COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Dunn, Samuel
Date:
1787
Short Title:
A general map of the world or terraqueous globe.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
55
Obj Width cm:
123
Scale 1:
41,000,000
Note:
Engraved map on 2 sheets (comprising the northern half of the 4-sheet map ). Continent boundaries in outline color. Shows explorers' tracks. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ancillary maps of the solar system, the northern and southern hemispheres of the celestial globe, "An astronimical latitude & longitude analemma," other drawings, text and tables. David Rumsey Collection copy has the 2 sheets mounted together.; small portion at top cropped off.
Reference:
P4300.
World Area:
World
Region:
Solar System
Subject:
Celestial
Full Title:
A general map of the world or terraqueous globe; with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane systems. By Saml. Dunn, Mathematician. London: printed for Robert Sayer, no. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, January 6, 1787.
List No:
0411.001
Page No:
1
Series No:
3
Publication Author:
Kitchin, Thomas
Pub Date:
1790
Pub Title:
A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790).
Pub Reference:
P4300.
Pub Note:
Late issue. Many of the maps are double sheet. This atlas was later expanded to become the New Universal Atlas (see David Rumsey Collection copy). Some of these maps also appeared in the American Atlas by Jefferys. There are actually 23 large maps, on 35 connected sheets, produced from 62 copper plates. Maps are hand painted with outline and full color and bound in half leather tan marbled paper covered boards with "General Atlas" stamped in gold on the spine. Inscription inside front cover in pen-and-ink: R. Sayer pub, 53 Fleet ... 8th, 1791 ...
Pub List No:
0411.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
35
Pub Height cm:
55
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
0411001
Authors:
Dunn, Samuel
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
