COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Rand McNally and Company
Date:
1897
Short Title:
Africa, Suez Canal.
Publisher:
Rand McNally
Publisher Location:
Chicago
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
66
Obj Width cm:
50
Scale 1:
17,000,000
Note:
Col. map. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Insets: Canal of Suez. Scale (ca. 1:1,100,000) -- Cape Verde Islands -- (Caragados Carayos Islands, Mascarene Islands). Title in margin: Rand, McNally & Company's indexed atlas of the world.
World Area:
Africa
Country:
Egypt
Region:
Suez Canal (Egypt)
Full Title:
Rand, McNally & Company's indexed atlas of the world map of Africa. (with) Canal of Suez. Copyright 1895, by Rand, McNally & Co. ... Engravers, Chicago, (1897)
List No:
3565.035
Page No:
134-135
Series No:
40
Publication Author:
Rand McNally and Company
Pub Date:
1897
Pub Title:
Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed atlas of the world containing large scale maps of every country and civil division upon the face of the globe, together with historical, descriptive, and statistical matter relative to each ... Accompanied by a new and original compilation forming a ready reference index ... Engraved, printed and published by Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago and New York, U.S.A., 1897. (on verso) Copyright, 1894, by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago ... (complete in two volumes)
Pub Reference:
cf Phillips, 1026 (1898 ed.)
Pub Note:
This was Rand McNally's highwater mark for its 19th century atlases. No obvious changes from the 1896 edition. Similar to the 1897 Standard Atlas of the World. Vol 1 - Foreign Countries, Vol 2 - United States. Map in full printed color. Atlas is bound in green cloth covers with "The Rand-McNally indexed atlas of the world . Foreign countries" and " ... United States" stamped in gilt on Volumes 1 and 2, respectively.
Pub List No:
3565.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
125
Pub Height cm:
57
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
3565035
Authors:
Rand McNally and Company
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
