- Bib ID:
- 7386667
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Wyld, James, 1812-1887, cartographer
- Scale:
- Scale differs (W 9°55ʹ--E 4°53ʹ/N 44°00ʹ--N 36°00ʹ).
- Description:
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- London : James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing Cross East, 1840
- 1 volume (3 leaves, [38] leaves of plates (some folded, some double leaves)) : illustrations (some colour, some folded), maps (some colour, some folded) ; 86.5 cm
- Notes:
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- The atlas provides the most accurate description of the terrain of the battlefields in which the British Army was engaged in during the war from 1808 to 1814, in the Spanish Peninsula and the South of France. Relief shown by hachures.
- "J.R.P.O."--Spine.
- Maps chiefly by Sir Thomas L. Mitchell.
- Includes 38 lithographed maps and plans, many with hand-coloured troop positions and some geographical features, text, and insets. Three maps have coloured overlays, seven maps with vignette views, and a lithographed plate with five views.
- Cited In:
- Tooley’s dictionary of mapmakers (1999-2004 edition), page 263
- Subject:
-
- Time Coverage:
- 1808-1814
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mitchell, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1855, cartographer
- Also Titled:
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- Maps & plans of the principal movements, battles and sieges, in which the British Army was engaged during the war from 1808 to 1814
- Atlas of battles
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1887
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1840
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