Date Note | The colouring of the map bears similarities to LDGSL/947/6/H/2 and is therefore given a similar upper date span |
Description | Geological colouring, with key, and notes by George Bellas Greenough, [1828-1847], on base map 'Scandia or Scandinavia comprehending Sweden and Norway with the Danish Islands, to which is added the remainder of the possessions of Denmark', by L S Delarochette, engraved by W Palmer, published by William Faden, 1794. Scale-1:3,000,000. Dissected on cloth. Greenough no. 1137. |
Administrative History | Bibliographic references on the map includes: Leopold von Buch 'Travels through Norway and Lapland, during the years 1806, 1807, and 1808' (1813); Nicolas Desmarest, 'Encyclopédie méthodique. Géographie-physique' (1811); Alexandre Brongniart "Notice sur des blocs de roches des terrains de transport en Suède", Annales des Sciences naturelles, vol XIV (1828); 'Knorr' which may be G W Knorr & J E I Walch, 'Recueil de monumens des catastrophes que le globe de terre a éssuiées, contenant des petrifactions et d'autres pierres curieuses, dessinées, gravées et eluminées, d'aprés les originaux'(1768-1778). |