Hewitt, Robert (sold)
Robert Hewitt (May 31, 1841 - October 6, 1913) was a New York based American businessman active in the late 19th century. Hewitt worked in the coffee, sugar, and refrigeration industries, becoming president of the Manhattan Refrigerating Company. He is best remembered as coffee-broker and enthusiast, having written the first American book on this history of coffee, Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses. Hewitt retired from professional life in 1903 to peruse his interest in substantial collection of Lincolniana.
The first American map about Coffee!
A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or May be Produced and Where it is also used together with The Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe.
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A fascinating 1872 thematic map of the world by Robert Hewitt detailing the global production and traffic in coffee - considered the first American map related to coffee - accompanied by a first edition of Hewitt's important book on the subject. Presented on Mercator's projection, the map dually identifies coffee production and consumption, and telegraph lines. A series of color codes referenced in the lower right break down the region according to the ability to grow and use coffee, and its rate of consumption, with places like Rio de Janeiro, Colombo (Sri Lanka), and Sumatra as centers of both production and consumption; places of increasing consumption, like Melbourne (Australia), the United States; places of limited consumption (mostly Scandinavian countries); and everything in between. (more details)