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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Europe Divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States Republics, & c.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville  (1697–1782)  wikidata:Q733907 s:en:Author:Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville q:it:Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
 
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Description French geographer and cartographer
Date of birth/death 11 July 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 28 January 1782 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q733907
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Europe Divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States Republics, & c.
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English: A large and dramatic 1794 wall map of Europe on two panels. Published by Laurie and Whittle based the work of the important cartographer J. B. B. D'Anville. Upper sheet covers from Iceland to Russia and from the Arctic to Calais and Astrakhan. The southern sheet covers from Portugal eastward as far as the Caspian Sea, and from Hungary south to northern Africa. Includes Iceland and parts of Asia including Turkey and Palestine / Israel. To either side of the both maps are tables regarding distances, statistics, and population. Offers color coding in outline style and notes both political and topographical features, including mountains, rivers, cities, and undersea banks and shoals. Along the bottom of the map is a series of miniature naval flags for each of the many countries and cities or the world, ranging from Germany to Japan to Ethiopia. The flag of the fledgling United States, with thirteen stars, appears in the lower right hand corner was clearly added as an afterthought. Prepared from work by D'Anville and published by Laurie & Whittle in Kitchin's 1794 General Atlas .
Date 1794 (undated)
Dimensions height: 42 in (106.6 cm); width: 49 in (124.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,42U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,49U218593
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Geographicus link: Europe-anville-1794
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Kitchin, Thomas, Kitchin's 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 last edition of D'Anville and Robert with many improvements by other eminent geographers, engraved on Sixty-Two plates, comprising Thirty Seven maps., Laurie & Whittle, London, 1797.

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