Map of Persia, Turkey in Asia : Afghanistan, Beloochistan / contributors Mitchell, S. Augustus, Jr. (Samuel Augustus).
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: [Philadelphia] : S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., [1869].Description: 1 map : color ; 23 x 31 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G7420. M376 1869
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.M376 1869 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000506807 |
“Shows parts of Egypt and Nubia east of the Nile”.
“LC copy has slip attached: Property of Andrew Arthur Benton, New York, N.Y.”.
“LC copy has handwritten note in bottom margin: Mitchell's New General Atlas-1869”.
“Has a note at the bottom saying, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by S”. “Augustus Mitchell in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania”.
“Description Shows parts of Egypt and Nubia east of the Nile. Has a note at the bottom saying, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." LC copy has handwritten note in bottom margin: Mitchell's New General Atlas-1869. LC copy has slip attached: Property of Andrew Arthur Benton, New York, N.Y.”.
“Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792–1868) was a renowned American geographer and cartographer. The majority of his work focused on the United States, but he also made maps of other parts of the world, including this 1868 map of the Ottoman Empire, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. The main territorial units that Mitchell shows are Turkey, meaning the core of the Ottoman Empire comprised of present-day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon; Persia; Afghanistan; and Baluchistan (mainly present-day Pakistan). Egypt and much of the Arabian Peninsula were at that time technically under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, but they were highly autonomous and Mitchell shows them as separate states. An inset map at the lower left depicts Palestine, or the Holy Land, a subject of great interest to 19th-century American readers. This map also was published in Mitchell's New General Atlas (1869)”—copied from website.
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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