Historic Maps » Composite: Asia. by Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d, 1697-1782; (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle from 1799

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Author: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d, 1697-1782; (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Date: 1799

Short Title: Composite: Asia.

Publisher: London: Laurie & Whittle

Type: Composite Map

Obj Height cm: 143

Obj Width cm: 120

Scale 1: 11,000,000

Note: Digital composite of hand colored engraved map. Relief shown pictorially. Inset maps: Sketch of King Geo. IIIds Sound -- The discoveries made by the ship Duke on the south extremity of New Holland in 1791. Includes illustrated cartouche. Printed on 6 sheets; joined as 3.

World Area: Asia ; Indian Ocean

Country: Australia

Full Title: (Composite of) Asia and its islands according to d'Anville; divided into empires, kingdoms, states, regions, &c. &c. with the European possessions and settlements in the East Indies and an exact delineation of all the discoveries made in the eastern parts by the English under Captn. Cook, Vancouver & Peyrouse. London, Publish'd by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, Feby. 2d, 1799.

List No: 2310.055

Page No: (45-47)

Series No: 57

Publication Author: Kitchin, Thomas; Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Pub Date: 1804

Pub Title: (A new universal atlas, exhibiting all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, &c. &c. in the whole World; being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert (de Vaugondy) with many improvements by Major James Rennel, and other eminent geographers, including all the tracks and new discoveries of the British circumnavigators, Biron, Wallis, Carteret, Captain James Cook, Vancouver, Perouse, &c. &c. 6th Ed. ... London, R. Laurie & J. Whittle, 1804)

Pub Reference: OCLC 7160203. Cf P699; Shirley R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.LAU-1c (1799 ed.); NMM 375 (3rd ed. 1801)

Pub Note: See note field above.

Pub List No: 2310.000

Pub Type: World Atlas

Pub Maps: 76

Pub Height cm: 57

Pub Width cm: 41

Image No: 2310055

Institution: Rumsey Collection

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