Middleton's System of Geography

Middleton's System of Geography carried a 1779 London reader around the world, from Batavia and Malacca to Cairo, Jerusalem,...

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Middleton's System of Geography carried a 1779 London reader around the world, from Batavia and Malacca to Cairo, Jerusalem, Siberia, Japan and Africa. Credited to Charles Theodore Middleton and published for J. Cooke, the work relies on Thomas Bowen for its world and continental maps, while the prints show the cities, inhabitants, monuments and natural history described in the text, including costume and travel scenes, plants, animals and the terrestrial and celestial globes. Some plates reproduce information now known to be wrong, among them an imaginary Philippine island.

Middleton's System of Geography carried a 1779 London reader around the world, from Batavia and Malacca to Cairo, Jerusalem, Siberia, Japan and Africa. Credited to Charles Theodore Middleton and published for J. Cooke, the work relies on Thomas Bowen for its world and continental maps, while the prints show the cities, inhabitants, monuments and natural history described in the text, including costume and travel scenes, plants, animals and the terrestrial and celestial globes. Some plates reproduce information now known to be wrong, among them an imaginary Philippine island.

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