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    "title": "A map of North America, & the West India Islands, with part of South America, Europe, Africa & the Atlantic Ocean with it's islands",
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
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        "Webb, Benjamin, active 1760-1784",
        "Ptolemy, active 2nd century"
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        "North America--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "West Indies--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Europe, Western--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Africa, Northwest--Maps--Early works to 1800"
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        "Includes table of The latitude of some principal place in Europe &c.",
        "Some islands in the West Indies also labeled with length of the island, length of coastline, island dimensions, or changes from the 1763 Treaty of Paris.",
        "Likely based on German sources."
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