[TURKEY.]
Johnston’s war map of Turkey in Europe with latest divisions and railways 1876. Edinburgh and London, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1876.
8vo (54 x 63.5 cm opened), folding engraved hand-coloured map, in 15 sections, on linen; small loss at left edge, some light soiling; very good; brown cloth covers with printed label ‘No. L Turkey in Europe 1876’; a few names added in pencil and red ink.
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Johnston’s war map of Turkey in Europe with latest divisions and railways 1876.
Showing the Balkans. A handsome map published by the firm established in 1826 by the Scottish geographers William (1802-88) and (Alexander) Keith Johnston (1804-71). ‘The Johnston partnership – which also encompassed William’s and Keith’s younger brother, Thomas Brumby (d. 1897); Thomas’s sons Archibald, Thomas Ruddiman, James Wilson, and George Harvey; and Johnston’s only son, (Alexander) Keith Johnston, the younger – was one of the most important map-publishing firms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ (ODNB).