World (north) Dunn, Samuel; Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d, 1697-1782; Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1799


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Full Title: A general map of the World or terraqueous globe with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars of the solar, starry and mundane system, by Saml. Dunn, mathematician. (North half). London, Published by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, 12th May, 1799.

Author: Dunn, Samuel; Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d, 1697-1782; Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Date: 1799

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Author: Dunn, Samuel; Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d, 1697-1782; Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Date: 1799

Short Title: World (north)

Publisher: London: Laurie & Whittle

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 53

Object Width cm: 124

Scale 1: 43,000,000

Note: Hand colored engraved map. Relief shown pictorially. Contents: Western Hemisphere or the New World by Mr. d'Anville, with new discoveries and several additions -- Eastern Hemisphere or the Old World by Mr. d'Anville, with the new discoveries and several additions. Ancillary maps or charts: The Solar System -- The Northern Hemisphere -- The Southern Hemisphere -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma. Printed on 2 sheets; joined.

World Area: World

Subject: Celestial

Full Title: A general map of the World or terraqueous globe with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars of the solar, starry and mundane system, by Saml. Dunn, mathematician. (North half). London, Published by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, 12th May, 1799.

List No: 2310.002

Page No: (2)

Series No: 4

Published In: (A new universal atlas, exhibiting all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, &c. &c. in the whole World; being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert (de Vaugondy) with many improvements by Major James Rennel, and other eminent geographers, including all the tracks and new discoveries of the British circumnavigators, Biron, Wallis, Carteret, Captain James Cook, Vancouver, Perouse, &c. &c. 6th Ed. ... London, R. Laurie & J. Whittle, 1802)

Publication Author: Kitchin, Thomas; Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Publication Date: 1802

Publication Reference: P699. Cf Shirley R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.LAU-1c (1799 ed.); NMM 375 (3rd ed. 1801)

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 2310.000

Publication Type: World Atlas

Publication Maps: 76

Publication Height cm: 57

Publication Width cm: 41

Image No: 2310002

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