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Image ID: 465239
Carte d'Amerique : dressée pour l'usage du Roy / par Guillaume Delisle, premier geographe de sa Majesté de l'Academie Ro...
(1739)
Image Details
Image Title
:
Carte d'Amerique : dressée pour l'usage du Roy / par Guillaume Delisle, premier geographe de sa Majesté de l'Academie Royale des Sciences.
Creator
:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 -- Geographer (not in Relator list)
Additional Name(s)
:
Cóvens et Mortier -- Publisher
Published Date
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1739
Item Physical Description
: 1 map : hand col. ; 48 x 58 cm.
Notes
:
Includes "Avertisement".
Note 2.)
John H. Levine Bequest.
Note 3.)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 4.)
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Note 5.)
Relief shown pictorially.
Standard Reference
: Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, p. 13, no. 4; Wagner, H.R. Cartog. of the NW coast, II, 538
Source
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John H. Levine Collection
Location
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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