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Justus Perthes: Oestliche Halbkugel   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Justus Perthes  (1749–1816)  wikidata:Q61592
 
Justus Perthes
Alternative names
Johann Georg Justus Perthes
Description cartographer
Date of birth/death 11 September 1749 Edit this at Wikidata 1 May 1816 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany Gotha, Thuringia, Germany
Work period 1880 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Sumatra Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q61592
Title
Oestliche Halbkugel
Description
English: This is a beautiful example of Stieler’s 1873 map of the Eastern Hemisphere. Includes the entirety of Asia, Europe and Africa as well as Australia and much of the Pacific. Also includes those parts of Antarctica, including “Wilkes’ Land?”, that had been positively identified at the time. Rich in detail, as was typical of German, and especially Perthes/Stieler maps of this period. Published by the Justus Perthes firm and engraved by Johann Carl Ausfeld as plate no. 7 for issue in the 1873 edition of Stieler’s Hand-Atlas .
Date 1873 (dated)
Dimensions height: 13.7 in (34.9 cm); width: 15.5 in (39.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,13.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,15.5U218593
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Geographicus link: EasternHemisphere-stieler-1873
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Stieler's Hand-Atlas (1873 issue).

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