A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.
Scale ca. 1:20,000,000. Title from sheets 1 and 2. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. Shows nautical exploration routes. "Published according to act of Parliament, Feb. 19, 1753, by T. Jefferys. at the corner of St. Martins Lane Charing Cross." Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Vault AACR2: 100; 440/1; 651/1; 651/2
- Date
- 1753
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Jefferys, Thomas; Green, John
- Scale
- 1:20,000,000
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- chart
- Sheets
- 5
- Original size
- 8,640 × 6,757 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"A chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia." (1753). Jefferys, Thomas; Green, John. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_chart_of_North_and_South_America,_including_the_Atlantic_and_Pacific_Oceans,_with_the_nearest_coasts_of_Europe,_Africa_and_Asia._LOC_75692294-1.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 6392.
All 5 sheets
Each sheet links to its file at the archive; the image link is the full-size scan.
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