Letts's map of the world on Mercator's projection
- Bib ID:
- 7384797
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Letts, Son & Co, cartographer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale approximately 1:50,000,000 ; Mercator projection (W 180°00ʹ--E 180°00ʹ/N 80°00ʹ--S 65°00ʹ).
- Description:
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- London, E.C. : Mason & Payne, April, 1888
- 1 map : colour, dissected and mounted on linen ; 78.0 x 102.8 cm, on sheet 86.4 x 129.8 cm, in cover 18.4 x 11.4 cm
- Partial contents:
- Inset: The Nile Delta and the Suez Canal : sketch map. Scale approximately 1:3,000,000.
- Notes:
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- World map showing directions of principal ocean currents and drifts, British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, German, and smaller countries' possessions, overland and submarine telegraphs, principal line steamer routes, the names of ports and average duration of passage in days, southern and northern limits of the drift ice and floating icebergs from the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, active and extinct or dormant volcanoes, and the principal treaty ports in China & Japan. Relief shown by hachures, and bathymetric tints.
- Includes profiles of the bed of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and legend.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1578635823
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1888
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mason & Payne
- Also Titled:
-
- Map of world
- Map of the world on Mercator's projection
- Copyright:
-
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1958 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1888
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