A new & accurate map of Mexico or New Spain together with California, New Mexico &c.
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| Call number | Status |
|---|---|
| G4410 [1752] .B69 |
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The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island
Images from the Glen McLaughlin Collection of California as an Island maps, a collection of nearly 750 maps obtained by Mr. McLaughlin over nearly 40 years. Included in the collection are hemisphere and world maps, celestial charts, title pages, globe gores and a medal. The dates range from 1622 to the mid-1800's.
- Digital collection
- 706 digital items
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767
Subjects
- Subjects
- Mexico > Maps > Early works to 1800.
- Central America > Maps > Early works to 1800.
- Southern States > Maps > Early works to 1800.
- Southwest, New > Maps > Early works to 1800.
- California as an island > Maps.
- Genre
- Early maps.
- Digital maps.
- Maps
- Local subject
- The Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1752
- Title variation
- New and accurate map of Mexico or New Spain together with California, New Mexico et cetera
- Map data
- Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000]. "English & French leagues, 20 to a degree" (W 120°--W 79°/N 36°--N 4°).
- Note
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Prime meridian: London.
- Title cartouche at bottom with illustration alongside depicting European figure holding a sword and standing above two Natives he has restrained.
- Inset: The Gallapagos Islands discovered & described by Capt. Cowley in 1684.
- At bottom left outside the border: "No. 110."
- At top left: "California, which has been Described and Represented as an Island, even by very modern Geographers, was Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino a Jesuit, to be a Peninsula between the Years 1698 and 1701 who, together with other Jesuit Missionaries, travelled thither by Land & converted, a great Number of Natives."
- At bottom left inside the neatline, under inset map: "West from the Lizard".
- At bottom right inside the neatline: "West Longitude from London".
- Note
- McLaughlin map number 1193.
