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This image contains an epidemiological map depicting the spread of the 1892 Cholera Epidemic across Imperial Russia, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The map is one of only a handful of Cholera maps to have been printed entirely in…

Publisher's Note: Philips listing under Desbuissons. Other Phillips editions in 1891 and 1898. See our 1902 edition. A late date for an atlas to have hand colored maps, as this does. With a large folding railroad map of Europe in the back. The…

This black and white map was referenced in an 1892 issue of “The Graphic” periodical, which was based in London, and showed us districts, cities, and regions affected by the Russian famine of 1891. The map key is quite simple and in a binary easy…

“Cholera epidemics regularly spread up the Volga from Astrakhan, most devastatingly in 1892 and 1893 when the disease ravaged the working population of the fair. “
Description of Cholera entering Niznhy Novgorod in 1892 from Melnikov Ocherki,…