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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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Map of the World
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A New and Accurate Map of the Known World
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A map of America or the New World : wherein are introduced all the known parts of the Western Hemisphere from the map of D'Anville with the necessary alterations and the addition of the discoveries made since the year of 1761
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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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The World with the Latest Discoveries. Drawn & Engraved by James Wallis
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