A short account of the nature and use of maps : as also some short discourses of the division of the earth into zones, climes and parallels, with the properties of the several inhabitants thereof : to which is subjoined a catalogue of the factories and places now in possession of the English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portugueze and Danes, both in the East and West Indies : with several tables very useful in geography and navigation / by William Alingham ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alingham, William, active 1694-1710, author.

Contributor:

Janeway, Richard, active 1680-1703, printer.

Barker, B. (Benjamin), -1764, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Early works to 1800.

Cartography.

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Map drawing--Early works to 1800.

Map drawing.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Szmuk-Tanenbaum, Szilvia E. (Szilvia Emilia), 1946- (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 85, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

oway d;im alto allo (3) 1703 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by R. Janeway, for Benj. Barke [that is, Barker] at the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall, 1703.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴ B-F⁸ G⁴.

Title in red and black within border of double rules.

Bookseller's advertisement on leaves G3v-G4v.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy imperfect: plate wanting.

Kislak Center copy: bookseller's name "Barke" on title leaf corrected in manuscript to "Barker" in red ink; early manuscript note in tail margin of leaf C1r.

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2023 by Szilvia E. Szmuk-Tanenbaum.

Cited in:

ESTC T86962

Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 281

OCLC:

15231159