1874 ASIA LARGE HANDCOLOURED MAP BY JOHNSTON

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This large map is engraved by Alexander Keith Johnston, published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1874. Size: The map measures approx 24.5" x 19.5", (62 cm x 50 cm). Description: This is an amazing map, handcoloured in outline is by Alexander Keith Johnston. It is an original antique map which is printed on one side only. The map is printed on good quality thick paper. This map is a genuine antique, 134 years old. JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (1804-1871) A Scottish geographer, who was born at Kirkhill near Edinburgh on the 28th of December 1804. After an education at the high school and the university of Edinburgh he was apprenticed to an engraver; and in 1826 joined his brother (afterwards Sir William Johnston, lord provost of Edinburgh) in a printing and engraving business, the well-known cartographical firm of W. and A. K. Johnston. His interest in geography had early developed, and his first important work was the National Atlas of general geography, which gained for him in 1843 the appointment of GeographerRoyal for Scotland. Johnston was the first to bring the study of physical geography into competent notice in England. His attention had been called to the subject by Humboldt; and after years of labor he published his magnificent Physical Atlas in 1848, followed by a second and enlarged edition in 1856. This, read more

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