Historical Maps of the World

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	Main Author:		Robert de Vaugondy, Giles (info)
	Title/Description:		Orbis Vetus in Utraque Continente Juxta Mentem Sansonianam Distinctus
	Publication Info:		Paris: Boudet, 1752
	Date:		1752
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		unknown
	Title/Description:		Map of the World on Mercator's Projection
	Publication Info:		London: 1755; from Gentleman's Magazine
	Date:		1755
	Scale:		1:14,678,400
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Cole, Benjamin after Bauche, Phillipe
	Title/Description:		A Physical Planisphere wherein are represented all the Known Lands and Seas with the Great Chains of Mountains which traverse the Globe from the North Pole
	Publication Info:		London: Gentleman's Magazine, 1757
	Date:		1757
	Scale:		1:35,481,600
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Gibson, John
	Title/Description:		Old Map of the Continent according to greatest diametrical from the Point of East Tartary to the Cape of Good Hope
	Publication Info:		London: The Gentleman's Magazine, 1758
	Date:		1758
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Santini, P. (info)
	Title/Description:		Nouvelle Mappe Monde Dediée au Progrès de Nos Connoissances
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1760
	Date:		1760
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Buffon, Georges
	Title/Description:		Carte des Deux Continents
	Publication Info:		Paris: c.1760
	Date:		1760
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		d'Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon (info)
	Title/Description:		Orbis Veteribus Notus Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1763
	Date:		1763
	Scale:		1:17,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Desnos, L.
	Title/Description:		Mappe Monde
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1766
	Date:		1766
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Unknown Author
	Title/Description:		Dévelopment de la Route Faite Autour du Monde par les Vaisseaux du Roy la Boudeuse et l'E'toile (Bougainville's Voyage Around the World 1766-69)
	Publication Info:		Paris: c.1770
	Date:		1770
	Scale:		1:58,925,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Zatta, Antonio (info)
	Title/Description:		Emisfero Terrestre Meridionale Tagliato su l'Equatore
	Publication Info:		Venezia: 1771
	Date:		1771
	Scale:		1:55,123,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Guthrie, William
	Title/Description:		The World
	Publication Info:		London, 1771; from A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; Maps by T. Kitchin
	Date:		1771
	Scale:		n/a
	Original Source:		University of Alabama Map Library

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	Main Author:		de Vaugondy, Giles Robert (info)
	Title/Description:		Mappe Monde Suivant la Projection des Cartes Reduites
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1778
	Date:		1778
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Blair, John
	Title/Description:		A Map of the World with the Latest Discoveries
	Publication Info:		London: John Blair, 1779
	Date:		1779
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Tardieu, Ambroise (engraver)
	Title/Description:		Mappa-Monde Physique d'Apres les Vues du Profr. Pallas Redigees par Anrde Mongez Journal de Physique
	Publication Info:		Paris: Edme Mentelle, 1779; from Mentelle's Atlas Universel
	Date:		1779
	Scale:		undefined
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Adams Antiques, Northport, Alabama

