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Shows exploration routes in southern, central, and eastern Africa and geologic features in the Cape area.
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0z709819k
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Karte von Süd-Afrika zur übersicht der neuesten entdeckungen von Livingstone, Moffat, Galton, Anderson
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map
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0z709819k
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map
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title
Karte von Süd-Afrika zur übersicht der neuesten entdeckungen von Livingstone, Moffat, Galton, Anderson
description
Shows exploration routes in southern, central, and eastern Africa and geologic features in the Cape area.
date
["1858"]
year
1858
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
German
identifierLocal
06_01_015362
creators
Petermann, A. (August), 1822-1878
Justus Perthes (Firm : Gotha, Germany)
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Africa, Southern--Discovery and exploration--Maps
Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883
Galton, Francis, 1822-1911
Andersson, Charles John, 1827-1867
subjectsGeographic
Africa
Southern Africa
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Maps
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Cartographic
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1
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Gotha
publisher
Justus Perthes
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41688024w
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-22.433
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25.216
extent
1 map : hand colored ; 52 x 45 cm
notes
Shows exploration routes in southern, central, and eastern Africa and geologic features in the Cape area.
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Tafel 7 from: Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen, Jahrgang 1858.
Prime meridians: Greenwich and Paris.
Includes "Profil von Livingstone's Reisewege quer durch Afrika, von Loanda nach Quilimane."
Insets: Physikalische skizze von Süd-Afrika. (Botanische, zoologische, ethnographische Grenzen &.&.) -- Vergleichende übersicht der neuesten vorstellungen über die geographie des inneren Süd-Afrika's (H. Kiepert, Nov. 1855; J. McQueen, März 1857; D. Livingstone, Nov. 1857).
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