The papers of the antiquary and book collector Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) reside in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In the mid-1980s a series of copperplates were found amongst the collection. They were found to include a number of views, images and maps relating to the North American colonies. No published example had ever been recorded although contemporary imprints from some of them were later found at Holkham Hall in Norfolk. The Bodleian Library commissioned a limited number of fifty fine quality prints to be pulled from the plates on Velin Arches Blanc sheets of paper. Numerous articles and books have been written relating to the find and surmise that they were to accompany an unfinished manuscript written by William Byrd. Even the manuscript does not appear to survive although we know of the intended work from contemporary sources. This particular map depicts much of the east coast extending from Casco Bay in Maine to Cape Hatteras in the south. A fine inset extends this to include the Florida peninsula and the Bahamas which itself bears a further inset map of Charleston. The inset is believed to be the engraved work of Mark Catesby.