Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
A new and accurate map of all the known World : from the latest & most authentic surveys assisted by the best & most approved modern maps charts &c. wherein all the latest discoveries & improvemts. are carefully delineated. The whole being regulated by astron. observations
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
E. Bowen
Place
Date
1760
Physical Description
1 map (double hemispheres) : hand col. ; each hemisphere 25 cm. in diameter on sheet 43 x 55 cm.
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Very attractive double-hemispherical map of the world. Incomplete north-west North America; Greenland is part of the Arctic Circle; New Holland is incomplete and attached to New Guinea; New Zeeland (sic) appears as mapped by Tasman and cautioned with "Assassins B."
Public Access Text
Allegorical figures of the four continents in the corners. Probably removed from an atlas; "No. 90" bottom right corner. Left and right margins probably trimmed.
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
06 Dec 2024
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