A Map of the British Empire in North America

Abstract

1776: Samuel Dunn, “A Map of the British Empire in North America”, a largish map, about 47 cms high by 30 cms wide, published in London in 1776 and showing the British Empire’s possessions in North America on the eve of the American revolution; coloured in pastels; with fold mark in the middle as it had been part of a book used by both sides in the American Revolutionary war for geographic information on the colonies.