<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>A chart of North and South America : including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia : according to the preliminary articles of peace signed at Versailles, 20 Jany. 1783.</dc:title><dc:date>[1783?]</dc:date><dc:description>"Publish'd according to act of Parliament, 10 June 1775, by Robt. Sayers &amp; J. Bennett, No. 53 in Fleet Street."</dc:description><dc:description>Chart containing part of the Icy Sea with the adjacent coast of Asia and America -- Chart comprizing Greenland with the countries and islands about Baffins Bay and part of Hudsons Bay -- Chart containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian discoveries to the north ... -- North America and the West Indies, with the opposite coasts of Europe and Africa -- Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the south of the line, with the islands dispersed thro' the same -- South America with the adjacent islands in the Southern Ocean and South Sea.</dc:description><dc:description>Includes text, historical and geographical notes, ill. of ships, and tables of comparative astronomical observations.</dc:description><dc:description>Individual sheets marked I-VI below neat line at right.</dc:description><dc:description>Possibly from Thomas Jefferys' American atlas.</dc:description><dc:description>Prime meridian: London and Ferro.</dc:description><dc:description>Relief shown pictorially.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheets pasted together to make 3 maps. Sheets measure 55 x 116.5 cm. or smaller. Cross Collection nos. 67 and 136.</dc:description><dc:description>Shows nautical exploration routes.</dc:description><dc:description>Title from sheets 1 and 2.</dc:description><dc:format>cartographic</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>