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J. H. Colton: Brazil and Guayana.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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J. H. Colton  (1800–1893)  wikidata:Q6105865
 
J. H. Colton
Alternative names
Joseph Hutchins Colton
Description American cartographer and geographer
Date of birth/death 5 July 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1893 / 19 July 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Longmeadow Edit this at Wikidata New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q6105865
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Brazil and Guayana.
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English: An excellent first edition example of Colton's rare 1855 map Brazil, British Guyana, French Guyana (Cayenne), and Dutch Guyana (Surinam). Covers from Venezuela to Uruguay and from the Amazon basin to the Atlantic. Insets detail maps of Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro appear in the lower left quadrant. Throughout the map Colton identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, rapids, fords, and an assortment of additional topographical details. Map is hand colored in pink, green, yellow and blue pastels to define national and regional boundaries. Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border. Dated and copyrighted to J. H. Colton, 1855. Published as page no. 61 in volume 1 of the first edition of George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World .
Date 1855 (dated)
Dimensions height: 16 in (40.6 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
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Geographicus link: Brazil-colton-1855
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Colton, G. W., Colton's Atlas of the World Illustrating Physical and Political Geography, Vol 1, New York, 1855 (First Edition).

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