Osher Atlas Collection

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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1
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Date Produced: 1570
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Dimensions: H 43 x W 29 cm
LC Call Number: G1006.O7 1570
OCLC: 927113404
Accession Number: OS-1570-1
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1

American Atlas
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Date Produced: 1753 - 1775
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Dimensions: 53 cm. x 116 cm.
Physical Description: Thomas Jefferys died in 1771. His successors Robert Sayer and John Bennett gathered a compilation of separately-published maps and republished them in book form as the American Atlas in 1775. Among the maps are a map of Russian discoveries, map of the British empire in North America, Jefferys's Bay of Honduras, a chart of the Straits of Magellan by Don Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla and charts of North and South America.
LC Call Number: G1100 .J4 1775
OCLC: 927113830
Accession Number: OS-1775-24
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American Atlas

Carte de la France
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Date Produced: 1789
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Dimensions: 65 cm. x 53 cm.
Physical Description: Three volume set of the Carte de la France includes in volume one the 1744 outline map by Jean Dominique Maraldi and Cassini de Thury. The Carte was completed in 1789. It was the first general topographic map of the whole country based on triangulation and topographic surveys. Cesar -Francois Cassini I began the project but he died in 1784. It fell to his son Jean Dominique Cassini IV to complete the survey/triangulation until ownership and control was assumed by the revolutionary government in 1793.
LC Call Number: G5831 .B3 1789 .M3
OCLC: 930610800
Accession Number: OS-1789-2.1
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Carte de la France

Atlas Accompanying Greenleaf's Map and Statistical Survey of Maine
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Date Produced: 1829
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Dimensions: 34 cm
Physical Description: 1 atlas: 7 folded maps, illustrated
LC Call Number: G1215 .B5 1829
OCLC: 52568261
Accession Number: OS-1829-3
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Atlas Accompanying Greenleaf's Map and Statistical Survey of Maine