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The world on Mercator's projection
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The world on Mercator's projection

Scale ca. 1:33,000,000. Hand colored. Mounted on cardboard and cloth backing. Relief shown pictorially. Discolored and brittle. Cartouche: H. Bridport, deld. sic, G. Murray, sct. Includes text "To find the distance of one place from another" and statistical table. Vault AACR2: 100; 650/1; 700/1; 700/2

Date
1820
Mapmaker / publisher
Melish, John; Harrison, Samuel; Bridport, Hugh; Murray, George
Scale
1:33,000,000
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
15,341 × 11,733 pixels

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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.

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"The world on Mercator's projection" (1820). Melish, John; Harrison, Samuel; Bridport, Hugh; Murray, George. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_world_on_Mercator%27s_projection,_LOC_78692120.jpg

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