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John Cary: A New Map of South America, From the Latest Authorities.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
John Cary  (–1835)  wikidata:Q3446124 s:en:Author:John Cary
 
Alternative names
J. Cary
Description cartographer, engraver, mapseller, printseller and graphic artist
Date of birth/death 23 February 1755 / 1754 Edit this at Wikidata 16 August 1835 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Corsley Mortlake
Work period 1788 / 1793 / 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q3446124
Title
A New Map of South America, From the Latest Authorities.
Description
English: A fine example of John Cary’s spectacular 1807 two sheet map of South America.
  • Covers the entirety of South America on two sheets. The upper sheet details the region from Cuba southwards as far as Lake Titicaca and Porto Bello, Brazil. Includes the Windward Isles or the Lesser Antilles. The bottom sheet details from Porto Seguro, Brazil, southward as far as Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island.
  • Both sheets offer stupendous detail of the interior with liberal reference to numerous indigenous tribal groups – especially in the Amazon. Color coded according to region.
  • Both sheets could be combined to form a single gigantic wall map of South America at the buyer’s discretion. All in all, one of the most interesting and attractive atlas maps South America to appear in first years of the 19th century.
Date 1807 (dated)
Dimensions height: 37 in (93.9 cm); width: 20.5 in (52 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,37U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,20.5U218593
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Geographicus link: SouthAmerica-cary-1807
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Cary, John, Cary's New Universal Atlas, containing distinct maps of all the principal states and kingdoms throughout the World. From the latest and best authorities extant. London: Printed for J. Cary, Engraver and Map-seller, No. 181, near Norfolk Street, Strand, 1808.

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