Carte du Cours de Rio Meta et d'une partie de la Chaine Orientale des Montages de la Nouvelle Grenade dressée sur des observations atsronomiques et (quant au Meta) d'après une manuscrite de Dr. J. Cortès Madariga par Alexandre de Humboldt.

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 2
Scope and content:

[Map of the Course of the Rio Meta and part of the Eastern Mountain Range of New Granada drawn up on atsronomic observations and (as for the Meta) according to a manuscript of Dr. J. Cortes Madariga by Alexander of Humboldt.]

The map plots course of the Meta River from New Granada , present day Colombia. Legend identifies cities and villages shown. Astronomic and geographic poits of observation shown. Rielf by harchures.

Plate 19 of the atlas Voyage de MM. Alexandre de Humboldt et Aime Bonpland. Atlas Geographique et Physique, pour Accompagner la Relation Historique. Sixieme livraison. Paris, J. Smith, Rue Montmorency, No. 16; Londres, Dulau et Compie., Soho-Square. 1831.

Alexander von Humboldt - geographer

Jean-Baptiste Poirson - cartographer

Pierre Antoine François Tardieu, Place de l'Estrapade, Paris - lithographer

J. Smith, Rue Montmorency, No. 16; Londres, Dulau et Compie, Soho-Square, Paris - publisher

lithograph, black and white

25 cm x 51 cm

1 : 2,600,000

Language:
English

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