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Polynesia
Title
Polynesia.
Publication
London : Liverpool : George Philip & Son, [1888?]
Physical Description
7 maps on 1 sheet : color, dissected and mounted on linen ; each 51 x 31 cm or smaller, sheet 55 x 65 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scales differ (E 166°00'--W 89°02'/N 22°37'--S 47°51').
Local Notes
BEIN Small 267 1890: Imperfect: all but map of New Zealand wanting. Manuscript travel route in red ink, with dates and some location names.
Notes
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
Shows completed and in-progress railroads in New Zealand.
Exists in at least two editions. This edition shows railroads on the map of New Zealand and includes a railroad legend under the title and bar scales. Additionally, the inset map of the country round Dunedin includes the note "Heights in feet" between the title and bar scale. The other edition lacks railroads and the legend for them, and the text between the title and bar scale of the inset map of the country round Dunedin instead says, "From Thomsons map."
George Philip & Son began advertising this map in 1888.
Bar scales given in English miles and kilometers.
Variant and related titles
New Zealand
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 14, 2022
Contents
(1) The Marquesas, Society Islands, and low archipelago
(2) The Fiji, Friendly, and Samoa islands
(3) The New Hebrides and Santa Cruz islands
(4) The Galapagos I.
(5) The Sandwich Islds.
(6) The Ladrones or Marian Islands
New Zealand / by W. Hughes, F.R.G.S. (scale aproximately 1:3,750,000), with insets: (7) [Norfolk and Philip islands], (8) Enlarged map of Auckland and the adjacent country, and (9) Enlarged plan of the country round Dunedin and the eastern portion of the Otago Gold Fields.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Maps.
Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century.
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England London.
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