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Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas - being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in LOC 2010592349-15

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English: Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Accompanied by manuscript note from the dealer, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles dated Nov. 4, 1909 (on sheet 26 x 21 cm., folded in pocket inside front cover) with details regarding other versions of this atlas. LC copy imperfect: Mediterranean Sea map (plate 8) torn vertically along right fold.
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Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c.
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G1059 .T4 1700
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https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3201pm.gct00234/
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A Chart of the Mediterranean Sea
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Source https://www.loc.gov/item/2010592349/
Author Thornton, John
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American Memory · General Maps · Catalog · Geography And Map Division
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Coasts · Nautical Charts · Early Maps · Maps · Early Works To 1800 · World Atlases · Pilot Guides · Earth

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