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Alvin Jewett Johnson: Johnson's China.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Alvin Jewett Johnson  (1827–1884)  wikidata:Q18507750
 
Alternative names
A. J. Johnson
Description American publisher and cartographer
Date of birth/death 23 September 1827 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1884 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wallingford Brooklyn
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New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507750
Title
Johnson's China.
Description
English: This is Johnson and Browning’s 1861 map of China, first edition. Covers the region with particular attention to cities and waterways. China at the time this map was made was mostly closed country, however, a few ports were opened to western trade, these few are noted in capital letters and include Tanchau, Kaifung, Waingan, Shanghai, Canton and Nanking (Nanjing) among others. Insets detail the “Island of Amoy” and Canton (Hong Kong). Features the ribbon style border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1862. Steel plate engraving prepared by A. J. Johnson for publication as plate no. 86 in the 1861 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas… This is the last edition of the Johnson’s Atlas to exclusively bear the Johnson and Browning imprint.
Date 1861 (undated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 15.5 in (39.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,15.5U218593
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Geographicus link: China-johnson-1861
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Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, (1861 Johnson and Browning edition).

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