A general map of the world, or terraqueous globe : with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane system
Item Information
- Title:
- A general map of the world, or terraqueous globe : with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane system
- Cartographer:
- Dunn, Samuel, 1723-1794
- Publisher:
- Kitchin, Thomas, 1719-1784
- Name on Item:
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by Sam.l Dunn, mathematician
- Date:
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January 6, 1787
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Genre:
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World maps
- Location:
- MacLean Collection Map Library
- Collection (local):
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MacLean Collection Map Library
- Places:
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World
- Extent:
- 1 map : hand color ; 108 x 127 cm
- Terms of Use:
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Public Domain/No known restrictions on use. Contact host institution to download image.
Contact host institution for more information.
- Publisher:
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London :
Printed for Robert Sayer, no. 53 Fleet Street
- Scale:
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Scale approximately 1:40,000,000 at equator
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Double hemisphere map of the world.
Relief shown pictorially. Shows tracks of ship voyages.
Includes text, diagrams, and tables.
Ancillary maps and diagrams: The solar system -- The Northern Hemisphere [constellations] -- The Southern Hemisphere [constellations] -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- The art of dialing by a common globe -- The analemma -- The vicissitude of seasons explained -- Selenography or a map of the moon ... -- A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection with the rhumb lines -- An universal scale ...
- Identifier:
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26743_Sayer_1787_World_MacLeanColl
- Call #:
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MC26743
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