housed in container with Copy 2.

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01/01/1789
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Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816.
Tiebout, Cornelius, 1777-1832.
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