Tuesday, 6 March 2012

WORLD MAP 19TH CENTURY


[1] Description: Japanese world map from a unknown author dated to 1875, the 8th year of the Emperor's Meiji's reign.


[2]  Description: Charles Desilver's world map, published in his New Universal Atlas 1856/USA.


[3]  Description: World map made by the English cartographer, engraver and publisher Aaron Arrowsmith in 1812.

[4]  Description: Map of the world centered on America prepared by the American altlas publisher Joseph Hutchins Colton in 1852.



[5]  Description: Japanese world map in two hemispheres dating to 1848 by Shincho Kurihara and Heibe Chojiya.


[6]  Description: Political world map illustrated by the English artist Walter Crane showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886.


[7]  Description: Dutch world map from Otto Petri published in 1860.

 

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