TitleAmerica
NamesCockerill, Thomas, active 1674-1702 (Cartographer)Morden, Robert, approximately 1650-1703 (Cartographer)
CollectionLawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases
Atlases
Geography rectified, or, A description of the world : in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries, islands, cities, towns, seas, rivers, bayes, capes, ports : their antient and present names, inhabitants, situations, histories, customs, governments, &c. : as also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London : illustrated with above sixty new maps : the whole work performed according to the more accurate discoveries of modern authors
Dates / OriginDate Issued: 1680Place: LondonPublisher: Printed for Robert Morden and Thomas Cockeril, at the Atlas in Cornhill, and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey, over against the Stocks-Market
Library locationsLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map DivisionShelf locator: Map Div. 97-6059 [LHS 335; atlas cases]Shelf locator: Map Div. 97-6059 (Plate 361)[In LHS 335]
TopicsAtlases, BritishMapsAmerica -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
GenresMaps
NotesCitation/reference: Variant of Phillips 4265Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 335.Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.Content: NYPL copy has autograph on front free endpaper: Dan. Fleming; and on t.p.: John Thew Junr., Alnwick, 1768. Also on t.p.: 1728.Content: NYPL copy has p. or plate no. handwritten in ink in upper left margin of each map. The no. correspond to p. no. on contents list, and are sequential but not consecutive.Content: Relief shown pictorially.Content: T.p. printed in red and black, folded, and attached sideways as 2 leaves.Content: Third and fourth leaves include "A catalogue of the maps in this book."Content: Variant of another work of the same title. This variant includes maps only; lacks text.Statement of responsibility: by Robert Morden.Content: Differs from similar map. Lacks text in margin and on verso.Content: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 786.Content: NYPL copy has handwritten in ink in upper left margin: 361.Content: Shows California as an island.Statement of responsibility: by R. Morden.
Physical DescriptionExtent: 1 map : hand col. ; 11 x 13 cm., folded to 15 x 8 cm.
Type of ResourceCartographic
IdentifiersRLIN/OCLC: 49858419NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15410491RLIN/OCLC: 50482720NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15482964Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 08cbd500-c5d4-012f-e276-58d385a7bc34
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