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    "title": "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies",
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    "date": "[\"[1762]\"]",
    "year": 1762,
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    "identifierLocal": "4000137_0021",
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        "Jefferys, Thomas, -1771"
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        "Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800",
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        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "Prime meridians: London and Ferro.",
        "Includes 2 overlays hinged to left side: Plate I. Claims of the French in 1756 are colored yellow -- Plate II. The French dominions as proposed by M. De Bussy in 1761 are colored yellow and the lands proposed by M. De Bussy to be neutral are colored green.",
        "\"Plate III. The dominions ceded by France & Spain to Great Britain are colored with a feint red.\"",
        "Includes tables of latitude and longitude of selected places with comparison to latitude and longitude on the maps of Bellin and D'Anville.",
        "Appears in Jefferys' General topography of North America and the West Indies. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ... and Thomas Jefferys, 1768."
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