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Hand-coloured 1851 world map showing racial distribution, with skull diagrams and an inset map of prevailing religions.

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Ethnographical map showing the distribution of the human race, John Emslie (1851). Via artnap.com

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A hand-coloured ethnographical map titled The Distribution of the Human Race, showing regions of the world shaded by racial groups, with inset diagrams of skulls labelled Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, Malay and American. A smaller inset map depicts prevailing religions, and text panels list population estimates and languages. The print was drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published in London by James Reynolds in 1851.