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Anthony Finley: The World on Mercator's Projection.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anthony Finley  (1790–1840)  wikidata:Q18507773
 
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507773
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The World on Mercator's Projection.
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English: This is Finley’s desirable 1827 map of the World. Covers the entire world on a Mercator Projection. Identifies deserts, rivers, many countries, and numerous cities. Color coded according to continent with Australia (New Holland) attached to Asia. Does not show Antarctica, but does identify South Shetland just north of the Arctic Circle. The original owner has added manuscript annotations to the upper and lower margins (extending briefly into the map in upper section). This annotation, in a flowing 19th century script, shows time zones from Washington (upper margin) and from London (lower Margin). Mile scale and title in the upper right quadrant. Engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas .
Date 1827 (undated)
Dimensions height: 9 in (22.8 cm); width: 11.5 in (29.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11.5U218593
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Geographicus link: World-finley-1827
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Finley, Anthony, A New General Altas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe, Together with the several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities, and corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries, Philadelphia, 1827.

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