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    "label": "Nouvelle carte de la Suisse dans laquelle sont exactement distingués les treize cantons, leurs alliés, et leurs sujets",
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    "title": "Nouvelle carte de la Suisse dans laquelle sont exactement distingués les treize cantons, leurs alliés, et leurs sujets",
    "description": "Relief shown pictorially.",
    "date": "[\"1778\"]",
    "year": 1778,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3f462x21x",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "French",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014650",
    "creators": [
        "Faden, William, 1749-1836",
        "Faden, William, 1749-1836",
        "Faden, William, 1749-1836"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Switzerland--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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    "subjectsGeographic": [
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        "Switzerland"
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    "pubPlace": "A Londre",
    "publisher": "W. Faden"
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    "notes": [
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Includes \"Vue de la Vallée de Chamouny et des glaciers du Côte du Midi, prise de l'Eglise de Chamouny en 1742,\" \"Section des principales montagnes a l'Est-sud-Est, et au Sud de Genève telles qu'on les voit de la plaine de cette ville,\" descriptive text and illustrated cartouches.",
        "Prime meridian: Ferro.",
        "Conservation of this piece was funded by Alan and Sherry Leventhal in memory of his father, Norman B. Leventhal whose vision to create this Map Center will inspire generations to come.",
        "Map 16 in a composite atlas with the title \"Atlas of the world.\""
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