Print of hand colored steel engraving titled „Carte Physique et Politique de L’ Amerique Septentrionale“.

Drawn by L. Dussieux.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Atlas General De Geographie physique, politique et historique par L. Dussieux. Atlas de Geographie ancienne, du moyen age et Moderne“. Paris. 1854.

Louis-Étienne Dussieux, born April 5, 1815 in Lyon and died February 11, 1894 in Paris. He was a French historian-geographer.

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea.North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 16.5% of the earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 565 million people in 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population, if nearby islands (most notably the Caribbean) are included.

Approx. image size 39, 3 x 28, 4/42, 5 x 31, 8 cm. Condition: good.