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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's Turkey in Asia. - Johnson's Persia, Arabia, Beloochistan and Afghanistan.   (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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Johnson's Turkey in Asia. - Johnson's Persia, Arabia, Beloochistan and Afghanistan.
Description
English: This is A. J. Johnson 1870 map of what is today considered the Middle East, in Western Asia.
  • Divided into two maps on a single sheet and based upon earlier separate Johnson maps.
  • The upper map focuses on Turkey and the territories claimed by the Ottoman Empire.
    Includes modern day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, and Iraq.
  • The lower map focuses on Arabia and Persia.
    Details include modern day Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, and the UAE.
  • Features the spirograph style border common to Johnson’s atlas work in 1870. Steel plate engraving prepared by A. J. Johnson for publication as page nos. 109-110 in the rare 1870 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas… Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year of 1867, by A. J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Date 1867 (dated)
Dimensions height: 23 in (58.4 cm); width: 15.5 in (39.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,23U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,15.5U218593
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Geographicus link: TurkeyPersiaArabia-johnson-1870
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Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. (1870 A. J. Johnson edition)

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