JOHNSTON, Thomas. Quebec, the Capital of New-France, a Bishoprick, and Seat of the Soverain Court. [Boston, 1759]. Artist_Thomas Moran He says he has paid

He says he has paid Bell about a thousand already in royalty on the Holy cross

The map was not a standard inclusion in Mortier's atlases and is relatively scarce on the market

are all that survives of the original surveyor's charts which became the source material for the larger manuscript maps composed by John Warner and William Mayo to establish the bounds of Sir Thomas Fairfax's claim to the Northern Neck area of the Potomac River in Virginia

he returned to

Munster was a cosmographer

JOHNSTON, Thomas. Quebec, the Capital of New-France, a Bishoprick, and Seat of the Soverain Court. [Boston, 1759]. Artist_Thomas Moran He says he has paidJOHNSTON, Thomas. Quebec, the Capital of New France, a Bishoprick, and Seat of the Soverain Court. [Boston, 1759]. Single sheet mounted and framed (sheet size: 7 x 9 in.; 19. 6 x 24. 7 cm.); frame size: 11 x 13 in.; 29. 2 x 62. 7 cm.). EXTREMELY FINE engraved view of the city of Quebec, with ORIGINAL HAND COLOR; a bit browned. FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE, with the addition of a note about the defeat of Montcalm on September 13, 1759, which happened