Detail View: JCB Map Collection: South America corrected from the observation communicated to the Royal Society"s of London & Paris by John Senex, at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet
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Accession Number:
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30607
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File Name:
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30607-000
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Call number:
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Cabinet G710 /1.1
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Map title:
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South America corrected from the observation communicated to the Royal Society"s of London & Paris by John Senex, at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet
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Place of Publication:
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London
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Publisher:
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Printed for T. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhil, & Robt. Sayer in Fleet Stret[sic]
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Publication date:
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[ca. 1755]
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Map size height:
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96 cm.
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Map size width:
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65 cm.
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Item description:
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Engraved map. colored
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Geographical description:
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Map of South America includes a number of sea voyages: Sharpe in 1681, Halley in 1700, la Roche in 1675, Magellan in 1520, Vespucci in 1502 In cartouche at lower left, dedication "To Edmund Halley. LLD." "Engrav'd by Iohn Senex" at lower left. Title cartouche, "H. Hulsbergh Sculp:". Decorative cartouche includes allegorical figure of an Indian woman as America, an alligator or iguana, scene of native Americans cannibals.
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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Later state of the plate, imprint altered.
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References:
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Phillips, Maps:796; BMPM 13/220
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Geographic Area:
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South America
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Normalized date:
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1755
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LC bibliographic number:
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b54057966
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Creator:
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Senex, John, d. 1740
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