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The West-India Atlas or A Compendious Description of the...
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Maps, plans and nautical charts
The West-India Atlas or A Compendious Description of the West-Indies : Consisting of a complete collection of... (1796?)
Section: Maps, plans and nautical charts
Uniform title: Caribe (Mar). Cartas náuticas. Varias escalas (1807-1816)
Title: The West-India Atlas or A Compendious Description of the West-Indies : Consisting of a complete collection of accurate charts with plans of the Horbours, Roads, Bays and Maps of the Separate Islands Taken from Actual surveys. Together with an Historical Account of the several countries an Islands which compose that part of the world... / By the late Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King ; and improved from the latest discoveries, the whole neatly engraved on eighty-four plates, which comprises sixty charts
Material or type of resouce Area: Varias escalas
Publication: London : Printed and Published by Lauire & Whittle, Map, Chart, and Prinstseller, N° 53, Fleet street, successors to the late Mr. Robert Sayer, [1796?]
Physical description: 1 atlas (IV, 28, [62]) : 66 mapas (algunos pleg.) ; 55 cm
Content type: Imagen (cartográfica ; fija ; bidimensional ; visual)
Media type: sin mediación
Notes: Comprende mapas del golfo de México, Caribe, América Central, parte septentrional de América del Sur y el Océano AtlánticoDedicatoria: "To Sir William Young, Bart. late Capitain-General and Governor in Chief of His Majesty's Island of Dominica and First commissiones for the Disposal of lands in the Ceded Islands, Follow of the Royal Society, & c, &c, &c. This West-India Atlas of Which he has been a munificent Promoter, is, by his permission, most Humbly Inscribed, by His respectful and Obliged Humble servant, Robert Sayer"En los preliminares del documento aparece la siguiente fecha: 12 th. May, 1794, pero se ha consignado como ffecha 1796, ya que ésta corresponde al mapa más moderno del atlasSobre el pie de imprenta original: "London : Printed for Robert Sayer, Fleet Street, 1794", aparece pegado el pie de imprenta actualLas escalas gráficas figuran expresadas en millas marinas inglesas, millas estatutarias, leguas marinas y brazas inglesas. Coordenadas referidas a los meridianos de Ferro y Londres. Orientados con lis en nudo de rumbos y rosa de los vientosRelieve representado por normales y de perfilIndica sondas batimétricas, bancos de arena, bajos, fondeaderos y calidad del fondoEn los preliminares del atlas aparece una escena relativa a la conquista
Subject / place /event: Atlas Cartas náuticas Mapas generales Perspectivas de costas Costas Golfos Elementos decorativos Siglo XVIII América del Sur México América Central Atlántico
Other authors: Jefferys, Thomas, ca. 1710-1771 Robert Laurie and James Whittle
UDC: (7/8)
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Maps
