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A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection with The Tracks and Discoveries of the Latest Circumnavigators &c. By Samuel Dunn, Mathematician

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Title: A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection with The Tracks and Discoveries of the Latest Circumnavigators &c. By Samuel Dunn, Mathematician
Creator: Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794, creator
Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794, cartographer
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1789-06-16
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 Cook's tracks in the South Seas and to the North-West Coast of America. Locates Drake's Harbour and New Albion." Atlas reference from Rosenthal. Also shows tracks of Bouganville in 1768, Byron in 1765. See also 105:019M for an earlier version of this map (1781). Numeral 2 in upper right, lower right outside neatline. Also 093-190S for later version. Compass rose lower center.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Sea leagues 20 in a Degree. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Art Work. References: Phillips (A)659-2; Marshyall I-301-2-1 [from Rosenthal 1996]. Verso Text: MS. note:93 62; II.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map outline 31 x 41 cm., sheet 47 x 57 cm.
Identifier: 093:062 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/51
Language: English
Subject: World maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: 1789
Place: World
E 165°
W 175°/N 84°
S 75°
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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