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A New Survey of the Globe:
Or, an Accurate Mensuration of all the Empires, Kingdoms, Countries, States, Principal Provinces, Counties, & Islands in the World...
London,
Engraved by J. Cole in Great Kirby Street Hatton Garden,
[1729?].
Oblong folio (235 by 355mm), engraved title page, dedication leaf to the Honourable James Reynolds, four pages of introduction, five page subscriber's list with a table of the geographical plates to verso of the last leaf, contents list from Moll's Atlas Minor, thirty-five engraved tables, and 15 engraved maps (of which two are folding), blind stamped reverse calf.
Collation: [4],ix,[1]p., 35 plates, 54 maps.
List of maps
Hungary and Transilvania.
Russia or Moscovy with its Aquisitions &c. in Sweden.
The North Part of Turkey in Europe. Slavonia &c 1726.
Greece or the South Part of Turkey in Europe.
Great or Aasiatick Tartary.
The Empire of China and Island of Japan.
The West Part of Barbary Containing Fez, Marocco, Algiers and Tunis [and] The East Part of Barbary containing Tripoli, Barca and the North Part of Egypt.
St. Helena [and] The Bay of Agoa de Saldanha.
A Map of Terra Firma Peru Amazoneland, Brasil & the North P. of La Plata.
A Map of Chili, Patagonia, La Plata and ye South Part of Brasil.
The Scots Settlement in America called New Caledonia.
Europe.
Asia.
A Map of the Continent of the East-Indies &c.
The Caspian Sea.
Collation: [4],ix,[1]p., 35 plates, 54 maps.
List of maps
Hungary and Transilvania.
Russia or Moscovy with its Aquisitions &c. in Sweden.
The North Part of Turkey in Europe. Slavonia &c 1726.
Greece or the South Part of Turkey in Europe.
Great or Aasiatick Tartary.
The Empire of China and Island of Japan.
The West Part of Barbary Containing Fez, Marocco, Algiers and Tunis [and] The East Part of Barbary containing Tripoli, Barca and the North Part of Egypt.
St. Helena [and] The Bay of Agoa de Saldanha.
A Map of Terra Firma Peru Amazoneland, Brasil & the North P. of La Plata.
A Map of Chili, Patagonia, La Plata and ye South Part of Brasil.
The Scots Settlement in America called New Caledonia.
Europe.
Asia.
A Map of the Continent of the East-Indies &c.
The Caspian Sea.
16354
notes:
A highly unusual edition of Templeman's work with the contents leaf and 14 maps from Moll's 'Atlas Minor', bound in.
Templeman's work was intended to be a companion volume to Herman Moll's 'Atlas Minor', also published in 1729, and is sometimes found bound into the rear of Moll's work, as in the example housed in the Library of Congress. However, here a selection of 14 maps have been bound in order to illustrate Templeman's tables.
The tables offer a w...
Templeman's work was intended to be a companion volume to Herman Moll's 'Atlas Minor', also published in 1729, and is sometimes found bound into the rear of Moll's work, as in the example housed in the Library of Congress. However, here a selection of 14 maps have been bound in order to illustrate Templeman's tables.
The tables offer a w...
bibliography:
Phillis 602.
