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A Chart of the Straits of Magellan
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A Chart of West Falkland Island
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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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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 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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New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeake
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Kashnor notes, "A rare chart issued for the use of commanders of war-ships and transports during the American Revolution. Engraved on available blank spaces are minute instructions as to sailing into various harbours and the Chesapeake appears to have been of vital importance, for there is no doubt that copies were used during operations around Philadelphia." Submap of Herring Bay in Maryland. [Kashnor's description from 093:441, another copy, probably printed later.] Kashnor states circa. 1770. Submap: Plan of Herring Bay,in Maryland.. "with all the Shoals, Channels, Islands, Entrances, Soundings, and Sailing Marks, as far as the Navigable Part of the Rivers Patowmack, Patapsco and North-East. Drawn from Several Draughts made by the most Experienced Navigators, Chiefly from those of Anthony Smith Pilot of St. Marys; and compared with the Modern Surveys of Virginia and Maryland." Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Plane. Watermark: Crowned fleur-di-lis over IVC VI . Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 814 5 6.
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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 General Chart of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
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Kashnor notes, "Shows a good coastline to present-day Texas." Submaps of the Virgin Islands and Panama. See also 093:719. Submaps: Chart of the Virgin Islands; Chart of the Coast of Biruquete, Panama, and Veragua, from Point Solano to Point Burica.. "describing the Gulf and Windward Passages, Coasts of Florida, Louisiana and Mexico, Bay of Honduras and Musquito Shore; likewise the Coast of the Spanish Main to the Mouths of the Orinoco. Drawn fro the Surveys taken by Mr. Geo. Gaulo and others. The New Spanish Charts, &c. and adjusted from recent Observations, J. Foss Dessiou, Master of the Royal Navy. Approved by the Chart Committee of the Admiralty." Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 796 4 sheets 19.
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