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Number: | 1997 |
Continent: | Africa |
Region: | Continent |
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Year of Origin: | 1820 (estimated) |
Title: | MAP of AFRICA Drawn & Engraved to Illustrate Hart's geographical Exercises. |
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Language: | English |
Publish Origin: | New York |
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Engraver: |
G. H. Young |
Publisher: |
Joseph C. Hart |
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Notes: | scale measured on scale bar; The date is estimated by the Niger River presumed course; Vance also contributed to Hart's atlas titled "A Modern Atlas of Fourteen Maps", New York, R Lockwood 1828, and Vance also worked in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island; an engraver GH Young (of Philadelphia working 1800-1823), and an engraver JH Young 1817-1866 working in Philadelphia; There is a recorded revised edition of 'Hart's Geographical Exercises' atlas dated 1857 by Charles B. Stout, and published by Ivison and Phinney in New York; |
Last updated: Oct 21, 2010 |