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Mappe Monde ou Carte Generale de l'Univers d'Après une projection nouvelle d'une Sphere ovale, pour mieux faire connaitre les distances entre L'Europe et l'Amérique avec les Tours de Monde du Cap. Cook et toutes les Découvertes Nouvelles

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Title: Mappe Monde ou Carte Generale de l'Univers d'Après une projection nouvelle d'une Sphere ovale, pour mieux faire connaitre les distances entre L'Europe et l'Amérique avec les Tours de Monde du Cap. Cook et toutes les Découvertes Nouvelles
Creator: Lotter, Matthäus Albrecht, 1741-1810, cartographer
Contributor: Lotter, Georg Frederich
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1776
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "Shows the track of Cook and Clerke to the North-West Coast of Alaska, Australia and the South Seas." Kashnor dates as ca. 1781. Both Matthieu Albert and George Frederic Lotter listed as authors on map. Shows American arctic coast as vague line "according to the Japanese." Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Oval. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. notes: 1/113, 37, #93, No. 2..
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map ; hand col. ; 91 x 47 cm., sheet 94 x 51 cm.
Identifier: 093:037 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/30
Language: French
French
Subject: World maps
Cook, James, 1728-1779--Journeys
Time Period: 1781 ca
Place: World
W 180°
E 180°/N 90°
S 90°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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