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A Chart of the Antilles, or Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles
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Chart of the Antilles, or Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles, 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
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Comparative elevation views of many islands. See also 105:947M 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. MS note: 722. Prime meridian: London. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsVignettes.
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A Chart of the Gulf of Florida or New Bahama Channel, Commonly called the Gulf Passage, between Florida, the Isle of Cuba, & the Bahama Islandes: From the Journals, Observations and Draughts of Mr. Chas. Roberts, Master of the Rl. Navy, Compared with the Surveys of Mr. George Gauld &ca
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Table of longitude and latitude for principal points on the map. Comments on Gulf Stream temperature differences. Submap: The islands and Kays from Booby Rocks to Hog Island (New Providence Island). Vignettes: Seven views of island profiles.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-mapsVignettes. Verso Text: MS notes: 391 4.
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A New Chart of the Leeward or Caribbee Islands with the Virgin Islands and Portorico, Comprehending, also Part of Hispaniola and of the Spanish Main, with the adjacent islands of Tinidad, Margarita, Bonaie, Curasoa, Aruba, &ca
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MS note: 13 (left edge). "Regulated and Ascertained by Astronomical Observations by Capt. Holland." Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: no. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 963 D21.
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A New Chart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
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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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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.
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