Hand colored in outline engraved map. Shows political and administrative boundaries. Relief shown by hachures. Lizars' New Edinburgh general atlas of the world, contains engraved title page, with decorative borders, text and contents, 44 lithographed hand colored maps on 62 plates, some double and folded. Maps show political and administrative boundaries, cities, villages, rivers, post roads, exploration routes, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Some maps includes notes. Prime meridian is Greenwich. The map of the United States, covers eastern and central states. Covers are brown half leather paper covered boards with title in black on front cover, the spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, gilt-lettered in one and stamped in the rest with title" New Edinrg. Atlas". Manuscript notes inside front cover and verso of title page.
Authors
- Collection
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Format
- Full Image Download in JP2 Format 39 50
- Place Discussed
- Saudi Arabia Egypt Middle East Arabian Peninsula
- Provider
- David Rumsey
- Published in
- Egypt
- Reference
- https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~332252~90100651; https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/RUMSEY~8~1/190/13230042.jpg; 13230.042
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/47bf561c0569d87651194f9af5a69b5d