COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Composite: East Indies with roads.
Obj Height cm:
109
Obj Width cm:
137
Scale 1:
2,600,000
Note:
Engraved map in outline color. Printed on 4 sheets. Relief shown pictorially. Includes ethnographic and geographic notes. Prime meridians: London and Ferro. David Rumsey Collection copy mounted as 2 sheets. "To the directors of the Honble. East India Company, Thos. Jefferys humbly dedicates this map." (E 76--E 113/N 28--N 5)
Reference:
P4300.
Full Title:
(Composite of) The East Indies, with the roads. By Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King. MDCCLXVIII. The second edition. London, published according to Act of Parliament, 30th Apr. 1768 by Robt. Sayer, no. 53 in Fleet Street.
List No:
0411.033
Page No:
24-25
Series No:
35
Pub Date:
1790
Pub Title:
A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790).
Pub Reference:
P4300.
Pub Note:
Late issue. Many of the maps are double sheet. This atlas was later expanded to become the New Universal Atlas (see David Rumsey Collection copy). Some of these maps also appeared in the American Atlas by Jefferys. There are actually 23 large maps, on 35 connected sheets, produced from 62 copper plates. Maps are hand painted with outline and full color and bound in half leather tan marbled paper covered boards with "General Atlas" stamped in gold on the spine. Inscription inside front cover in pen-and-ink: R. Sayer pub, 53 Fleet ... 8th, 1791 ...
Pub List No:
0411.000
Pub Maps:
35
Pub Height cm:
55
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
0411033
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2005
Publisher Location:
London
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Type:
Composite Map
World Area:
Asia
Country:
India
Country:
Pakistan
Region:
South Asia
Publication Author:
Kitchin, Thomas
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Jefferys, Thomas
Date:
1768
Composite: East Indies with roads.
