COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Map of the World. Delineating the Contrasted Longitudinal and Latitudinal Forms of the Continents.
Obj Height cm:
32
Obj Width cm:
98
Scale 1:
60,000,000
Note:
Relief shown by hachures. Color.
Reference:
Howes G192; Wheat 1010, 1011 (1860 edition); WC 358 (1860 edition).
Full Title:
Map of the World. Delineating the Contrasted Longitudinal and Latitudinal forms of the continents: the Isothermal Zodiac and Axis of Intensity Round the World; and the Line of Cosmopolitan Railway and it Longitudinal Feeders. J.B. Lippincott & Co. Phila.
List No:
2142.002
Page No:
Frontispiece
Series No:
2
Pub Date:
1873
Pub Title:
Mission of the North American People, Geographical, Social, and Political. Illustrated by Six Charts Delineating the Physical Architecture and Thermal laws of all the Continents. By William Gilpin, Late Governor of Colorado. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1873. (on verso) Entered ... 1873, by William Gilpin ... Washington.
Pub Note:
Second edition, with maps changed from the first, 1860, edition. The maps are unusual and interesting, with the Colorado map derived and reduced from the Gilpin/Ebert 1865 Map of Colorado Territory. Signed by the author. The first edition was titled "The Central Gold Region. The Grain, Pastorial, and Gold Regions of North America..."
Pub List No:
2142.000
Pub Maps:
6
Pub Height cm:
24
Pub Width cm:
16
Image No:
2142002
Publisher Location:
Philadelphia
Publisher:
J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Type:
Frontispiece
Type:
Book Map
World Area:
World
Publication Author:
Gilpin, William
Pub Type:
Geography Book
Author:
Gilpin, William
Date:
1873
Map of the World. Delineating the Contrasted Longitudinal and Latitudinal Forms of the Con...
