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  1865 (undated)         1 : 62070000 Description A very attractive manuscript schoolboy map of the world executed by George A. Knight, in or about 1865. The map covers the world on a double-hemisphere projection, with geographical features corresponding very closely to the two separate maps of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres printed in Mitchell s Intermediate Atlas. Specifically, the 1865 editions exhibit similarity and are likely the source used for this map. An Extraordinary Example of a Schoolgirl mapThe map is meticulously drawn, inked, and colored. The border is one of the most finely-executed we have seen on a map of this kind: an exceedingly clear, fine-lined botanical motif, embellished with four cornucopias, and naming three of the cardinal directions. In place of north, above map s title is a variation on the theme of the Great Seal of the United States: a Bald Eagle, with olive branches and arrows astride a shield with the Stars and Stripes, and t

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