MEDIA INFORMATION COLLECTION NAME: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Record Author: Dunn, Samuel Date: 1787 Short Title: Composite: World or terraqueous globe. Publisher: Robert Sayer Publisher Location: London Type: Atlas Map Type: Composite Map Obj Height cm: 107 Obj Width cm: 123 Scale 1: 41,000,000 Note: Engraved map on 4 sheets. Continent boundaries in outline color. Shows explorers' tracks. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ancillary maps, charts and drawings of the solar system, the northern and southern hemispheres of the celestial globe, "An astronimical latitude & longitude analemma," "A chart of the world according to Mercator's projection with the Rhumb lines," "Selenography or a map of the Moon according to Father Riccioli," "The vicissitude of seasons explained," "The Analemma," two drawings entitled "The art of dialing by a common globe," "A Universal scale," and text. David Rumsey Collection copy has the 4 sheets mounted as 2. Small portion at top cropped off. (W 180--E 180/N 90--S 90) Reference: P4300. World Area: World Subject: Celestial Full Title: (Composite of) A general map of the world or terraqueous globe; with all the new discoveries and marginal delineations, containing the most interesting particulars in the solar, starry and mundane systems. By Saml. Dunn, Mathematician. London: printed for Rt. Sayer, Map, Chart and Printseller, 53 Fleet Street, 1787. List No: 0411.003 Page No: 1-2 Series No: 5 Publication Author: Kitchin, Thomas Pub Date: 1790 Pub Title: A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790). Pub Reference: P4300. Pub Note: Late issue. Many of the maps are double sheet. This atlas was later expanded to become the New Universal Atlas (see David Rumsey Collection copy). Some of these maps also appeared in the American Atlas by Jefferys. There are actually 23 large maps, on 35 connected sheets, produced from 62 copper plates. Maps are hand painted with outline and full color and bound in half leather tan marbled paper covered boards with "General Atlas" stamped in gold on the spine. Inscription inside front cover in pen-and-ink: R. Sayer pub, 53 Fleet ... 8th, 1791 ... Pub List No: 0411.000 Pub Type: World Atlas Pub Maps: 35 Pub Height cm: 55 Pub Width cm: 41 Image No: 0411003 Download 1: Full Image Download Download 2: GeoViewer for JP2 and SID files Authors: Dunn, Samuel Collection: Rumsey Collection Composite: World or terraqueous globe. Related BUY PRINT EXPORT