COLLECTION NAME:
Old Maps Collection
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MUST~2~2
Old Maps Collection
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Barcode:
4687820500654
identifier
4687820500654
Barcode
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Title:
Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system
title
Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system
Title
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Original Title:
Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system
full_title
Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : laid down from the best observations and newest discoveries particularly those lately made in the south seas by Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bouganville, Cook, and other celebrated circumnavigators, illustrated with a variety of useful projections and representations of the heavenly bodies the most approved astronomical and geographical definitions tables, and problems with an easy and familiar explanation of the most curious and interesting phoenomena in the universal system
Original Title
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Contributor:
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
contributor
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Contributor
false
Category:
Hemispheres
category
Hemispheres
Category
false
Type:
Printed
type
Printed
Type
false
Language:
English
language
English
Language
false
Create Year:
1780
date
1780
Create Year
false
Format:
JPEG2000, 15427 × 12641, 29.5MB
format
JPEG2000, 15427 × 12641, 29.5MB
Format
false
Scale:
Scale not given
scale
Scale not given
Scale
false
Physical Map Dimension (cm):
106 × 130
obj_height_cm
106 × 130
Physical Map Dimension (cm)
false
Note:
Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma -- Universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, & c. & c. -- Chart of the world according to Mercator's projection -- Selenography or a map of the moon -- Vicissitude of seasons explained -- Analemma.
note
Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma -- Universal scale of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, secants, & c. & c. -- Chart of the world according to Mercator's projection -- Selenography or a map of the moon -- Vicissitude of seasons explained -- Analemma.
Note
false
Note:
Macao was marked on coast of Pearl River Estuary in this map.
note
Macao was marked on coast of Pearl River Estuary in this map.
Note
false
Note:
Macao in World Maps
note
Macao in World Maps
Note
false
Subject:
Voyages around the world
subject
Voyages around the world
Subject
false
Geographic Area:
World
geographic_area
World
Geographic Area
false
Pub Year:
[1780?]
pub_year
[1780?]
Pub Year
false
Pub location:
London
pub_location
London
Pub location
false
Provenance:
Library of Congress Map Collections
source
Library of Congress Map Collections
Provenance
false