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Samuel Augustus Mitchell: Persia, Arabia, and Afghanistan.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Samuel Augustus Mitchell  (1792–1868)  wikidata:Q3445785
 
Alternative names
S. Augustus Mitchell; S. Augustus Mitchell, Sr.
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1792 18 December 1868 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol Philadelphia
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artist QS:P170,Q3445785
Title
Persia, Arabia, and Afghanistan.
Description
English: This beautiful hand colored map is a lithographic engraving of Persian and Arabia, dating to 1850, by the legendary American map publisher S.A. Mitchell, the elder. Includes what is today Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Many fascinating features including desert oases, caravan routes, and camps, as well as both political and geographical information. Dated and copyrighted: “1850 by Thomas Cowperthwait & co. in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.”.
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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: Arabia-m-50
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