Hand colored fortified plan. Prime meridian is London. Includes historical text at the foot of map. Luffman's atlas consists of 2 volumes, including engraved hand colored detailed plans of various cities, harbors and ports around the world, Luffman also included maps of some countries, regions, and islands. Showing roads, railroads, cities, towns, fortifications, rivers and canals. They are engraved and published by John Luffman between 1799 and 1802, often with numbered key. Includes index to each volume and historical text at foot of maps. Relief shown by hachures, pictorially and depth shown by soundings. Bound in light green paper covered boards, with title "J. Luffman plans of fortified cities, forts and harbours, coloured " in gilt pasted on spine. Phillips, 62. Tooley, 404.
Authors
- Collection
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Format
- Full Image Download in JP2 Format 12 16
- Place Discussed
- South Africa Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
- Provider
- David Rumsey
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
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- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/eb097371327c83dee37323bb3b7fa0ee