Thursday, March 8, 2012

World Map 19th Century

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



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



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



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

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


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



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

 

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