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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Map of The World Illustrating the principal features of the Land and the Co-Tidal Lines. - Map of the World Showing the principal Ocean Currents & Boundaries of River Systems.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
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Map of The World Illustrating the principal features of the Land and the Co-Tidal Lines. - Map of the World Showing the principal Ocean Currents & Boundaries of River Systems.
Description
English: This is one of the thematic world map sets from the rare 1861 edition of Johnson and Browning’s Illustrated Atlas of the World . Features two maps drawn within a single border. The upper map depicts the world’s co-tidal lines with notations regarding world table lands and lowlands. The lower map very attractively displays the important ocean currents. Shading in the landmasses show the influence of various river systems. Represents plates 11 and 12 in the 1861 edition of Johnson and Browning’s Illustrated Atlas… .
Date 1862 (undated)
Dimensions height: 15.2 in (38.7 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
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Geographicus link: TidesCurrents-johnson-1862
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Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, (1862 edition).

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