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• Title:Nuova carta del Polo Artico secondo l'ultime osservazioni / A Aamsterdam da Isac Tirion.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tirion, Isaac, approximately 1705-1765.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Coolie Verner Map Collection.
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Venezia : G. Albrizzi, 1740.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3210 1740 .T74
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1677:1740:T
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Northern hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subject(s):Polar Projection.
  
• Description:Scale [ca.1:45 000 000] ; (N 90 ̊-N 35 ̊).
  1 map : hand colored ; 27 cm. diameter map on plate 29 x 35 cm.
  
• Summary:Circular copper engraved map of the north polar projection. Shows California as an island (northern part).
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_68
  
• Notes:Relief shown pictorially.
  Countries; cities, etc.; Grand Banks.
  Polar projection.
  Watermark in each half.
  Prime Meridian: Ferro.
  Ribbon cartouche along top of place behind polar projection.
  From: Nieuwe en beknopte handatlas. Italian edition published 1740.
  Map removed from source: L'Isle, Guillaume de. Atlante novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo, nel quale sono esattamente descritti gl'imperj, le monarchie, stati, repubbliche, ec., del Sig. Guglielmo de l'Isle... Al quale si premette la prima parte della introduzione alla geografia. Vol. 1. Venezia, G.: Albrizzi Q. Girol, 1740. plate 21.
  Prime meridian: Ferro Island?
  
• Cited in:Verner card file V368.