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.
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. All maps by Bartholomew. First use of printed color by Black and Bartholomew. This is a fine atlas, scarce, and almost as go...
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| Summary: | 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. 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). P1232,1385; NMM 478. |
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