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NIEUWE WERELD KAART, waar in de REIZEN van den Hr. ANSON Rondsom de Wereld met een gestipte Linie worden aangewezen

Description:

In English. With title: A CHART, SHEWING The Track of the Centurion round the WORLD. R.W. Seale del. et Sculp. (lower right). To front the Title. (upper left). Issued in: A Voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, by George Anson ... Second Edition / by Richard Walter. -- London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLVIII (1748). Reissued many times with the world map included in some of the editions (3rd-7th, 14th and 15th) up to the fifteen published in 1776.

In Dutch, with title changed to: NIEUWE WERELD KAART, waar in de REIZEN van den Hr. ANSON Rondsom de Wereld met een gestipte Linie worden aangewezen. Engraved by Isaac Tirion. Issued in: Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand Atlas ... Amsterdam, 1744-69.

Sabin 1626-1629; Clancy 152.

[George Anson].

California labeled as such with two northern bays. Four islands separate California from the mainland. North America slopes to the east directly above the island and then is left blank.The tracks of George Anson’s voyages on the Centurion in 1740-1744 are shown.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/xg677xs6047

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/xg677xs6047, 1067, and 1067-02

Creator:

Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

California as an island--Maps and World--Maps

Theme:

Imagery

Rights:

Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false