Trinidad. / (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle / 1800

Trinidad. (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1800

Trinidad. / (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle / 1800

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Full Title: Plan of the isle of Trinidad, from actual surveys made in the year 1797. Published 12th Decr. 1800 by Robert Laurie & James Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London. Engraved by George Allen, 19 Shoe Lane, Fleet Str.

Author: (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Date: 1800

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Author: (Kitchin, Thomas); Robert Laurie & James Whittle

Date: 1800

Short Title: Trinidad.

Publisher: London: Laurie & Whittle

Type: Atlas Map

Object Height cm: 50

Object Width cm: 64

Scale 1: 180,000

Note: Hand colored engraved map. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables of political divisions (quarters) and population. Unlike other maps in the Rumsey Collection copy of the atlas, this one is laid in and it lacks a number printed in dark ink (usually on verso) -- in this copy it's written in pencil.

Country: Trinidad and Tobago

List No: 2310.085

Page No: (71)

Series No: 87

Engraver or Printer: Allen, George

Published In: (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, 1802)

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

Publication Date: 1802

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

Publication Note: See note field above.

Publication List No: 2310.000

Publication Type: World Atlas

Publication Maps: 76

Publication Height cm: 57

Publication Width cm: 41

Image No: 2310085

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