The British Isles, comprehending Great Britain and Ireland; with the adjacent islands
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Title
The British Isles, comprehending Great Britain and Ireland; with the adjacent islands
Collection
Atlases, gazetteers, guidebooks and other books
A new atlas of the mundane system; or, of geography and cosmography: describing the heavens and the earth ... the various empires, kingdoms, states, republics, and islands, throughout the known world ...
Names
Dunn, Samuel, d. 1794 (Author)
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794 (Publisher)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1788
Edition: 2d ed., with additions, corrections, and very great improvements
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53, Fleet-Street
Date Created: 1786
Library Location
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. (Atlas Cases) (Dunn, S. New atlas of the mundane system. 1788)
Subjects
Atlases, British
Geography
Great Britain
Ireland
Genres
Notes
Statement Of Responsibility: By Samuel Dunn, Mathematician.
Statement Of Responsibility: London: Printed for Rob[er]t Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street as the Act directs 10th June 1786.
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b13919861
Barcode: 33433068110877
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 98a26a30-857c-0132-5c2f-58d385a7b928
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1788
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "The British Isles, comprehending Great Britain and Ireland; with the adjacent islands" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1786. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/98a26a30-857c-0132-5c2f-58d385a7b928
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1786). The British Isles, comprehending Great Britain and Ireland; with the adjacent islands Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/98a26a30-857c-0132-5c2f-58d385a7b928
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "The British Isles, comprehending Great Britain and Ireland; with the adjacent islands" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/98a26a30-857c-0132-5c2f-58d385a7b928
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