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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's Asia.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's Asia.
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English: This is A. J. Johnson and Ward’s 1867 map of Asia. Covers the continent in considerable detail with regional color coding. Includes parts of Africa, Europe and Polynesia. In 1867 Johnson did a major re-engraving of many of his maps, including this large double page preparation of a previously single page map. Features the fretwork border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1864 to 1869. Steel plate engraving prepared by A. J. Johnson for publication as page nos. 95-96 in the 1867 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas… Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year of 1867, by A. J. Johnson in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Date 1867 (dated)
Dimensions height: 15.5 in (39.3 cm); width: 22.5 in (57.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Asia-johnson-1867
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Johnson, A. J., Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. (1867 A. J. Johnson edition)

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