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Title: L'Europe divisée selon l'etendue de ses principales parties, 1772 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2019-02
  • Coverage: 1772

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'Europe divisée selon l'etendue de ses principales parties : et dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mesrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. It was published by: L.-C. Desnos, rue St. Jacques à l'Ensegne du Globe in 1772. Scale [ca. 1:7,250,000]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Europe
  • Maps
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-92.168764, 113.56786, 87.125514, 12.682026)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-92.168764, 113.56786, 87.125514, 12.682026)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Desnos, Louis-Charles, 1725-1805. L'Europe divisée selon l'etendue de ses principales parties, 1772 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5700-1772-d4

Format

GeoTIFF