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Anthony Finley: West Indies.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anthony Finley  (1790–1840)  wikidata:Q18507773
 
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507773
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West Indies.
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English: This is Finley’s desirable 1827 map of the West Indies and Caribbean. Shows the Greater and LEsser Antilles as well as the Bahamas and portions of the Spanish Main. Islands are color coded according to their European claimants. Shows cities, forts, bays, rivers, roads, and some topographical features. It the Bahamas, Finley identifies Guanaham or Cat Isle, the first land in the America to be sighted by Columbus. Mile scales and title in upper right quadrant. Engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas .
Date 1827 (undated)
Dimensions height: 9 in (22.8 cm); width: 11.5 in (29.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11.5U218593
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Finley, Anthony, A New General Altas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe, Together with the several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities, and corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries, Philadelphia, 1827.

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