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  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geography: a man in his study using dividers to measure a globe, two putti fly up with a [blank] banderole. Etching.
  • Geography: a map of the world, with local scenes around. Coloured lithograph.
  • Geography: two rotating discs showing the hemispheres of the earth, fixed to a card giving details of their use. Engraving by J. Emslie, 1844, after himself.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, et quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Geography: the earth, and methods of mapping. Coloured engraving by Neele, 1807.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Theatrvm orbis terrarvm / Opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, et quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.
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Works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Miscellany: United States of America, 19th-20th centuries

    | Date: 1831-1880 | Reference: MS.7428
  • view Report of first expedition to South America, 1913.
    • Books
    • Online

    Report of first expedition to South America, 1913.

    Harvard School of Tropical Medicine. | Date: 1915
    • Books
    • Online

    The knowledge of the heavens and the earth made easy: or, the first principles of astronomy and geography explain'd by the use of globes and maps: ... By I. Watts.

    Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. | Date: 1726
    • Books

    Health, disease, and society : an introduction to medical geography / Kelvyn Jones and Graham Moon.

    Jones, Kelvyn | Date: 1992, ©1987
  • view Geography: six views of the Earth, showing different ways of projecting information. Engraving.
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    Geography: six views of the Earth, showing different ways of projecting information. Engraving.

    | Reference: 46627i
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