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subject : America--Maps
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"Drawn & engraved for Thomson's new general atlas 1st July 1813."; "No. 41" in upper right corner to right of margin; Prime meridian: Greenwich.; Scale estimated from latitude spacing.
[J. Thomson] (publisher)
J. & G. Menzies. (creator)
Thomson, J. (Engraver) (contributor)
1813
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Shows Ocenunus Occidentalis [Atlantic Ocean], western coasts of Great Britain, Europe, and Africa, and vague impression of Florida, the West Indies, the northern coast of South America to the mouth of the Amazon River, and the Gulf of Mexico.; Includes note [in Latin] discussing Christopher Columbus' 1492 discovery of "Spagnolia" [Española].; On verso: Tabula terræ nouæ [text in Latin], 28.
[Servetus] (publisher)
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519. (creator)
Fries, Lorenz, approximately 1490-1531.; Servetus, Michael, 1511?-1553. (contributor)
[1541]
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