File:1870 Johnson Climate Map of the World w- Physical Map, Tidal Map, Races and Declination - Geographicus - PhysicalMap-johnson-1870.jpg

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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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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's Physical Map, Showing the Principal Mountains, Plateaus, & Plains of The World. - Johnson's World. Showing the Lines of Equal Magnetic Declination. - Johnson's World. Showing the Course of the Tidal-Wave in the Three Great Oceans and the Distribution of Volcanoes. - Johnson's World. Showing teh Distribution of the Principal Races of Man.
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English: This is one of the thematic world maps from the rare 1870 edition of A. J. Johnson’s Atlas of the World . Features four maps drawn c. 1858 by Professor A Guyot. The largest depicts the physical word and attempts to show elevation. The three smaller charts depict, from top to bottom, the world with lines of equal magnetic declination, the world’s tides and volcanoes, and the “races of man”. The whole is surrounded by the rare decorative border that appears only in the 1870 edition of Johnson’s Atlas. All maps are dated and copyrighted “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1870 by A. J. Johnson in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Date 1870 (dated)
Dimensions height: 25 in (63.5 cm); width: 17.5 in (44.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,17.5U218593
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Geographicus link: PhysicalMap-johnson-1870
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Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas, (1870 edition).

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