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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.

Title
A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
Author
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
Publication
[London] : Publish'd ... by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, Feb. 19, 1753.

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CartographicUse in library Map Div. 97-6464Schwarzman Building M1A - Map Division Room 117

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Additional Authors
Green, John, active 1730-1753.
Description
6 maps; 54 x 61 cm. or smaller, bound together.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 771a.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Subjects
Note
  • Relief shown pictorially.
  • Shows nautical exploration routes.
  • Prime meridians: London and Ferro.
  • "Publish'd according to act of Parliament."
  • Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations.
  • Accompanied by J. Green's: Remarks, in support of the new chart of North and South America; in six sheets. 48 p.
Indexed In (note)
  • Stevens & Tree. Comparative cartography
Contents
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.
Call Number
Map Div. 97-6464
LCCN
75692293
OCLC
5445174
Author
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
Title
A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
Imprint
[London] : Publish'd ... by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, Feb. 19, 1753.
Cartographic Data
Scale [ca. 1:20,000,000] (E 160⁰--E 2⁰/N 82⁰--S 60⁰).
Indexed In:
Stevens & Tree. Comparative cartography, 4
Local Note
NYPL copy: 6 maps trimmed and mounted on cloth as 1 sheet: hand cl. ,123 x 110 cm. folded in slipcase 29 x 17 cm.
NYPL copy lacks text by Green.
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Added Author
Green, John, active 1730-1753.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 97-6464 [LHS 771a; atlas cases; 1 sheet folded in slip case]
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