File:Dury Atlas Maps 1 and 2 The World.jpg

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A map of the world c. 1761

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English: Maps 1 and 2 of the world as known around 1761, provided as two equatorial orthographic projections of the western and eastern hemispheres, later reprinted without credit in the 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed.
Date 1761, reprinted 1763 & 1764.
Source A New General and Universal Atlas..., hosted by the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Author Andrew Dury, cartographer. Thomas Kitchin, engraver.
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