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[Four maps removed from John Thomson's A new general atlas]

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Description: Four maps extracted from John Thomson's A new general atlas, Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for John Thomson and Company, 1817. The maps were likely separated from the atlas at some point for resale. It is not known if the 4 maps came from the same copy, although the maps for the Southern Hemispher, Spanish North America and Ireland have printed numbers mounted on them which indicate their order in the original atlas.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Call number: 299231
Creator: Thomson, John (1777-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Florence A. Walker, April 1955.; Gift of Mrs. Homer Crotty, November 1991

Mexico or New Spain

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No identifying marks, however, the Library has another copy, also marked as no. 29 in Carey's General Atlas, Improved and Enlarged... Philadelphia, 1817. Submap: Costa Rica, Panama. Prime meridian: GM, Philadelphia. Relief: hachures. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps.

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Johnson's California, with the territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona

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Extracted from Johnson's New Illustrated... Family Atlas, 1863? Earlier edition than 264894. MS note: 264895 . Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Historical and Statistical view of the United States, 1860. 68 69 MS notes: West pg 40 1863.

264895

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Atlas accompanying the Report on the geology of a portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto

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This atlas contains maps of land-use types or sedimentary groups for the topography around the Unita Mountains, as well as a number of places showing geological displacement diagrams, uplift, stereograms, and structure sections.

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Johnson's California, with the territories of Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona

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Most of the rail routes shown are marked "proposed". Extracted from Johnson's New Illustrated... Family Atlas, 1864. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Historical and Statistical View Mexico and Central America. Historical and Statistical view of the United States, 1860. 78 MS notes: 1864 Calif.

264894

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New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans

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Kashnor notes, "Shows all the American Continent, with the North-West Coast reaching above California, which is represented as an island." On North America, "This Continent with the adjoining Islands is generally supposed to have been Anciently unknown thought there are not wanting some, who will have even the Continent its self to be no other than the Insula Atlantis of the Ancients." Kashnor dates as 1698, Shirley dates 1700-01. This is the first world map in Wells' atlas, see 105:270 for another copy. 093:198M is the second similar map from the same atlas, per Shirley. Cartouche of Britannia and coat-of-arms. Vignette of Radcliffe Camera of Oxford, student and teacher, sailing ships at new lands. . Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. References: Shirley 608, BM Maps, Vol. 15, col 33 38e.1; Phillips 531; Wagner 467.. Verso Text: Ms. 47.

093:047 M

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New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans

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Kashnor notes," On the North-West Coast the line only reaches to Northern California, which is represented as an island. Part of New Zealand and New Holland is also shown." Kashnor dates as [1698], Shirley dates 1700-01. This is the second world map in Wells' atlas, 093:047M is the first similar map from the same atlas, per Shirley. Cartouche of figures representing continents and views of Oxford.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. References: Shirley 609.. Verso Text: MS. note: 198.

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[Four maps removed from John Thomson's A new general atlas]

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