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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

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  • 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

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  • 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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