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Code: 77018
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Date: 1774
Condition: AA
Colour: Uncoloured.
Size: 54 cm x 46 cm
Title: "Arabia According to its Modern Divisions" engraved by Samuel Dunn. The map is from "A New Atlas of the Mundane System; or of Geography and Cosmography", published by Robert Sayer & John Bennett.
A handcoloured map by Samuel Dunn, Teacher of mathematical Sciences in London and Member of the Philisophical Society in Philadelphia, in America. Besides being a mapmaker, Dunn was a sometimes publisher of maps and atlases, a mathematician, and a teacher. Dunn's mathematical inclinations are demonstrated on the precision of this fine map.
Printed on one side only on good quality paper and in good condition except for a small split in the centrefold which only affects the margin.