(Facsimile) Delisle - 1700. S Doc 9a 55 2. Part of a Map of South America by William Delisle, 1700. Reproduced from Original (in a Collection Marked Old Maps of America, Map No. 6) in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Photo.Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, MD.

Reproductions of maps from 1534 to 1875. On cover: Venezuelan Boundary Commission Report. 1898. Atlas (vol. 4 indicated on half title). With printed color. The American resolution under the auspices of the Monroe Doctrine, and as illustrated by this atlas, of the dispute between Britain and Venezuela, largely followed the the route (favoring Britain) of the Schomburgk Line, the name given to a survey line made in 1835 by Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865). Venezuela periodically contests its validity.
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