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A Chart of West Falkland Island

Description: Contains submap of other Falkland Islands. North is towards bottom of map. "from an Actual Survey by Lieut. Thos. Edgar of the Royal Navy, in the Years 1786 & 1787." "Engraved by T. Foot, Weston Place, Battle Bridge." Submap: Chart of Falkland Islands.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: Jn. H. Coleman Falkland Island No. 3 915.
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Date: 1 January 1797
Call number: 105:915 M
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Chart of West Falkland Island, from an Actual Survey by Lieut. Thos. Edgar of the Royal Navy, in the Years 1786 & 1787

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Submap: Chart of Falkland Islands.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 657 22.

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A New Chart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Submap and lat-long table. Published separately per Kershaw. Cartouche with walruses. Submap: Mingan and Esquimaux Islands Enlarged. Views: Gaspe Peninsula; Capes of Nova Scotia. Table of latitude and longitude for towns and points.. "Compiled from the Original Drawings of Actual Surveys; preserving the Natural Configuration of the Several Coasts & Headlands; The whole Adjusted by Astronomical Observations, by Thos. Wright, Surveyor General of the Island of St. John. 1790" Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheSub-mapsVignettes. References: Kershaw 615. Verso Text: MS notes: 786 10 1st. 2d..

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A Chart of the Straits of Magellan

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Submap with Falkland Islands. "Inlarged from the chart Published at Madrid in 1769, by Don Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla of the Royal Academy of St. Fernando, and Improved from the Observations and Surveys of Captns. Byron, Wallis and Carteret compared with those of Monsr. de Bouganville." Submap: Chart of Magellania with Falkland's Islands.. Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial & hachures. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned fleur-de-lis over LVG. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 61 922 .

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A Chart of the Antilles, or Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles

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Comparative elevation views of many islands. See also 093:722 for another copy. Submap: Positions Ascertained by Courses and Distances given; on a scale reduced to the Third. Vignettes: Twenty three views of various islands from shipboard for identification purposes.. "By L. S. de la Rochette MDCCLXXXIV. (1784) From the situation of the Caribs Islands, compared with that of the Westernmost Isles of the Mexican Gulf, They are named Windward Islands by the Spaniards, as well as by the French, the Dutch, and the Danes; while the English, who consider the position of those Islands respectively to Barbadoies give them the name Leeward Islands, or Leeward Charibee Islands." "W. Palmer sculp." Prime meridian: London. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsVignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 947.

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A New Plan of the Island of Grenada from The Original French Survey of Monsieur Pinel; Taken in 1763 by Order of Government, and now Published with the Addition of English Names, Alterations of Property and other Improvements to the Present Year 1796: by Lieut. Daniel Paterson, Assistant to the Quarter Master General of His Majesty's Forces

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Kashnor notes, "Dedicated to Lieut.-Gen. Robert Melvill, Governor-in-Chief of the Ceded Islands." Submap: Plan of the Twon of St. Georgr and Fort Royal.. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, paces. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 403 22.

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A Chart of the Windward Passage between the Islands of Jamaica Hispaniola and Cuba with the Other Passages to the Northward of Hispaniola

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Submap: Mortant Kays Vignettes: Four island views from shipboard.. "From the Journals, Observations and Draughts of Mr. Chas. Roberts, Master in the Rl. Navy, Compared with the Pilote de l'Isle de St. Dominique of M. de Chastenet Puysugur 1787. & with the descriptionm des Bouquements of M. Bellin 1768." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsVignettes. Verso Text: MS text: 949 5.

105:949 M

A Chart of West Falkland Island

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