COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
British America.
Obj Height cm:
44
Obj Width cm:
56
Scale 1:
12,000,000
Note:
Countries outlined in color. Land tinted. Insets of Enlarged Chart of Wellington Channel &c., and Beechy Island, Site of Sir J. Franklin's Winter Quarters, 1845-1846.
Reference:
P1232,1385; NMM 478.
Full Title:
British America. Containing all the Discoveries of the Arctic Seas up to 1856. Published by A. & C. Black. Edinburgh. Printed in Colours by Schenck & Macfariane. Edinburgh. Drawn & Engraved by J. Bartholomew, Edinburgh.
List No:
0073.002
Page No:
2
Series No:
9
Pub Date:
1854
Pub Title:
Black's Atlas Of North America. A Series Of Twenty Maps Constructed And Engraved By John Bartholomew. With Introductory Letter-Press And A Complete Index. Edinburgh: Adam And Charles Black. MDCCCLVI.
Pub Reference:
P1232,1385; NMM 478.
Pub Note:
All maps by Bartholomew. First use of printed color by Black and Bartholomew. This is a fine atlas, scarce, and almost as good as Rogers and Johnston's Atlas of the United States, 1857 (see our #3825). Bound in dark green cloth covered boards with "Black's Atlas Of North Ame(rica)" on the spine in gilt (the "rica" in parentheses is missing from the original spine).
Pub List No:
0073.000
Pub Maps:
20
Pub Height cm:
46
Pub Width cm:
35
Image No:
0073002
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2009
Publisher Location:
Edinburgh
Publisher:
A. & C. Black
Type:
Atlas Map
Country:
Canada
Engraver or Printer:
Bartholomew, John
Publication Author:
Bartholomew, John
Publication Author:
Black, Adam & Charles
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Author:
Bartholomew, John
Author:
Black, Adam & Charles
Date:
1856
British America.
