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Edward Wright's map of the then known world : for Hakluyt's Principal Navigations. Reproduced from the original in the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
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The Cassini World Map of 1696
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[World Map, The Principals of Navigation, Hakluyt, Richard]
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Map state 1. Two explanatory texts regarding how and why this map was made. Note this is essentially a portolan chart showing coastal names and little inland information. Cartouches: Rolled with coat of arms. Two additional framed areas with descriptive text. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 3440 V.3.
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A new and most exact map of America described by N.I. Vischer and don into English enlarged and corrected acording to I. Bleau and others with the habits of ye people & ye manner of ye Cheife Sitties ye like never before. London. Printed colloured and are to be sold by John Overton at ye White Horse neere the Fountaine Tavern Without Newgate
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A New and Accurate Map of the Known World
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Kashnor notes, "Represents New Guinea as a peninsula, and marks "Holy Ghost Land," i.e. part of the north-eastern extremity of Australia." [In the western hemisphere it is called Tierra de Espirita Sancto.] Kashnor dates as ca. 1720. Cartouche: leaves & pediments Vignettes: Four continents depicted as seated female figures. Depiction of world without water, lower margin.. "Drawn from the latest & most Authentic Surveys assisted by the best & most approved Modern Maps Charts &c. Wherein all the late Discoveries & Improvemts. are carefully Delineated. The whole being Regulated by Astron. Observations by Eman. Bowen." Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheVignettesFigures . Verso Text: MS note: 982.
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A new map of the whole world with the trade winds according to ye latest and most exact observations by H. Moll, Geographer, 1727
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