Johnson’s Turkey in Asia Persia Arabia &c. / by Johnson and Ward.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: [New York] : Johnson and Ward, [1864].Description: 1 map : color ; 27 x 38 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • G7420. J646 1864
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Map Map Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University G7420.J646 1864 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. 3ACKU000506906
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“Description Shows good details of the towns and cities along the Nile in Egypt, Nubia, and Sennar (in Sudan). Relief shown by hachures. Has a slip note stating "Johnson's New Ilustrated Family Atlas, John & Ward, New York, 1864." Includes illustrations depicting Muscat, Trebisond and Castle and Port of Smyrna. "Chronological history of the Great Rebellion" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "89." LC copy hand colored and stamped "626888”.

“Johnson’s Turkey in Asia, Persia, Arabia, etc. This map of the Middle East and Central and South Asia extending from the Nile Valley to the boundary of Afghanistan with British India is from Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas, published in New York in 1864. The map shows national capitals, provincial capitals, principal towns, and railroads. The Suez Canal, under construction at this time, is shown as proposed. The map provides a detailed overview of the towns and cities along the Nile in Egypt, Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan), and Sennar (present-day Sudan), and of the river’s major cataracts. Illustrations depict the port cities of Muscat in Oman and Trebizond and Smyrna in Turkey. Like many of the maps in Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas, this map originally was produced by J.H. Colton & Company of New York and displays the distinctive decorative border characteristic of most Colton maps”—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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