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Title
North America as didvided amongst the European powers [cartographic material] /
Arrangement structure
Item (linked) part of
Date(s)
10 Jany. 1774
Place of creation
England
Publisher
Printed for Robt. Sayer
Extent
1 map : hand col. ; 30 x 44 cm on sheet 45 x 56 cm.
Language of material
English
Conditions of access
Cartographic material
90: Open
Original can be viewed in the presence o
f an early cartographic archivist.
Original can be viewed in the presence o
f an early cartographic archivist.
Cartographic material
Microfiche NMC135102
Microfiche NMC135102
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection Item #198
Cartographic material
90: Open
Volume
198 Item no. assigned by LAC 198
198 Item no. assigned by LAC 198
90: Open
Archival reference no.
Other accession no.
80101/245 CA
Local class no.
H3/1000/1774 (copy 1)
Terms of use
Credit Library and Archives Canada.
Copyright expired.
Additional name(s)
Additional information
Meridien of Ferro Island.
"39" appears in upper right and lower right margin.
"Printed for Robt. Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street as the Act Directs 10 Jany. 1774".
"Shows the discoveries made by the Russians, during the last twenty years" along the Alaska coast.
" Land seen by Mendana" appears in the Pacific Ocean along the Tropic of Cancer.
From: Dunn's A new atlasof the mundane system; or of geography and cosmography: describing the heavens and the earth, the distances, motions and magnitudes of the celestial bodies, 1774, map no 39.
Relief shown pictorially.
"39" appears in upper right and lower right margin.
"Printed for Robt. Sayer No 53 in Fleet Street as the Act Directs 10 Jany. 1774".
"Shows the discoveries made by the Russians, during the last twenty years" along the Alaska coast.
" Land seen by Mendana" appears in the Pacific Ocean along the Tropic of Cancer.
From: Dunn's A new atlasof the mundane system; or of geography and cosmography: describing the heavens and the earth, the distances, motions and magnitudes of the celestial bodies, 1774, map no 39.
Relief shown pictorially.
Physical condition note
Torn along center fold line.
Custodial history
Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.
Related materials
For other copy see H3/1000/1774 (copy 2)Coverdale Collection (NMC 6691)
Cartographic math data
Scale [ca. 1: 21 000 000] (W 180°--W 0°/N 80°--N 0°)
Citation / reference note
Phillips, Entry 3515, no. 39.
Availability of other formats note
The microfiche version is NMC 135102
Subject heading
North America - Maps - Early works to 1800.
Source
Private
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
3963814
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