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Johnson's Palestine published by A.J. Johnson, New York. c1867

Johnson's Palestine published by A.J. Johnson, New York. c1867

by Johnson, A.J.

Palestine antique map with Peninsula of Mount Sinai.

Finely engraved and coloured antique map of Palestine c1867 by A.J. Johnson, with contemporary colour defining and outlining  the regions - surrounded by an intricately engraved spirograph border.

Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884) was a prolific American map publisher from 1856 to the mid-1880s. From a poor background, with minimal education, Johnson was a school teacher and then door-to-door bookseller before moving from Vermont to Richmond, Virginia in 1856 to work as a salesman for map publisher J.H. Colton and Company. Joseph Colton had established a fine reputation in America for accurate maps embellished by finely-engraved borders. Johnson set up his own publishing company in 1859 with Colton map plates. He published his first significant work, Johnson’s New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas in 1860. Until 1887 these maps were updated and published by a series of Johnson partnerships - with different decorative borders differentiating the date of the map.

(Text on the reverse of this map is Historical and Statistical View of Europe.)
There is a large water-stain across lower right of page, lower left edge of paper is missing, and small pieces of yellowed cellotape repaired small edge tears at top (not showing at front). To its border the map measures 495 x 290mm (19.1/2 x 11.3/8 inches). The page size is 460 x 340 mm (approximately 18 x 13.3/8 inches).

Stock Number: amJPal.111Price: $165.00

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