COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Index Map. Explanation of Signs Used In The Atlas.
Obj Height cm:
35
Obj Width cm:
41
Scale 1:
17,233,920
Note:
The index map is broken into 24 outline color sections and numbered. A note is included explaining the symbols on the subsequent map.
Reference:
P3670; NMM 486.
Full Title:
Index Map. Explanation of Signs Used In The Atlas. Entered in Sta. Hall. London ... & according to an act of Congress ... 1857, by H.D. Rogers ... Massachusetts. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, Edinburgh, W. & A.K. Johnston. Engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh.
List No:
3825.002
Page No:
1
Series No:
5
Pub Date:
1857
Pub Title:
Atlas Of The United States Of North America, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, And Jamaica. On A Uniform Scale. From The Most Recent State Documents, Marine Surveys, And Unpublished Materials. With Plans Of The Principal Cities And Sea-Ports, And An Introductory Essay On The Physical Geography, Products, And Resources Of North America. By Professor Henry Darwin Rogers, Of Boston, U.S., And A. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., Geographer To The Queen. London: Edward Stanford, 6, Charing Cross, S.W. [The Authors Reserve The Right Of Translation.] (on verso) Entered at Stationers' Hall, London ... 1857 by H.D. Rogers ... Massachusetts.
Pub Reference:
P3670; NMM 486.
Pub Note:
Unusual collaboration between a Scot (Johnston), an American (Rogers), and an Englishman (Stanford). The maps are all on a scale of 54.5 miles to one inch, and are very well executed. They are derived from the large Map of The United States, British & Central America, by Rogers and Johnston, 1857. The western U.S. maps show the routes of the proposed Pacific Railroad. Rogers probably wrote the descriptive text. Johnston engraved and drew the maps - these maps are perhaps the best examples of Scottish highly detailed mapmaking applied to the western territories and states, in the pre civil war period. The only other example is Black's Atlas of North America, published in 1856, but not quite as detailed in the western states and territories, although it is just as good and maybe better in the eastern areas (these two atlas had to be competitive, with their issue within one year of each other). In 1873, J. David Williams issued the Jones and Hamilton "People's Pictorial Atlas" which uses most of these maps, updated. Then in 1875 the same maps appear in the Hardesty issue of the Jones and Hamilton "Historical Atlas of the World Illustrated." (see our copies). With full and outline color. Bound in half leather dark red cloth covered boards with "Atlas Of The United States, British & Central America: By Prof. Rogers & A. Keith Johnston."
Pub List No:
3825.000
Pub Maps:
29
Pub Height cm:
38
Pub Width cm:
26
Image No:
3825002
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 1998
Publisher Location:
London
Publisher:
Edward Stanford
Type:
Atlas Map
World Area:
America
World Area:
Central America
Engraver or Printer:
Johnston, W. & A.K.
Publication Author:
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871
Publication Author:
Rogers, Henry Darwin
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Author:
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871
Author:
Rogers, Henry Darwin
Date:
1857
Index Map. Explanation of Signs Used In The Atlas.
