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New Description of Carolina
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Contains Royal coat-of-arms. Kashnor dates as ca. 1680. MS note: 372. Royal coat-of-arms.. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: Two text pages on description of Carolina and Florida obscured by pasted over backing..
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Map of the Isle of Cuba, with the Bahama Islands, Gulf of Florida, and Windward Passage: Drawn from English and Spanish Surveys. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty
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Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Fleur-di-lis on coat of arms. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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A New Chart of the Sea Coast of Newfoundland, new Scotland, new England, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, and part of Carolina
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Kashnor notes, "a very fine old chart." Kashnor dates as [1685]. Royal coat of arms.. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 335 (on backing).
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To His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales &c. &c. &c. This Chart of the West Indies, Is humbly Inscribed by His Royal Highness Faithful & Obedient Servant Joseph Smith Speer
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Certified correct by Plantation Office, Whitehall January 25, 1774. Color coded by nationalities. Cartouche: British coat of arms. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes : 295818 69.
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Carte de l'Isle de Saint Domingue Dresée en 1722 por le l'usage du Roy Sur les memoires de Mr. Frezier Ingenieur de. S. M. el autres assujetis aux Observations Astronomiques. Par G. Delisle premier Geographe du Roy, de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences. A Paris Chex l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge
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See 093:781M for a later copy. Cartouche: Framed w. coat of arms.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross device. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 780.
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To the Right Honorouble Charles, Earl of Sunderland, and Baron Spenser of Wormleighton, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; &ca. This Map of South America, According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations is most humbly Dedicated by Your Lordship's most humble servant, Herman Moll Geographer
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View of Potosi, rant by Moll against French mapmakers. See 105:862M for another copy. Cartouche: Volcano's exploding, natives, coat of arms. Vignette: Potosi, with description of mining operations. Moll's tirade against DeLisle's map.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 629.
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