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Il Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale del Globo

Description: Badly colored exterior. Note width of New Zealand. Shows first track of Cook, track of Bougainvillea. Cartouche: flowered compass. Figures: Four continents represented. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Single crescent. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Date: 1774
Call number: 216077
Creator: Zatta, Antonio (active 1757-1797)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 40 x 52 cm
Associated people: Novelli, Pietro.; Barat., Valentina.; Zuliani, Giulian.
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Il Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo Ridotto in Quadro

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The world now shown in Mercator projection. Cartouche: Flowered Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Climate zones shown in left margin. Right margin shows Degrees of Climate, Length of Day, Length of Night, and Northern/Southern Climates.

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Messico ovvero Nuova Spagna : che contiene il nouvo Messico la California con una parte de paesi adjacenti

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A map of like title and date is listed in Zatta's Atlante novissimo. Cartouche: Flowered MS note: ASK 10.00. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: July 10/20.

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Bowles's New One-Sheet Map of the World

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Kashnor notes, "A good map of the North-West Coast to Alaska." Cartouche: Old and new year depicted. Artwork: Vignettes of four continents, compass rose. "laid down from the latest observations and comprehending the New Discoveries to the present Time, particularly those lately made in the Southern Seas. By Byron, Wallis, Cook, Bouganville, and others." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: no. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheArt Work. Verso Text: MS notes: 7 150215.

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Mappe-Monde Dresée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens. A son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Chartes

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Kashnor notes, "Shows the Gulf of California only reaching as high as the Bona Guia, but without the definite termination; also shows New Holland and part of New Zealand, with the tracks of Mendana, Dampier, Olivier, Tasman, Pelsart, Magellan and le Maire." Shirley shows this as first edition, 1700, note slant of South America's tip to the west. See also 093:181, 105:244 and 105:245 for later editions. Cartouche - figures representing four continents. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: Shirley 603. Verso Text: MS notes: 180 3.

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Mappe Monde ou sont marquées les Nouvelles Decouvertes, par M. Brion de la Tour, Ing'r. Geog. du Roi

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Kashnor notes, "Shows the North-West Coast from the discoveries of Cook and Clerke, locating the tracks of Cook and the English explorers in the Pacific. Indicated New Albion and the Port of Drake, New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea." Two section of cartouche include information on sections designed by M. Brion and by M. Clermont. Five elaborately drawn figures representing continents symbolically. Cartouche with fruits and flowers, vines.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheFigures . Verso Text: MS. notes: Mappe-Monde 1783; 93/38..

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Mappe-Monde Dresée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres et sur les memoires les plus recens. A son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Chartes

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Kashnor notes, "Shows the Gulf of California only reaching as high as the Bona Guia, but without the definite termination; also shows New Holland and part of New Zealand, with the tracks of Mendana, Dampier, Olivier, Tasman, Pelsart, Magellan and le Maire." This appears to be a later state of the 1700 map, see 093:180. The slant of South America has been corrected eastward, some new names appear on the west coast of Africa, and a new mountain range in Siberia. Image is lighter than 1700 original. See also 093:181, 105:244 and 105:245 for later editions. Cartouche - figures representing four continents. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: Shirley 603. Verso Text: MS notes: 245.

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