6271 x 7044 px | 53,1 x 59,6 cm | 20,9 x 23,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1830
Ubicazione:
World
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Northern hemisphere, projected on the plane of the horizon of London. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Drawn & engraved by John & George Menzies for John Thomson's "New General Atlas". Provenance: "A new general atlas", consisting of a series of geographical designs, on various projections, exhibiting the form and component parts of the globe; and a collection of maps and charts, delineating the natural and political divisions of the Empires, Kingdoms, and States in the World", Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for John Thomson and Company, Edinburgh; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London; and John Cumming, Dublin [Thomson's New General Atlas]. Type: Antique early 19th century atlas map with original hand colouring. A large map centred on London. The map was published at a time when Africa's internal geography was little understood. In common with many 19th century maps, this shows the non-existent Mountains of Kong running west-east from present-day Guinea to Ethiopia. The "supposed course" of the Niger river is shown running east to the area of Lake Chad and then south where it becomes a tributary of the Congo River (in fact it flows to the sea much further north, in Nigeria)
