In bottom left margin: Printed by Wm. Duffee., In top margin: American atlas., Includes text, ill., and insets of "Western part of the Aleutian Islands" and "Comparative altitudes of the mountains, towns &c. of North America.", and Possibly from 1923 ed. of Tanner's A new American atlas.
Publisher:
H.S. Tanner,
Subject (Geographic):
Central America--Maps and North America--Maps
Subject (Name):
Tanner, Henry Schenck, 1786-1858. New American atlas
"Nachtrag̈e zur Vervollständigung von West-Indien und den Britischen Ländern; nebst Verbesserungen in den Verein. Staaten 1834-5, von Ad. St. u. H. Bgs.", "Neue Ausgabe no. LIV, Stielers Hand-Atlas (No. 46.)", Includes text., and Relief shown by hachures.
Publisher:
J. Perthes?,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps
Subject (Name):
Stieler, Adolf, 1775-1836. Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde and Thiel, L
Includes tables of distances for overland routes and sea routes., Inset: Map of the gold region California. Scale [ca. 1:4,752,000]., Prime meridian: Washington, D.C., and Relief shown by hachures.
Includes tables of distances for overland routes and sea routes., Inset map: Map of the gold region, California., Prime meridian: Washington, D.C., and Relief shown by hachures.
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543. Ambassadors Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
Published / Created:
ca. 1885?]
Call Number:
2003 1481
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Accompanied by small carved wooden stand, stamped "Hong Kong" and "Kin [Hanooc?]", BEIN 2003 1481: Imperfect: globe is cracked the length of the Pacific Ocean but there is no loss of text. With stand in box shelved as BEIN 2003 1481 2., Delineates Magellan's track and discoveries; shows North America as a continent distinct from Asia, separated by a strait., Nineteenth century facsimile of a 16th century terrestrial globe of the type depicted in Hans Holbein's 1533 painting commonly known as "The ambassadors.", The terrestrial globe in the Holbein painting was traditionally thought to have been based on a lost 1523 terrestrial globe by Johannes Schöner. Cf. Baynes-Cope, A.D. "The investigation of a group of globes" in: Imago mundi: Journal of the International Society for the History of Cartography, no. 33 (1981): 9-19. Cf. Dekker and Lippincott. "The scientific instruments in Holbein's 'Ambassadors': a re-examination" in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 62 (1999): 93-125., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Continuation inset: Central America [12 x 17 cm., scale ca. 1:11,000,000] and Includes time and distance table, list of Presidents, 1860 population statistics, and explanation of British American possessions.
Publisher:
Haasis & Lubrecht,
Subject (Geographic):
North America--Maps and United States--Maps
Subject (Name):
B.B. Russell & Co., publisher, Ch. Lubrecht & Co., publisher, Haasis & Lubrecht, publisher, J. & D. Beatson Co., publisher, and Lubrecht & Co., publisher