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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

2

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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Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle was a 18th-century French cartographer whose meticulous work significantly advanced mapmaking techniqu...

18TH Century French Accuracy Scientific

9.2 Excellent

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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville was a prominent 18th-century French cartographer renowned for meticulous mapmaking....

18TH Century French Accuracy Atlas

9.1 Excellent

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Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders was an English cartographer renowned for his detailed surveys of Australia during the late 18th century...

18TH Century Exploration Survey Australia

9.1 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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John Mitchell

John Mitchell (1711–1768) was a British-American botanist who created a highly influential 1755 map of eastern North Ame...

18TH Century American Colonial North America

8.8 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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Johann Baptist Homann

Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer who founded a major map publishing firm that dominated the Eur...

German 18TH Century Atlas Publisher

8.6 Great

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John Speed

John Speed was a 17th-century English cartographer famous for his 1611 atlas, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, a...

English 17TH Century Early Modern Atlas

8.4 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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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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John Melish

Scottish-American cartographer (1771–1822) who published in 1816 the first map depicting the full continental extent of...

18TH Century North America Atlas Publisher

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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Laurie and Whittle

Laurie and Whittle were prominent British map publishers in London who acquired Robert Sayer's firm in 1794 and produced...

18TH Century English Nautical Atlas

7.0 Good

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Samuel Dunn

Samuel Dunn was an 18th-century British cartographer who published the large-scale New Map of the World in 1794, noted f...

18TH Century English Mathematical Atlas

7.0 Good

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Robert Wilkinson

Robert Wilkinson was a late 18th-century British map publisher known for his General Atlas of the World, which provided...

18TH Century London English Atlas

6.8 Fair

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Richard William Seale

Richard William Seale was an 18th-century English cartographer and engraver who produced important maps for historical w...

18TH Century London English Atlas

6.5 Fair