Central America
| Reference: | MS6232 |
| Author | Alvin Jewett JOHNSON |
| Year: | 1865 |
| Zone: | Central America |
| Printed: | New York |
| Measures: | 395 x 310 mm |
€75.00
| Reference: | MS6232 |
| Author | Alvin Jewett JOHNSON |
| Year: | 1865 |
| Zone: | Central America |
| Printed: | New York |
| Measures: | 395 x 310 mm |
€75.00
Description
Map taken from Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas, With Physical Geography, And With Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, And Historical … By Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. … Maps Compiled, Drawn, And Engraved Under The Supervision Of J.H. Colton And A.J. Johnson. New York: Johnson And Ward, Successors To Johnson And Browning (Successors To J.H. Colton And Company,) No. 113 Fulton Street. 1865. Entered … One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-four, by A.J. Johnson … New York. Good conditions.
Covers Central America from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico to the Bay of Panama. Shows the countries of Guatemala, Honduras, el Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Jamaica appears in the upper right corner.
Shows proposed roadways, cities, rivers, and ferry crossings.
The lower left hand quadrant features three inset maps. In a clockwise fashion from top left these detail the Isthmus of Panama, the Nicaragua Route to the Pacific, and the Harbor of San Juan de Nicaragua. Two additional insets on the right hand side of the map show Aspinwall City and the City of Panama.
Alvin Jewett JOHNSON (1827 - 1884)
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Was a prolific American map publisher active from 1856 to the mid-1880s. Johnson was born into a poor family in Wallingford, Vermont where he received only a based public education. In 1861 ke moved in New York where he founded his publishing house in partnership with Browing, and then with Ward and later with his son.
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Alvin Jewett JOHNSON (1827 - 1884)
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Was a prolific American map publisher active from 1856 to the mid-1880s. Johnson was born into a poor family in Wallingford, Vermont where he received only a based public education. In 1861 ke moved in New York where he founded his publishing house in partnership with Browing, and then with Ward and later with his son.
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