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World – Cordiform – Curiosity

Name: World - Cordiform - Curiosity
SKU: 4576
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£22.00

Bartholomew, John: The World

SKU: 4576 Categories: Cartographical Curiosities, Maps, World - Polar Regions Tags: curiosity, maps, world

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Bartholomew, John The World

John Bartholomew and Co Edinburgh c1940

colour printed map; overall 11 x 16 cm. fold as issued; exc. cond.

A very charming world map in cordiform by John Bartholomew from his ‘Pocket Atlas of the World’, first published in the late 1890s with many more editions to follow. With a diagram of the World’s tallest mountains on either side and some stellar constellations. – On verso: Atlas carrying the World on his shoulders and a polar and ovoid projection of the the World.

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