A map of South America : containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Granada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia : from Mr. d'Anville with several improvements and additions, and the newest discoveries

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Title: A map of South America : containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Granada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia : from Mr. d'Anville with several improvements and additions, and the newest discoveries
Creator: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782, Kitchin, Thomas, d. 1784, and Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, creator
Published / Created: 1787 July 1
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer
Description: Also appeared in Kitchin's General atlas describing the whole universe. London : Printed for Robert Sayer, [1780].
Includes descriptive notes and text "Division of South America with a summary account of its trade," and large ornamental cartouche.
Inset map: Chart of the Falkland's Islands : named by the French Malouine Islands, and discovered by Hawkins in the year 1595. Scale [ca. 1:2,000,000].
No. 43 of 43 maps bound together in composite atlas.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Relief shown pictorially; depths by soundings.
Scale [ca. 1:7,900,000].
Sheets mounted together to form 2 sheets.
Extent: 1 map on 4 sheets
98 x 116 cm., sheets 55 x 63 cm.
color illustration
Language: English

Format: cartographic
Genre: Atlases
Engravings
Hand coloring
Maps
Maps in books
Subject (Geographic): Falkland Islands --Maps --Early works to 1800
South America --Maps --Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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