GENOA (GENOVA)
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Detailed plan of the city of Genoa.Original outline wash colour.Inset of area around Genoa.Elevation of major buildings run along bottom of map.V.good condition.
code : M250
Cartographer : S.D.U.K
Date : 1836 London
Size : 29*37cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge was founded by John, Earl Russell, and Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor of England in 1827. The Society’s main purpose was to encourage universal literacy by publishing numbers of books of good quality that would be affordable to the poor. Perhaps the grandest of their publications was their atlas, originally entitled “Maps Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge”, first issued by Baldwin and Cradock, and then re-issued by other publishers, latterly Edward Stanford.