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The world in hemispheres : with comparative views of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers on the globe

Title: The world in hemispheres : with comparative views of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers on the globe / by A.K. Johnston, F.R.G.S. ; engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston.
Author: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871.
Publication: Edinburgh : Published by John Johnstone and W. & A.K. Johnston [etc.], [1849]

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Description

1 map : hand col.; 2 hemispheres, each 29 cm. in diam., on sheet 55 x 63 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

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Note

Relief shown by hachures.
Appears in Johnston's National atlas of historical, commercial and political geography, 1849 and other eds.
In upper right margin: National atlas - 1.
Includes ill. and statistics.

Call Number

Map Div. 02-304

OCLC

50016913

Author

Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871.

Title

The world in hemispheres : with comparative views of the heights of the principal mountains and lengths of the principal rivers on the globe / by A.K. Johnston, F.R.G.S. ; engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston.

Imprint

Edinburgh : Published by John Johnstone and W. & A.K. Johnston [etc.], [1849]

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:65,000,000] (W 180⁰--E 180⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰).

Local Note

NYPL copy breaking down along margins; some marginal text not legible.

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Johnstone, John

Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871. National atlas of historical, commercial and political geography.

W. & A.K. Johnston Limited.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 02-304

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