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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Looks like someone combined Bellin's map of Rio de la Plata with his map of Buenos Ayres. An unattributed map of British origin showing a mission established in 1740 (so later than that) and the Portuguese Colony at Sacramento in current Uruguay. PIII. Submap: Plan of the City of Buenos-Ayres. MS note: 87. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Kashnor notes, "Showing Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and the entrance to La Plata, locating Buenos Ayres and Monte Video." Kashnor dates as ca. 1670. Cartouche: cherubs.. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 700.
093:700 M
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Kashnor notes, "Shows La Plata as part of the province of Paraguay, and locates Buenos Ayres as a large city." For another copy see RB 105:910. Submap: Plan de la Ville de Santiago Capitale du Royaume de Chili. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Conic. Watermark: Devise with DHS. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
105:870 M
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Kashnor notes, "Shows a good coastline to the North-West, and locates Port Sir Fran. Drake, Juan de Fuca Strait, Nootka Sound and other discoveries by Cook." Kashnor notes date as ca. 1780. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
105:014 M
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"drawn principally from M.S.S. furnished by Woodbine Parish, Esq. F.R.S. many years H.M. Consul General & Charge d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres. To whom it is dedicated, By his obliged Servant, J. Arrowsmith." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 868.
105:868 M
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Shows tracks and soundings of HMS Diomede and Leda for Second edition, and HMS Woolwich for Third Edition information. Vignettes: View of the coast between Point of la Sierra & that of la Ballena/ the Whale: view of the Island of Lobos/ Sea Wolf Island. Submaps: Plan of the Harbour of Maldanado, On the North Shore of River La Plata, at its mouth, Surveyed in 1789: Plan of the Harbour of Montivedeo, on the North Shore of the River La Plata, Surveyed in the Year 1789.. Prime meridian: GM, Cadiz. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: VignettesSub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 637 23.
093:637 M