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La plus grande partie de la Manche, qui contient les côtes d'Angleterre et celles de France, les bords maritimes de Picardie
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La plus grande partie de la Manche, qui contient les côtes d'Angleterre et celles de France, les bords maritimes de Picardie.
Publication
[Augsburg] : Aux depens de Matthieu Seutter, [1745?]
Physical Description
1 map : hand colored ; 48 x 56 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale [ca. 1:600,000] (W 2°06'00"--E 2°14'00"/N 52°08'00"--N 49°13'00").
Notes
Map title in French. England place names in English and all other place names in French.
Depths shown by soundings.
"Avec Privilege du Vicariat."
Appears in: Atlas novus, sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia ... Augsburg : apud Matthaeo Seutter, [1945?] 2 vols. (Vol. 1, map no. 27).
Two bar scales, one in "Liieües communes de France," the other in "Lieües communes de Allemagne."
Prime meridian is likely Ferro; coordinates were converted to express Greenwich longitude.
Ornamental cartouche decorated with mythological figures.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
French
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2008
Subjects
Genre/Form
Early maps.
Early works.
Maps.
Nautical charts.
Nautical charts.
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