The World on Mercators Projection showing both the Eastern & Western Maritime Route to Australia and the difference of Time at succesive Hour-Circles east & west of Greenwich
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London. Virtue & Co., circa 1874 . Stock ID #174897 Printed colour map, 18.4 x 24.1 cm, edge wear, marginal spotting and on the verso, but the map in very good condition. Unusual map showing time differences east and west of Greenwich, before the atomic clock and well before satellites! The explanatory text notes aso that: The space comprehended between the meridiens of 120 & 160 E,. is repeated in order to
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