Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Description

1. 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col.; 2 hemispheres each 59 cm. in diam., on 106 x 128 cm., sheets 106 x 66 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Stars > Charts, diagrams, etc > Early works to 1800
2. Western Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800
3. World maps > Early works to 1800
4. Solar system > Maps > Early works to 1800
5. Eastern Hemisphere > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 02-322

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Shows tracks of ship voyages.
3. Includes text, diagrams, and tables.
4. Ancillary maps and diagrams: The solar system -- The Northern Hemisphere [constellations] -- The Southern Hemisphere [constellations] -- An astronomical latitude & longitude analemma -- The art of dialing by a common globe -- The analemma -- The vicissitude of seasons explained -- Selenography or a map of the moon ... -- A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection ... -- An universal scale ...

Author

1. Dunn, Samuel, -1794.

Title

1. 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 system / by Saml. Dunn, mathematician.

Imprint

1. London : Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street ..., January 6, 1787.

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:40,000,000. At equator] (W 180⁰--E 180⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰).

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 02-322