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• Title:A Map of the whole world.
  
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• Related Title:A New universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting the invention, structure, improvement, and uses.
  
• Author/Creator:Cole, B. (Benjamin), cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : J. Coote, 1759.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3200 1759 .C64
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:World maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale not given.
  6 maps on 1 sheet ; 37 x 24.
  
• Summary:Engraved print in black ink depicting regions of the world. Details of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America located at corners of plate and both hemispheres depicted at centre. California appears as an island, and the northern regions of North America undefined.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_30
  
• Notes:At head of sheet: Geography, plate XIX.
  Map from: A new universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting the invention, structure, improvement, and uses, of the most considerable instruments, engines, and machines, with their nature, power, and operation, decyphered in fifty two copper-plates. In two volumes. Vol. 1. London: Printed for J. Coote, 1759. 2 vols.