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Image ID: 465024
A general map of the world, or terraqueous globe : with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing th...
(January 6, 1787)
Image Details
Image Title
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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 / by Saml. Dunn, mathematician.
Creator
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Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794 -- Cartographer
Additional Name(s)
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Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794 -- Publisher
Published Date
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January 6, 1787
Item Physical Description
: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 2 hemispheres each 59 cm. in diam., on 106 x 128 cm., sheets 106 x 66 cm.
Notes
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Includes text, diagrams, and tables.
Note 2.)
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Note 3.)
Relief shown pictorially.
Note 4.)
Shows tracks of ship voyages.
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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