This unusual map was created by Robert Hewitt and issued in his book Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses. It presents the world on Mercator's Projection with a key at lower left identifying which regions can grow coffee and how much the local inhabitants consume it. Most of the American cities are shown with red dots, indicating that "consumption is rapidly increasing." Text at bottom right states that the increase in coffee consumption "proves that the beverage is fast becoming one of the universal necessities of civilized life." Unrelated to coffee, the map curiously also locates telegraph lines, contemplated telegraph lines, and routes of steamers.

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Condition: B

Issued folding with a number of short fold separations closed on verso with archival tape and some minor loss at the left fold junction. An adjacent 3.5" tear has also been archivally repaired on verso. Trimmed to the border at left with a narrow right side margin.