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Author: Arrowsmith, Aaron

Date: 1802

Short Title: United States 1.

Publisher: London: A. Arrowsmith

Type: Atlas Map ; View

Obj Height cm: 63

Obj Width cm: 71

Scale 1: 1,750,000

Note: "Engraved map. Outline hand col. Relief shown by pictorially and by hachures. Sheet 1 of 4. Shows settlements, roads with distances, Indian tribes, rivers, etc. Title in cartouche with large illustration of ""Falls of Niagara"" that includes text."

Reference: Phillips. Maps of America, p. 874; Karpinski, CXVa; Checklist of printed maps of the Middle West, 1-0728; Lowery, WL 740. Cf Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of America, p. 318 (1796 ed.)

Country: United States

Region: Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)

Subject: Indians

Full Title: A map of the United States of North America. Drawn from a number of critical researches by A. Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. (Sheet 1). No. 10 Soho Square. London, Published as the Act directs by A. Arrowsmith, no. 10 Soho Square -- Jan. 1st, 1796, additions to 1802.

List No: 5699.005

Page No: IV

Series No: 8

Publication Author: Arrowsmith, Aaron; Thompson, George Alexander; Alcedo, Antonio de, 1735-1812

Pub Date: 1819

Pub Title: Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or dictionary of America & West Indies; collated with all the most recent authorities, and composed chiefly from scarce and original documents, for that work, by A. Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. London: Printed by George Smeeton, Great Saint Martin's Lane, Charing Cross. 1819.

Pub Reference: Cf. Phillips, 1174 (1816-(1817) ed.); NMM, 292 (1816 ed.); Phillips. Maps of America, p. 112 (1816 ed.)

Pub Note: See note field above.

Pub List No: 5699.000

Pub Type: Regional Atlas

Pub Maps: 19

Pub Height cm: 67

Pub Width cm: 55

Image No: 5699005

Institution: Rumsey Collection

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