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A globular draught from the North Pole to the latitude of 60°
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- [London] : [Printed for J. and J. Knapton, W. and J. Innays, etc.], [1728]
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- 1 map ; 46.7 diam., on sheet 63 x 54 cm
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- ocn309459798
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Scale not given(W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--N 60°).
- Shows Baffin Bay east to Siberia; western arctic blank with dates of discovery of Greenland, of continents and the islands. .
- From Cutler et. al. Atlas maritimus et commercialis, 1728.
- "21" -- lower right corner.
- With numerous rhumb lines and four compass roses.
- The present chart was part of a collaboration taken up by John Senex (1678-1740), the Royal Geographer to the King, and John Harris, probably the finest mathematical instrument maker in England during the 1720s, as part of a sea atlas developed by Senex and Harris, to compete with Mount & Page’s wildly popular English Pilot sea series. It was published in the Atlas Maritimus et commercialis, or A general view of the world... (London: James and John Knapton et al., 1728).