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1874 World Map Wood Framed with hanging wire. LOCAL PICKUP ONLY (near corner of Talbot and Catalina in Point Loma area of San Diego, Ca)
A world map titled “The World on Mercator's Projection.
Subtitle: "Shewing the Great Ocean Currents, the Tracks of American and English Vessels, with their distances from port to port and all Places of Commercial & Political Importance." Features include two circular inset diagrams in the corners showing the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Smallest print in top section says at last line: “Entered according to act of congress in the Year 1874 by J.B.Beers & Co, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.”
Cartographic Style: Hand-colored pastel lithograph reproduction style standard of late 19th-century American and British geography atlases.
Hemisphere Insets: Two circular polar projections in the upper corners showcase the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere mapping layout from an axial perspective.
Historical Accuracy: Features unmapped white patches around the deep Arctic and Antarctic zones, reflecting the early exploration limits of the 1870s.
