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    "label": "To the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow, and Monmouth, &c. this map of Africa, according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated",
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    "title": "To the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow, and Monmouth, &c. this map of Africa, according to ye newest and most exact observations is most humbly dedicated",
    "description": "Prime meridians: London and Ferro.",
    "date": "[\"[1750?–1759?]\"]",
    "year": 1750,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:cj82ks717",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_009654",
    "creators": [
        "Moll, Herman, d. 1732"
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    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, 1708-1779"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
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    "publisher": "Printed for Ino. Bowles & Son ... Tho. Bowles ... [by] Robt. Sayer ... and by John King"
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    "notes": [
        "Prime meridians: London and Ferro.",
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Insets: Cape Coast Castle on ye gold coast of Guinea -- James Fort on the island of St. Helena -- Fort of Good Hope -- A prospect of the Cape of Good Hope.",
        "Philip Overton's name has been erased and Robert Sayer's printed over. The premises passed to Sayer in 1748.",
        "Appears in Moll's The world described, [1709-1736], plate 6."
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