Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Geographisches Verzeichniss der verschiedenen Menschenarten, und der muthmaslichen Wege ihrer Verbreitung aus ihren ersten Wohnungen über den ganzen Erdboden.

Accession number: 
63-248
Record number: 
63-248-6
JCB call number: 
J796 W959u
Image title: 
Geographisches Verzeichniss der verschiedenen Menschenarten, und der muthmaslichen Wege ihrer Verbreitung aus ihren ersten Wohnungen über den ganzen Erdboden.
Place image published: 
[Leipzig ]
Image publisher: 
[Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf & Co.]
Image date: 
[1796]
Image function: 
fold-out plate 14; following p. 418
Technique: 
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
14.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
28.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
16.3 cm.
Page dimension width: 
37 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
German
Description: 
Map of the world in two hemispheres showing the emigration of the peoples of the world. Different colors of ink indicate original location of various races, other inks indicate routes taken by various emigrants.
Source creator: 
Wünsch, Christian Ernst, 1744-1828
Source Title: 
[Kosmologische Unterhaltungen] Unterhaltung uber den menschen ...
Source place of publication: 
Leipzig
Source publisher: 
Bei Joh. Gottl. Imm. Breitkopf, John u. Comp.
Source date: 
1796
notes: 
Wünsch, a German philosopher, mathematician, and physician, first wrote this anthropological study of mankind in 1770. He focused on culture and man's external appearances.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1963.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R. I. 02912
geographic area: 
Arctic
geographic area: 
Brazil
geographic area: 
Caribbean Islands
geographic area: 
Guianas
geographic area: 
North America
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings: 
World maps
Subject headings: 
Ethnology