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Author/Creator:Burr, David H., 1803-1875, cartographer.
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Title:The world, on Mercator's projection [cartographic material] / by David H. Burr.
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Published/Created:Boston : Published by J. Haven, 86 State St., 1850.
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Physical Description:1 map ; 42 x 53 cm
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Links:View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
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Cartographic detail:Scale [ca. 1:74,000,000. At the equator] ; Mercator projection (W 180°--E 180°/N 80°--S 70°).
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Local Notes:BEIN 11 1850: Imperfect: chipped and trimmed along neat lines.
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Notes:Relief shown by abbreviated form lines.
"Showing the different routes to California, and distance by each, routes of different navigators, route of the contemplated Pacific R. Road, distances to China, Europe, &c."
Prime meridian: Washington and Greenwich.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by John Haven in the clerks office of the District Court of the state of Massachusetts."
Includes historical notes, ship ill., tables of distances, "Nicaragua route" distances, and text on "Pacific Railroad."
Insets: Map of the Nicaragua route -- Map of the proposed rail road from St. Louis to the bay of St. Francisco.
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Subjects:World maps.
Ocean travel--Maps.
Overland journeys to the Pacific--Maps.
Ocean travel.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
World maps.
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Genre/Form:World maps.
Maps.
World maps.
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Also listed under:Haven, John, publisher.
United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8312771