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C1850
Betts’s Family Atlas / Southern Africa
Mapmaker:
Fine map of Southern Africa with excellent inland information, inset of “Country of the Galla and Somauli Tribes.” at lower left. From Betts’s Family Atlas.
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Full Title:
Betts’s Family Atlas / Southern Africa
Date:
C1850
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Centrefold strengthened, small repaired tear at right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
660mm
x 423mm
Paper Size:
681mm
x 423mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1850
Description:
Fine map of Southern Africa with excellent inland information, inset of “Country of the Galla and Somauli Tribes.” at lower left.
From Betts’s Family Atlas.
John Betts (1803 - 1889)
Betts was a London bookseller, publisher of maps, atlases, globes, games and stationary. Born in Islington, London about 1803 and apprenticed to William Darton. His apprenticeship premium of fifteen pounds was given by the Quakers of Devonshire House and thirty pounds paid by instalments by the Committee of Friends School, Islington Road. He was elected Fellow Royal Geographical Society in 1839. In 1856 he was granted a patent for improvements in the preparation or manufacture of artificial spheres and again in 1858 for improvements in obtaining surfaces on which to print maps and other designs. He published A Family Atlas and the series, Sixpenny Maps. He was retired by 1881.
