Van Petten - 1598. S Doc 91 55 2. 58. Sketch of the Gulf of Paria, with Part of the Coast of Trinidad and of the Orinoco Delta, 1598. Reproduced from a Tracing of the Original Manuscript in the Rijksarchief at the Hague, No. 578 of the Catalogue. 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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