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  Map of the World

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows a good coastline to the North-West and Alaska, locating New Albion, Nootka Sound, River of the West, and shows Cook's track to Icy Cape." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving.

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  The World with the Latest Discoveries. Drawn & Engraved by James Wallis

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  Kashnor notes, "Locates Drake's Bay and New Albion, Nootka Sound and Port Banks." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 303.

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  New Map of the World, with Captain Cook's Tracks, his Discoveries and those of the other Circumnavigators

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  Kashnor notes, "Probably the last map issued before the discoveries of Vancouver and La Perouse. Locates New Albion, Drake's Harbor, Port Monterey, Dixon's Strait, Nootka and Fuca Entrance." See 105:271M for a later version (1812). Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 48.

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  Map of the Terrestrial Globe; with the latest discoveries

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows the North-West Coast and Part of Kamtschatka, also Australia and New Zealand." Shows tracks of Cook's voyages. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Watermark: Fleur-de-lis, VI. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: 34.

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  Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula / auctore Petro Goos

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  Kashnor notes, "Shows California [as an island] and locates New Albion and Port Sr. Franco. Draco, also shows a good map of New Holland and part of the Coast of New Zealand." Shirley dates as 1666, states original atlas reference. Map can be seen in situ in RB 32671. Elaborately engraved map. Two cartouches, one Latin, one Dutch. Two polar submaps. Elaborate decoration, sun and moon, with birds and bats above, four season figures below, four windheads. Polar projection submaps. Prime meridian: Teneriffe. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 438; BM Maps, Vol. 6, column 852 C.8.d.3; Koeman, Goos 1; Schilder, Map 88; Wagner 393. Verso Text: MS. note: 93/ 63 (on backing).

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  Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula / auctore Nicolao Visscher

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  Kashnor notes, "The Western Hemisphere shows the North-West Coast of America as far as the supposed Strait of Anain, with California as an island, also New Zealand, and some Pacific Island groups. The Western hemisphere shows the greater part of New Holland; with the line of the south coast of Van Diemen's Land." Kashnor says, "ca. 1680", Shirley states 1658. Two polar submaps. Extensive allegorical figures in surround, artwork by Berchem. For later borrowing of artwork, see RB 105:288. MS. note: No. 1(?) upper left. Prime meridian: Teneriffe. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 406; BM Maps 920(9); Phillips 5945; Koeman, Me.66; Wagner 379.. Verso Text: MS. note: 57.

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