Collection  C 003: Cutter World Map Collection: Map of the world, [1750?] click here to search map descriptions To thumbnail

                  Item Number: 1970:02007.18                Date of map: 1750                 Place of publication: Venice

Title: Mappe monde de nos connoissances nouvelle dediee au progres [map of the world]

   Cartographer (personal name): Santini, Francois                 Height (inches): 19                    Width (inches): 26.5

   This undated map (ca. 1750?), "dedicated to progress of knowledge and recognition of two hemispheres, one terrestrial and the other maritime," shows two hemispheres: one land, the other water.   It indicates the locations of some Indians and many settlements on the Eastern Seaboard of North America and in Europe and North Africa, and shows Greenland as a peninsula north of North America.  Includes the outline of Australia, four of the Great Lakes, and prime meridian line through Paris.  Curved projection.  

This map forms part of the Cutter World Map Collection, collection C 003, at the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College.
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