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James Cook

James Cook was an English cartographer and explorer active in the 18th century. His detailed surveys of the Pacific Ocea...

18TH Century Exploration Survey English

9.6 Brilliant

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William Smith

William Smith was a prominent 18th and 19th-century English cartographer whose meticulous work revolutionized geological...

18TH Century English Geological Map Stratigraphy

9.5 Brilliant

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David Thompson

David Thompson was a 18th-century cartographer employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company. He undertook extensive surveying an...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Northwest

9.3 Excellent

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Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith was an 18th-century English cartographer renowned for his meticulously crafted large format atlases and...

18TH Century Exploration Large Format English

8.9 Great

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George Vancouver

George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer who led an exhaustive 1790s maritime expedition that charted the highl...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific Coast

8.8 Great

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Jacques Cassini

Jacques Cassini (1677–1756) was a French astronomer and cartographer whose geodetic surveys helped prove that the Earth...

18TH Century French Survey Meridian

8.5 Great

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Thomas Jefferys

Thomas Jefferys (1719–1771) was an English cartographer who served as Geographer to King George III and became famous fo...

18TH Century English North America Atlas

8.5 Great

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Alejandro Malaspina

Alejandro Malaspina was an Italian-born Spanish naval officer who led a major scientific expedition between 1789 and 179...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Pacific

8.5 Great

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John Cary

John Cary (1754–1835) was a highly influential English cartographer whose precise road maps and atlases set new standard...

18TH Century English Atlas Engraver

8.4 Great

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Samuel Holland

Samuel Holland was a Dutch-born British surveyor who became the first Surveyor General of British North America, produci...

18TH Century Survey British Colonial

8.3 Great

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William Faden

William Faden (1749–1836) was an English cartographer who became the royal Geographer to King George III, publishing hig...

18TH Century English Atlas Publisher

8.2 Great

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John Arrowsmith

John Arrowsmith (1790–1873) was a British cartographer who inherited his uncle's mapping firm and produced an influentia...

Exploration 19TH Century English Atlas

8.2 Great

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Emanuel Bowen

Emanuel Bowen (1694–1767) was a prominent English mapmaker and engraver who served as royal mapmaker to both King George...

18TH Century English Atlas Engraver

8.0 Great

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Joseph Nicollet

French-American explorer and scientist (1786–1843) who produced the first detailed scientific maps of the upper Mississi...

Exploration Survey 19TH Century Mississippi

8.0 Great

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George Bellas Greenough

British geologist and cartographer (1778–1855) who produced a geological map of England and Wales in 1820 and was a foun...

Survey 19TH Century English Geological Map

8.0 Great

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Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré

Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré was a French hydrographer who led surveys of the Greek archipelago in 1793, pioneerin...

18TH Century French Survey Nautical

8.0 Great

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Thomas Kitchin

Thomas Kitchin (1718–1784) was an English cartographer and Hydrographer to King George III who produced a massive output...

18TH Century English Atlas County

7.8 Good

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Lewis Evans

Lewis Evans (1700–1756) was a Welsh-born American surveyor who produced a crucial 1749 map of the middle British colonie...

18TH Century American Survey Colonial

7.8 Good

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Joseph Bouchette

Joseph Bouchette was an early 19th-century Canadian surveyor general who created extensive maps of Lower Canada and publ...

18TH Century Survey Canadian Canada

7.8 Good

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John Charles Frémont

American explorer and military officer (1813–1890) who led multiple expeditions mapping the American West in the 1840s,...

Exploration American Survey 19TH Century

7.5 Good