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Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

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Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

description

Summary

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps.
Engraved title page.
Phillips, 3455
Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Accompanied by manuscript note from the dealer, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles dated Nov. 4, 1909 (on sheet 26 x 21 cm., folded in pocket inside front cover) with details regarding other versions of this atlas.
LC copy imperfect: Mediterranean Sea map (plate 8) torn vertically along right fold.

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Date

01/01/1700
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Contributors

Thornton, John, 1641-1708.
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

Public Domain

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