A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia

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A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia
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Title:
A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia
Title (alt.):
Chart containing part of the Icy Sea with the adjacent coast of Asia and America
Chart comprizing Greenland with the countries and islands about Baffin's and Hudson's Bays
Chart containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian discoveries to the north
Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies
Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the south of the line, with islands dispersed thro' the same
Chart of South America, comprehending the West Indies, with the adjacent islands, in the Southern Ocean, and South Sea
Creator:
Green, John, -1757
Contributor:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Contributor:
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Date:
[1753]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
America--Maps--Early works to 1800
America--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
South America
North America (area)
Mesoamerica (area)
South America
Extent:
1 map ; 43 x 52 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
[London] : printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street and Thomas Jefferys in the Strand
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:20,000,000]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Title from sheets 1 and 2. All sheets individually titled.
Prime meridians: London and Ferro.
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows nautical exploration routes.
Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Cumming, W. British maps of colonial America, p. 45
Identifier:
06_01_008543
Barcode:
30000003817903