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	Main Author:		Kitchin, Thomas (info)
	Title/Description:		The World from the Best Authorities
	Publication Info:		[London: c. 1780]
	Date:		1780
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Title/Description:		Terrestrial Globe and Celestial Globe
	Publication Info:		London: c.1780; from Middleton's Complete System of Geography
	Date:		1780
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Bonne, Rigobert (info)
	Title/Description:		Planisphere suivant la Projection de Mercator
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1780
	Date:		1780
	Scale:		1:110,088,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Bonne, Rigobert
	Title/Description:		Carte Reduite des Terres et des Mers du Globe Terrestre
	Publication Info:		Paris: Fevrier, 1782
	Date:		1782
	Scale:		1:127,638,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Kitchin, Thomas (info)
	Title/Description:		A Map of the World with the New Discoveries on Mercator's Projection
	Publication Info:		[London]: T. Cadell, 1783
	Date:		1783
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Conder, T.
	Title/Description:		A New General Chart of the World Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Capt. James Clark
	Publication Info:		London: Alexander Hogg, [1784]
	Date:		1784
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Guthrie, William
	Title/Description:		A Chart of the World, Showing the Latest Discoveries of Capt. Cook
	Publication Info:		London: William Guthrie, c.1785; page 867 from A New System of Geography
	Date:		1785
	Scale:		1:140,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Lumsden
	Title/Description:		A New Map of the World
	Publication Info:		London: 1785; from the Latest Discoveries
	Date:		1785
	Scale:		1:146,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Robert de Vaugondy, Giles (info)
	Title/Description:		Mappe Monde
	Publication Info:		Paris: Chez le S. Delamarche, 1786
	Date:		1786
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Unknown Author
	Title/Description:		Carte de L'Ancien Continent pour l'Intelligence du Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis
	Publication Info:		[Paris]: 1788
	Date:		1788
	Scale:		1:46,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Unknown Author
	Title/Description:		The World from the Best Authorities
	Publication Info:		New York: Low and Willis, [c.1790]; for Payne's Universal Geography
	Date:		1790
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Faden, William
	Title/Description:		New World or Western Hemisphere [and] Old World or Eastern Hemisphere
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1790
	Date:		1790
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Faden, William
	Title/Description:		Northern Hemisphere [and] Southern Hemisphere
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1790
	Date:		1790
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Unknown Author
	Title/Description:		The World from the Best Authorities
	Publication Info:		London: c.1790
	Date:		1790
	Scale:		1:107,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Delamarche, C. F.
	Title/Description:		Mappe Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1793
	Date:		1793
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Robert Laurie and James Whittle
	Title/Description:		A New Map of the World with Captain Cook's Tracks, His Discoveries and Those of the Other Circumnavigators
	Publication Info:		London: Laurie and Whittle, 1794
	Date:		1794
	Scale:		not indicated
	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		Dunn, Samuel
	Title/Description:		General Map of the World, or, Terraquesous globe
	Publication Info:		London: Laurie and Whittle, 1794
	Date:		1794
	Scale:		1:42,770,000
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Doolittle, Amos
	Title/Description:		Map of the World from the Best Authorities
	Publication Info:		Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1796; engraved from Morse's Universal Geography
	Date:		1796
	Scale:		1:168,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Walker, John
	Title/Description:		[World] General Chart, on Mercator's Projection
	Publication Info:		London: J.Johnson, c.1796; from Geography
	Date:		1796
	Scale:		1:165,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Morse, Jedidiah
	Title/Description:		Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection
	Publication Info:		Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1796
	Date:		1796
	Scale:		1:167,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Findley, Anthony
	Title/Description:		The World on Mercator's Projection
	Publication Info:		London: Thomas Kelly, [1798]
	Date:		1798
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Taymour, C.
	Title/Description:		The World as Peopled by the Descendents of Noah
	Publication Info:		London: Robert Wilkinson, 1798; showing the countries possessed by Shem, Ham, and Japhet and their posterity after the confusion of tongues
	Date:		1798
	Scale:		1:46,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Unknown Author
	Title/Description:		The World from the Best Authorities
	Publication Info:		New York: John Low, c.1799; from John Payne's Geography
	Date:		1799
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	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Harrison, William and C. Fox
	Title/Description:		The World on Mercator's Projection
	Publication Info:		London: J. Stockdale, c.1800
	Date:		1800
	Scale:		1:95,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:
	Title/Description:		The World from the Discoveries and Observations made in the Latest Voyages and Travels
	Publication Info:		London: Robert Wilkinson, 1800
	Date:		1800
	Scale:		1:122,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:
	Title/Description:		The World as known to the Antients [sic]
	Publication Info:		[London]: c.1800
	Date:		1800
	Scale:		1:42,500,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:
	Title/Description:		World from the Best Authorities
	Publication Info:		London: c.1800
	Date:		1800
	Scale:		1:176,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Title/Description:		The Eastern Hemisphere from the Latest Discoveries
	Publication Info:		London: c.1800
	Date:		1800
	Scale:		1:80,000,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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