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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
Height: 30.6
Width: 36.3
Units: centimeters
Size Class.: Medium
Scale: 1 : 27,000,000
Color Type: Full Color
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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