Content: Relief shown by abbreviated form lines.
Content: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by J.H. Colton & Co. in the clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."
Content: Includes text.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Prime meridian: Washington and Greenwich.
Statement Of Responsibility: By David H. Burr ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co., N. York.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : hand col. ; 42 x 52 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 50018849
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15431032
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6c3f00e0-c6b6-012f-2ba0-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1840

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "The world, on Mercator's projection" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1840. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c3f00e0-c6b6-012f-2ba0-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1840). The world, on Mercator's projection Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c3f00e0-c6b6-012f-2ba0-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "The world, on Mercator's projection" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6c3f00e0-c6b6-012f-2ba0-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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