Format Map
Contributors Thornton, John
Dates 1700
Location Earth
Language English
Subjects Coasts
Earth
Pilot Guides
Title
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. /
Contributor Names
Thornton, John,
Created Published
London : John Thornton, [1700?]
Subject Headings
-  Pilot guides
-  Coasts
-  Earth.
Notes
-  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. DLC
-  LC copy imperfect: Mediterranean Sea map (plate 8) torn vertically along right fold. DLC
Medium
1 Atlas ([2], 10 P., [25] Double Leaves of Plates) : Maps (Some Folded) ; 47 Cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
G1059 .T4 1700
Repository
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id
G3201Tm Gct00234 Http://Hdl.Loc.Gov/Loc.Gmd/G3201Tm.Gct00234
Library of Congress Catalog Number
2010592349
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