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Map Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes.

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Title

  • Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes.

Names

  • López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802.
  • Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Juan de la, -1790, joint author.

Created / Published

  • [Madrid] 1755.

Headings

  • -  Nautical charts--Caribbean Area--Early works to 1800
  • -  Caribbean Area--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Caribbean Area

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:5,500,000.
  • -  Depths shown by soundings.
  • -  "Longitud ocidental del meridiano de Tenerife."
  • -  LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1685
  • -  Vault
  • -  AACR2: 100; 650/1; 651/2; 700

Medium

  • map 56 x 79 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G4391.P5 1755 .L6

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 74696149

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

López De Vargas Machuca, Tomás, and Juan De La Cruz Cano Y Olmedilla. Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes. [Madrid, 1755] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/74696149/.

APA citation style:

López De Vargas Machuca, T. & Cruz Cano Y Olmedilla, J. D. L. (1755) Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes. [Madrid] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/74696149/.

MLA citation style:

López De Vargas Machuca, Tomás, and Juan De La Cruz Cano Y Olmedilla. Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes. [Madrid, 1755] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/74696149/>.