A Map of the Whole World

Alternative Title:

New universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting the invention, structure, improvement, and uses, of the most considerable instruments, engines, and machines, with their nature, power, and operation, decyphered in fifty two copper-plates

Description:

B. Cole Sculp. Relief shown pictorially. California shown as a labeled island with a rounded northern coast with slight indentations and is visible on both the world map and America map. Details of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America located at corners of plate with a double hemisphere map depicted at center. "Geography." at top, "B. Cole Sculp." at bottom right, and "Plate XIX" at top right, outside the border. Appears in "A new universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting the invention, structure, improvement, and uses, of the most considerable instruments, engines, and machines, with their nature, power, and operation, decyphered in fifty two copper-plates". London: Printed for J. Coote, 1759. 2 vols.

Creator:

Coote, J. (John), -1808

Publisher:

Coote, J.

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

World maps

Date Issued:

1759

Rights:

Image from the Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/jb385pp4150