John Pinkerton - Later Life

Later Life

About 1818 he left London for Paris, where he made his headquarters until his death on the 10th of March 1826. He spent his later years impoverished . His remaining publications were the Recollections of Paris in the years 1802-5 (1806); a very useful General Collection of Voyages and Travels (1808-1814); a New Modern Atlas (1808-1819); and his Petralogy (1811).

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Media related to Maps by John Pinkerton at Wikimedia Commons

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