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Hoquart, A.
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Date estimated; based on newest map sheet in atlas, 1854.
Author
[Reynolds, James, Emslie, John]
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Engraved color view by John Emslie illustrating Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Scafell Pike, the highest mountains in Scotland, Wales and England respectively, as well as the heights of other significant locations in the British Isles. Includes notes: "The smaller figures denote the geological formations of the hills".
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Thomson, John
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Engraved view. Includes vertical scale with names of heights.
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Cornell, S. S. (Sarah S.)
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Engraved double hemisphere map. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures.
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[Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859, Bonpland, Aime (1773-1858)]
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Uncolored elevation profile of Equinoctial plants, and geology of Andes Region. Drafted by Humboldt designed by Schonberger and Turpin paris in 1805. Includes 2 tables showing distribution of plants and geology in the area. Shows large number of plant families, genera, and species names corresponding to the vicinity of the equator in America. Relief shown pictorially.
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Andriveau-Goujon, J.
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Comparative mountains and rivers charts, a convention developed in the 19th century. Beautifully colored with fine graphics and art and closely corresponding statistical tables. It presents an appealing balance in different colors. Extensive annotations on vegetation, volcanic activity, and lichen, no doubt derived from Humboldt. Of course, due to the early date, the geographical data does not reflect many later discoveries.
Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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Full color view, showing length of rivers and receiving water bodies, and comparative height of mountains in the world. Includes list of relative mountain heights as grouped by continent, given with corresponding number on mountain ranges.
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Bradford, Thomas G.
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Full color coded by location of mountains. Shows comparative mountain heights and volcanoes worldwide. Includes notes.
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Weiland, Carl Ferdinand, 1782 -1847
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Color chart mounted on linen in 18 segments. Displays the colored comparative height profile of the highest mountains in Germany and Switzerland, together with indication of the heights of many towns, villages, lakes, etc., for the best barometer measurements. Includes a text with comments on the mentioned mountains.
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Weiland, Carl Ferdinand, 1782 -1847
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Color chart and map mounted on linen. Showing comparative overview of heights of most important mountains in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and the South Sea countries. Map showing important mountains in related to the chart.
Author
Bradford, Thomas G.
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View showing the comparative Lengths of the Principal Rivers in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The rivers have been necessarily straightened to indicate the lengths of the rivers. Inset showing comparative heights of mountains, snow level, and distribution of vegetation in each zone.
Author
Bradford, Thomas G.
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Map is outline hand color coded by location of mountains. Shows comparative mountain heights and volcanoes worldwide. Includes notes.
Author
[Andriveau-Goujon, J., Bruguiere, Louis]
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Hand col. Vertical scale noted above. Scale and key on sides. "Atlas universel, no. 44."
Author
C. Smith & Son
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Probably one of the earliest comparative view of the world's waterfalls in color. With waterfalls strategically arranged for comparison from Europe and Africa to Americas. The highest shown is "Cataract of Gavarny (Pyrenees)", and the lowest is the "Last cataract of the Nile". Includes remarks, and notes.
Author
Moule, Thomas
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Comparative engraved view of the mountains and hills throughout Great Britain, by Thomas Moule, which appeared in Barclays Complete and Universal English Dictionary ( London: G. Virtue, 1841-1848), with Salisbury Spire, St. Paul's Cathedral and Greenwich Observatory are shown in comparison to the hills and mountain toward the center bottom, emphasizing the magnitude of nature over the achievements of mankind. Intriguingly, Ben Macdui, and not Ben Nevis, is shown as being the highest mountain in Great Britain.
Author
[Drioux, Claude-Joseph, Leroy, Charles]
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Color hypsometric and geologic map of France. Includes cross section of the earth's crust. Relief shown by gradient tints and spot heights. Shows terrains, rivers, mountains, etc.
Author
Arrowsmith, Aaron Jr.
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Includes notes.
Author
[Barbie du Bocage, J.G., Dufour, H.]
Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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Printed in full color with charts listing mountain heights and river lengths. Plate 77 has been inserted as the fronticepiece.
Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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Includes tables of lengths of rivers and heights of mountains.
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[Perrot, A. M. (Aristide Michel), 1793-1879, Vandermaelen, Philippe, 1795-1869]
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Hand col. lithograph. Key to peaks at bottom with elevations.
