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Creator: Kitchin, Thomas, 1718-1784
Title: South America and its several divisions according to the possessions of the European powers [cartographic material] / Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to His Majesty.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:19,408,000]
Publisher: [London : Printed and published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, Map, Chart and Print-Seller, no. 63 Fleet Street, 1798].
Date: 1789
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map ; 33.7 x 43 cm. on sheet 45.3 x 54.5 cm.
Notes: Map of South America showing the administrative boundaries of countries and regions.

Cartouche title.

Imprint on map: London : Printed for Robert Sayer, 1789.

[Plate] 51 from: A new and elegant imperial sheet atlas ... of the world : principally compiled from the Great French atlas ... engraved on fifty-one plates, beautifully coloured. London : Printed and published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, Map, Chart and Print-Seller, no. 63 Fleet Street, 1798.

Laurie and Whittle were successors to the cartographic property of Robert Sayer.

Shirley, R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.LAU-2a; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm116
Subjects: South America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
South America -- 1789 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 116
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm116