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Title: Bowles's new four-sheet map of the world on Mercator's projection

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Alternate titles

  • Bowles's new four-sheet map of the world on Mercator's projection : exhibiting the several quarters of the globe divided into their respective empires, kingdoms, states, &c., agreeable to the latest treaties and political regulations now existing; together with all the new discoveries and most interesting tracks of those eminent circumnavigators, Cook, Byron, Bougainville, Perouse, Vancouver &c.

Dates

  • Issued: 1807
  • Coverage: 1807
  • Coverage: 1807 to 1807

Summary

1 map : hand col., dissected and mounted on canvas ; 101 x 117 cm., folded in slipcase 21 x 14 cm.

Relief shown pictorially.

Prime meridian: London.

Includes latitudinary and longitudinary scale.

Shows routes and years of 10 voyages.

Engraved by B. Baker.

Decorative title cartouche depicting voyaging supplies, a ship, and two explorers holding a map and a sextant.

Includes notes on finding the distance betwixt two places.

Top border shows hours, east from London.

Subjects

  • World maps.
  • World maps Early works to 1800 Facsimiles.
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • BBoxVerified
  • bboxSprintJune2023
  • -180TO180
  • World
  • Maps

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-180,180,90,-90)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-180,180,90,-90)

Provider

University of Michigan

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • This map is in the public domain.

Citation

Bowles & Carver. Bowles's new four-sheet map of the world on Mercator's projection. World maps. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clark1ic/x-005247144/39015095421411_0001

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • eng