Printed Map (Engraving, Coloured) Showing Meteorological and Agricultural Zones Entitled 'Isothermal Chart; or View of the Climates & Productions of the Earth', by W. C. Woodbridge, Engraved and Printed by Perkins and Heath, London, 1827

Printed meteorological and agricultural map of the world, ?hand-coloured. Off-centre crease indicating it is a folding plate from a book. Woodbridge was an American geographer and cartographer who spent some years in Europe, during which he published the influential geography textbook 'A System of Universal Geography' (1824, 2nd edition 1827, and many subsequent editions). Perkins & Heath were one of the most technically advanced London printing firms in the 1820s, known for their early process for security-printing of bank notes.