Author
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871
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Hand col. lithograph. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Contents: Plan of the volcanoes of Pichincha and Antisana surveyed by A. von Humboldt. Scale 1:200,000 -- Plans of the craters of Vesuvius and Etna by H. Abich, 1834. Scale 1:20,000 -- Physical map of the island of Teneriffe, by Leopold von Buch. Scale 1:550,000 -- Southern view of Etna from M.P.O. near Catania by W.S. Waltershausen -- View of the summit of the peak of Teneriffe and of the crater of elevation which surrounds it, from the east, by Leopold von Buch -- Chart of South Keeling Islands surveyed by the officers of H.M.S. Beagle. Scale 1:200,000 -- Chart of Ascension Island, surveyed by Lieutenant Campbell, R.N. Scale [1:200,000] -- View of Ascension Island from the mountain road -- Plan of the Crater of Cedee in the island of Java trigonometrically surveyed by Dr. Salomon Muller, 1836. Scale 1:20,000 -- Plan of Graham Island by Capt. C.H. Swinburne, 1831. Scale 1:20,000 -- Comparative view of the elevation of the principal active volcanoes on the globe -- Plan of Arthurs Seat, from an original survey. Scale 1:20,000. -- Samson's Ribs. "Geology no. 11."
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[Codazzi, AgustÃn, 1793-1859, Paz, Manuel MarÃa, 1820-1902]
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Geologic cross some mountains of Colombia and navigable rivers that bathe the Colombian territory. Includes note.
Author
[Codazzi, AgustÃn, 1793-1859, Paz, Manuel MarÃa, 1820-1902]
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Color map. Title surrounded by a decorative cartouche. Shows orographic system, watersheds and river basins of Colombia. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Paris, Bogota and Greenwich.
Author
Desjardins, Constant
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Rare color chart framed in decorative borders. Showing comparative table of the greatest Mountains and Volcanoes of the world. Extensive table indicating their relative heights with corresponding numbers.
Author
[Darton, William, Gardner, W.R.]
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This may be the earliest chart to depict the heights of mountains and the lengths of rivers together in one illustration, with the rivers hanging down over the mountains. Wolter says that Bulla's Tableau Comparatif of 1826 is the earliest of the combined mountain and river type, but he had not seen this chart by Gardner done three years earlier and does not list it. This chart is beautifully done and, while not large in size, it is impressive in its scope. Full color. Map is mounted on linen, dissected into 8 sections with an end sheet label reading "The Most Approved Modern Maps, Plans, And Charts, Of every Description, From The Best Authorities, Constantly on Sale at William Darton's Map, Print, and Chart Warehouse, 58, Holborn Hill, London..." Map folds into a dark green marbled cardboard case with a turquoise paper label printed with the map title (as above); there is a "William Darton's, Map seller" bookplate label on the back of the case.
Author
Smith, C.
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Third edition. A colorful rendering of comparative mountain heights worldwide, although separated into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. Other aspects of the illustration (with the exception of showing volcanoes) appear to be fanciful. Substantially more taller mountains than an earlier edition (see our although dates uncertain because the date of 1816 is the same. The peaks are listed, each with a unique number which can be matched up with the numbers at the top and bottom of the illustration. By making a line between the numbers, the corresponding peak is intersected. Latitudes, sources, and altitudes also listed.
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Smith, C.
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The rivers have been necessarily straightened to indicate the lengths of the rivers. The compass orientation of the flowing stream is indicated by small north-pointing arrows periodically drawn adjacent to the stream. Includes table of the Length of Rivers in British Miles. A textual description of the rivers accompanies the illustration; it describes the course of the Missouri River, "recently explored by the Americans" (Lewis and Clark), as being "extremely devious". Beautiful color.
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Wyld, James, 1812-1887
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Printed without color. Includes reference to the name, location and height of the mountains in the world. A late edition of this atlas, published as early as 1836 (see our copy). Several new maps of Australia and South Africa are added and the other maps have been updated to show railroad development. The American maps have been updated, but inadequately so in the West - the River Buenaventura is still flowing out of Salt Lake on the Mexico Map. Half leather cloth-covered boards with stamped title "Wyld's General Atlas" on cover in gold. Maps in color.
Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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Printed in full color with charts listing mountain heights and river lengths. Number "72" from upper right corner of the plate.
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[Thomson, John, Wyld, James, 1790-1836]
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Includes the list of the mountains, their locations and heights. This is the second edition and includes the extra map of the Arctic and two extra maps of Australia. The text adds a section on Voyages of Discovery. Two additional maps are laid in, one of South America, the other of Mexico. Half leather paper-covered boards with label pasted on front printed with title.
Author
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
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Printed in full color with charts listing mountain heights and river lengths. Plate 73 has been inserted as the frontispiece.
Author
Johnson, A.J.
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Full color A Comparative Heights of Mountains and Lengths of Rivers of North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and British Isles. Relief shown by hachures.
Author
Garnier, F. A., 1803-1863
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Twenty-four maps, diagrams and profiles on 1 sheet, col. lithograph. Includes text.
Author
Smith, Charles, fl. 1800-1822
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Shows the comparative heights of mountains in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, as well as the comparative heights of important places. A list of Authorities is given to the left of the title, and an Explanation shows how the system of numbering mountains and places works. A former owner has added "6225....White Mountains, N.H." to the table. This chart may be one of the earliest of its genre; it is not listed in Wolter's "Heights of Mountains..." (he lists the Thomson 1817 similar chart as the first of this type). The British Museum lists this Smith as the first chart of this kind. Interestingly, Smith's chart does not show the Himalayan Mountains; Thomson adds the Himalayan Mountains to his chart with a note about the recent publication of data on their heights. With black top and bottom sticks, and green silk edging. Full hand painted color.
Author
Schonberg & Co.
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Shows lengths of major rivers and heights of mountains; differentiated by hemisphere.
Author
Colton, G.W.
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Comparative chart showing river lengths and receiving water bodies. Another portion shows relative mountain heights and active volcanos as grouped by continent.
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Colton, G.W.
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Comparative chart showing river lengths and receiving water bodies. Another portion shows relative mountain heights and active volcanos as grouped by continent.
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Colton, G.W.
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Comparative chart showing river lengths and receiving water bodies. Another portion shows relative mountain heights as grouped by continent.
Author
Gray, Ormando Willis
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Graphical depiction showing river courses and mountain elevations, all arranged by size. Mountains in color corresponding to continent.
Author
Johnson, A.J.
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Consists of five charts on one sheet.
Author
Martin de Moussy, V. (Victor), 1810-1869
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Six groups of geologic columns and profiles, and 4 drawings showing the relative elevations of mountains. Lithographed. Contents: Coupes generale des terrains tertiaires -- Section est ouest des plaines de la Patagonie -- Coupe generale des terrains de la Rive ... du Rio Parana -- Coupes geologiques des divers points des cotes de la Patagonie reconnus par C. Darwin -- Montagnes de la Terre de Feu -- Systeme des petites Sierras du Sud: Vulcan, Tandil, Tinta, Azul -- Systeme orographique des cotes de la Patagonie -- Systeme des Sierras de la Ventana, Cruza-Malal et Guamini. "Description geographique et statistique de la Confederation Argentine. Atlas. Planche XXII."
Author
[Goujon, J, Andriveau, J.]
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Considered by many to be the artistic and factual high point in the comparative mountains and rivers charts, a convention developed in the 19th century. Beautifully colored with fine graphics and art and closely corresponding statistical tables, it presents an appealing balance. Different mountain ranges in different colors. Extensive annotations on vegetation, volcanic activity, and lichen, no doubt derived from Humboldt. Of course, due to the early date, the geographical data does not reflect many later discoveries, like taller waterfalls in Yosemite or the actual length of the Nile. Shows 7000 meter high hot air balloon flight by Guy-Lussac in 1808. Mounted on heavy linen. Sheet 48 in disbound atlas.
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Paz Soldan, Mariano Felipe, 1821-1886
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Lithographed drawing in black and sepia.
Author
Codazzi, Agustin, 1793-1859
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One sheet of lithographed charts, views and maps. Includes "Prospectiva ideal de la Cordillera ...," "Tabla comparativa del curso de los principales rios de Venezuela ...," and "Tabla comparativa de la extension de cada provincia en leguas cuadradas ... con la poblacion absoluta y relativa de las mismas."
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