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Description:

With one cartouche over each hemisphere. Small cartouche at lower left below western hemisphere with the name of Ah.mad al-Qura‘i¯ [work of]. Three latitudinal diagrams added at bottom. California as an island without place names, but labeled. Very similar cartography to the 1689 Sanson map “Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique...” Double hemispheric map in Ottoman Turkish. Cartouche over each hemisphere. Goodrich (Figure 20, Map #19, State 1); Koeman II, p. 549. Issued in: Cihanüma / Kâtib Çelebi. -- Istanbul : Ibrahim Müteferrika, 1732. Published with the oval projection map of the world (Entry 1005).

Creator:

İbrahim Müteferrika, 1674?-1745

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

California as an island--Maps and World Maps

Theme:

Imagery

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.

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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

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JPEG2000

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https://purl.stanford.edu/xg697qz3110