COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Trinidad.
Obj Height cm:
50
Obj Width cm:
64
Scale 1:
180,000
Note:
Hand colored engraved map. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables of political divisions (quarters) and population. Unlike other maps in the Rumsey Collection copy of the atlas, this one is laid in and it lacks a number printed in dark ink (usually on verso) -- in this copy it's written in pencil.
Full Title:
Plan of the isle of Trinidad, from actual surveys made in the year 1797. Published 12th Decr. 1800 by Robert Laurie & James Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London. Engraved by George Allen, 19 Shoe Lane, Fleet Str.
List No:
2310.085
Page No:
(71)
Series No:
87
Pub Date:
1804
Pub Title:
(A new universal atlas, exhibiting all the empires, kingdoms, states, republics, &c. &c. in the whole World; being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert (de Vaugondy) with many improvements by Major James Rennel, and other eminent geographers, including all the tracks and new discoveries of the British circumnavigators, Biron, Wallis, Carteret, Captain James Cook, Vancouver, Perouse, &c. &c. 6th Ed. ... London, R. Laurie & J. Whittle, 1804)
Pub Reference:
OCLC 7160203. Cf P699; Shirley R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.LAU-1c (1799 ed.); NMM 375 (3rd ed. 1801)
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
2310.000
Pub Maps:
76
Pub Height cm:
57
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
2310085
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2006
Publisher Location:
London
Publisher:
Laurie & Whittle
Type:
Atlas Map
Country:
Trinidad and Tobago
Engraver or Printer:
Allen, George
Publication Author:
Kitchin, Thomas
Publication Author:
Robert Laurie & James Whittle
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Robert Laurie & James Whittle
Date:
1800
Attributed Author:
Kitchin, Thomas
Trinidad.
