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Inset shows Brazilian Indians making and serving beverage.; Includes images of European, Native American, and Japanese vessels.; French text on verso, from 1628 Mercator atlas.; Copy 2 is uncolored with Latin text on verso from 1619(?) Mercator atlas.; Copy 3 is colored with Latin text on verso in: Mercator, G., Atlas sive cosmographicae ..., 1607, p. 345.; Copy 4 is colored with French text on verso in: Mercator, G., L'Atlas ou meditations ..., 1613, p. 363.; Copy 5 is uncolored with French text on verso in: Mercator, G., Atlas sive cosmographicae ..., 1619, p. 367.; Copy 6 is colored with French text on verso in: Mercator, G., Atlas ou representation du monde ..., 1633, p. 689 (not in Burden).
[s.n] (publisher)
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612. (creator)
[1606]
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Relief shown by hachures.; Upper right margin: XXXVIII.
S. & G. Neele (publisher)
Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824. (creator)
Neele, G. (George) (contributor)
1813
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3rd Philadelphia ed., 1821, from the London ed. of 1817, with corrections and additions.; Relief shown pictorially.; Shows political divisions of North and South America and routes of exploration taken by Columbus, Cortez, and Pizarro.; Includes notes and text flanking maps in left, right, and lower panels : America--Political Divisions of America--Discovery and First Settlement of America by Europeans.; Young & Delleker, Sc.; In right upper panel corner: No. 67.; "Printed by T.H. Palmer for M. Carey & Son, from the London Edition of 1817, with corrections and additions."
M. Carey & Son (publisher)
Paguenaud, E. (creator)
Aspin, Jehoshaphat, active 18th century-19th century.; Palmer, Thomas H., 1782-1861.; Lavoisne, C. V.; M. Carey & Son.; Young & Delleker. (contributor)
1821
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Prime meridian: Paris; Relief shown by hachures.; Several scales shown, including one for English miles used to estimate scale.; Engraved by: Barrière frères, rue de la Harpe no. 35.; Lettered by: Pelicier.; Column of text to left of map provides information on the Americas.; Large "40" printed in upper right corner of sheet.; Watermark.
Chez Fx. Delamarche et Chles. Dien, ingénieurs-mécaniciens pour les globes et sphères, rue du Jardinet no. 13 (publisher)
Delamarche, Félix (creator)
Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786.; Pelicier, A. (Alphonse); Dien, Charles, 1809-1870.; Barrière frères. (contributor)
1820
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Later state (fifth?) of map dating from 1790.; Prime meridians: L'lise de Fer and Paris.; Relief shown pictorially.
Chez l'auteur [Dezauche] rue des Noyers (publisher)
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. (creator)
Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773.; Dezauche, Jean Claude, active 1770-1824.; Cook, James, 1728-1779. (contributor)
1808
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Prime meridians: L'lise de Fer and Paris.; Relief shown pictorially.; State 3 of Dezauche reissue.
Chez l'auteur rue des Noyers (publisher)
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. (creator)
Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773.; Dezauche, Jean Claude, active 1770-1824.; Cook, James, 1728-1779. (contributor)
1800
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Relief shown pictorially.; Title from lower right corner.; "No XXII."; Text in French describing the physical and material description of the American continent, the discovery of America by Columbus, geographic and political divisions of America, history and discoveries, Cortez's conquest of Mexico, Pizarre's conquest of Peru, and the creation of the United States from the British colonies.
L'imprimerie de P. Didot l'ainé (publisher)
Didot, Pierre, 1761-1853. (creator)
1806
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Relief shown by hachures.; Plate probably from: Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London : Chapman & Hall, 1844.; Includes tables of number of animals on the globe, vegetables and highest mountains.
Published by and under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 59 Lincoln Inn Fields (publisher)
J. & C. Walker (Firm) (creator)
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (contributor)
1844
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"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. in ... the Southern District of New York."; Relief shown by hachures.; In upper right margin: No. X.; Verso: "General view of the world" (text)
J.H. Colton & Co (publisher)
J.H. Colton & Co. (creator)
1855
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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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