| Method | Lithograph printed in colours |
| Artist | Johnston, Keith after Rogers, Henry Darwin |
| Published | William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh & London. c. 1856 |
| Dimensions | 510 x 615 mm |
| Notes |
A wonderfully detailed and early geological map of the USA, from Keith Johnston's Physical Atlas with a cross section of the Appalachian Mountains from Lake Onterio to Egg Harbour, New Jersey. Full title reads 'Geological map of the United States and British North America, constructed from the most recent documents & unpublished materials, for Keith Johnston's Physical atlas by Professor H.D. Rogers, Boston, U.S., 1855.' Alexander Keith Johnston (28 December 1804 - 9 July 1871) was a Scottish geographer. He was born at Kirkhill near Edinburgh. After an education at the high school and the University of Edinburgh he was apprenticed to an engraver; and in 1826 joined his brother (who would become Sir William Johnston, Lord Provost of Edinburgh) in a printing and engraving business, forming the well-known cartographical firm of W. and A. K. Johnston. His interest in geography had developed early, and his first important work was the National Atlas of General Geography, which gained for him in 1843 the appointment of Geographer Royal for Scotland. Johnston was the first to bring the study of physical geography into competent notice in England. His attention had been called to the subject by Alexander von Humboldt; and after years of labour he published his magnificent Physical Atlas in 1848, followed by a second and enlarged edition in 1856. This, by means of maps with descriptive letterpress, illustrates the geology, hydrography, meteorology, botany, zoology, and ethnology of the globe. The rest of Johnston's life was devoted to geography, his later years to its educational aspects especially. His services were recognised by the leading scientific societies of Europe and America. He died at Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire, in 1871. Prof Henry Darwin Rogers (1 August 1808 – 26 May 1866) was an American geologist who carried out numerous geological and mineralogical surveys of the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century, culminating in the 1858, two volume, publication of 'The Geology of Pennsylvania, a Government Survey'. Condition: Pressed centrefold as issued. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £375.00 |
| Stock ID | 38218 |