COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893
Date:
1871
Short Title:
United States
Publisher:
A. Fullarton
Publisher Location:
London & Edinburgh
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
29
Obj Width cm:
41
Scale 1:
5,000,000
Note:
Double page engraved hand colored map. Shows administrative divisions, major cities, capitals, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. In upper right: 11. Prime meridian is Greenwich.
World Area:
North America
Country:
United States
Full Title:
United States. By John Bartholomew, F.R.G.S. Engraved and printed in colours by J. Batholomew. A. Fullarton & Co., London & Edinburgh. (to accompany) A descriptive hand atlas of the world. Part 6.
List No:
11730.060
Page No:
22 map
Series No:
60
Publication Author:
Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893
Pub Date:
1871
Pub Title:
A descriptive hand atlas of the world. By J. Bartholomew, F.R.G.S. Dedicated by permission to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, London, and Dublin. 1871.
Pub Note:
Bartholomew, Fullarton's hand atlas of the world. Published by A. Fullarton & Company in fifteen monthly parts at two Shillings each. Part 14 includes a comprehensive General Index and abbreviations that continues to Part 15. Title from part 15, with pictorial half title page, Continuation of General Index, preface, contents, and introduction. Back covers include text, illustrations and publisher's advertisement. A separate supplementary material includes: Prospectus, list of maps, and 6 pages of recommendation to the publishers from Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Note in Part 14 indicates "The Publishers regret the delay in the issue of the two concluding parts containing General Index, Introduction, &c. ... 12th. April 1871." Maps are numbered according to their relative importance regarded from a British point of view. Each part of atlas has ornate front cover, portrait of Queen Victoria, with title printed in black and some with illustrated back cover. The first part has colored front cover. Each part includes descriptive text, index, statistical tables, and some with cross sections. Atlas includes 27 double-page engraved colored maps, some in outline, including maps of the World, America, Africa, Australia, European and Asian countries. Maps showing political and administrative divisions, major cities, towns, most recent discoveries, European colonies and settlements and territorial changes in Europe and the world. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Greenwich. John Bartholomew, Jr., 1831 – 1893, was a Scottish cartographer. His father John Bartholomew Senior,1805-1861, started a cartographical establishment in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1856 John, Jr. took up the management of his father's firm John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. Bartholomew is best known for the development of color contouring to represent altitudes on a graduated color scale, which eventually became standard cartographical practice.
Pub List No:
11730.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
27
Pub Height cm:
35
Pub Width cm:
25
Image No:
11730060.jp2
Authors:
Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893
Link To Source
United States
