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Image ID: 465017
Carte generale de la terre : appliquée a l'astronomie pour l'etude de la géographie terrestre et celeste / dressée par l...
([1782])
Image Details
Image Title
:
Carte generale de la terre : appliquée a l'astronomie pour l'etude de la géographie terrestre et celeste / dressée par le Sr. Flecheux, d'apres les nouvelles observations ; Picquet, sculp., 1782.
Creator
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Flécheux -- Cartographer
Additional Name(s)
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Picquet, J.-P. -- Engraver
Published Date
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[1782]
Item Physical Description
: 1 map : hand col. ; 1 hemisphere and 2 quarter spheres each 33 cm. in diam., on sheet 79 x 56 cm.
Notes
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Hemisphere, covering eastern North America, South America, Europe, and Africa, oriented with south at the top. Quarter spheres, above and below hemisphere, oriented with north at the top.
Note 2.)
Includes text, diagrams and tables.
Note 3.)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 4.)
Relief shown pictorially.
Source
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Maps of the World / Whole
Location
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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