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Creator:
Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835
Title(s):

Cary's new universal atlas : containing distinct maps of all the principal states and kingdoms throughout the world ; from the latest and best authorities extant.

Additional Title(s):

New universal atlas

Published/Created:
London : Printed for J. Cary, engraver and map-seller, No. 181, near Norfolk Street, Strand, 1808.
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4] pages, [114] leaves of plates) : 56 maps ; 56 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/585797
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scales differ -- (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°)
Notes:
Title page engraved on double plate. List of subscribers printed on 2 pages of double leaves.
52 maps are on double plates; 4 maps are each on two double leaves.
Greenwich meridian.
Relief shown by hachures and shading.
List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 714.
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). Atlases & cartography, page 361
BEIN 1973 Folio 32: Maps are hand colored are dated 1799-1807; printed nubmber labels on verso of maps. Printed list of contents mounted on inside front cover. "List of subscribers to Cary's Universal atlas" tipped in at end. Bookplate: William Lyon, New Haven, Conn. no. [in manuscript] 1731.
BEIN 1982 Folio 9: Karpinski 4855. Maps are hand colored are dated 1799-1807. Copy matches description in National Maritime Museum Library Catalog, except that the map of Portugal is dated 1801. Printed list of contents is mounted on verso of first fly-leaf. Subscriber's list misbound to begin with "D" names. Title pages varies from that in the Franklin Collection. Bookplate of Thorne Collection of Cartogaphy and Geography.
BAC Folio A 2023 3: Maps are hand-colored. Bound in marbled brown boards with quarter leather. With printed table of contents pasted to inside front cover. Maps in this copy are dated 1799-1811. Bookplate: William Baker.
Subject Terms:
Atlases
Atlases, British.
Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956 -- Ownership.
Lyon, Wm. (William) -- Bookplate.
Thorne Collection of Cartogaphy and Geography.
Form/Genre:
Engravings.
Hand coloring.
Subscription lists.
World atlases.
Atlases.
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  • [Maps]: Europe
  • Austria
  • Bavaria
  • Bohemia
  • British Isles
  • Denmark
  • England
  • France, in provinces
  • Ditto, in departments
  • Franconia
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Holland
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy, general
  • Ditto, north-east
  • Naples
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Piedmont
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Prussia
  • Rhine, Upper and Lower
  • Russia in Europe
  • Saxony, Lower
  • Ditto, Upper
  • Scotland
  • Sicily
  • Silesia
  • Spain
  • Swabia
  • Sweden
  • Swisserland
  • Turkey in Europe
  • Westphalia
  • Asia
  • Arabia
  • China
  • East India Isles
  • Hindoostan, general
  • Ditto, Central
  • Ditto, Gangetic
  • Ditto, Sindetic
  • Ditto, Southern
  • New Holland and adjacent isles
  • Persia
  • Russia in Asia
  • Syria
  • Tartary, Chinese and independent
  • Turkey in Asia
  • Africa
  • Egypt
  • Good Hope, Cape of
  • America, general
  • America, North
  • Ditto, South
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Granada, New, and the Caraccas
  • La Plata and Chili
  • Mexico
  • Nova Scotia
  • Peru
  • United States
  • West Indies.

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