'Principales Rivières du globe'. World's longest rivers. BUCHON, 1825 old map
Artist/engraver/cartographer: Jean Alexandre Buchon. Provenance: Atlas géographique, statistique, historique et chronologique des Deux Amériques et des iles adjacentes; par Buchon, dédié à Le Duc d'Orléans, à Paris, à la librairie de J. Carez, éditeur, Rue Haute feuille, no 18; Chez Verdiere, Quai des Augustins, no 25; Chez Bossange, père, Rue de Richelieu, No. 60. MDCCCXXV. Type: Very decorative early 19th century antique hand-coloured chart. Text in French. This decorative chart reflects the limited state of European knowledge of the world's major rivers at the time, omitting or incorrectly recording the lengths of many of the world's major systems. Published before the true source of the Nile was identified later in the 19th century, it records the river as being 3,200km in length, less than half of its actual length of 6,650km. The length of the Amazon is nearly accurate. Curiously, the world's longest river is identified as being the Mississippi-Missouri at 7,200km in length - substantially more than its actual length of 6,300km. In China, the Yellow River (Huang He) is marked, but its length is substuantially understated. The Yangtze River - the world's 3rd longest - is omitted entirely
Size: 7900px × 6002px
Location: World
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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