COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Weekly Dispatch
Author:
Dower, John, active 1838-1846?
Date:
1863
Short Title:
Italy : General map, including Switzerland, Tyrol, and the Alps.
Publisher:
Weekly Dispatch
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
42
Obj Width cm:
30
Scale 1:
3,500,000
Note:
Map of Italy, including Switzerland, Tyrol, and the Alps. Shows political boundaries, cities, fortresses, railways, roads, canals, topography, bodies of water, drainage, islands, steamboat routes and distances. Relief shown with hachures. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and two bar scales given in English and Italian miles. Hand-colored lithograph. Map is 42 x 30 cm, on sheet 48 x 33 cm. Plate number handwritten in ink at upper right corner of sheet; "March 14/58" in pencil at bottom of sheet. Appears in Vol. II : Foreign.
Country:
Italy
Country:
Switzerland
Region:
Tyrolian Alps
Region:
Alps
Full Title:
Italy : General map, including Switzerland, Tyrol, and the Alps / by J. Dower, F. R. G. S. ; drawn & engraved by John Dower, Pentonville Road, London ; Day & Son Lithrs. to The Queen.
List No:
14360.168
Page No:
48
Series No:
168
Engraver or Printer:
Dower, John, active 1838-1846?
Engraver or Printer:
Day & Son
Publication Author:
Weekly Dispatch
Pub Date:
1863
Pub Title:
The dispatch atlas. London : published at the "Weekly Dispatch" Office, 139, Fleet Street, London, and sold by all booksellers and news agents. 1863.
Pub Note:
The dispatch atlas, in two volumes: Vol. I : British and .Vol. II : Foreign. Published by the Weekly Dispatch, London, 1863. Includes a preface, directions for binding and a table of contents for both volumes, which lists the maps in order of appearance, with plate numbers handwritten beside map titles. Preface begins: The subscribers to the Weekly Dispatch have in this collection the most full and accurate survey of the world's surface that has yet been presented to the public in any single series. Both volumes bound in board covered in dark green linen, with spine and corners in calf. Gilded spine titles, as well as ornamentation on spines and front and back covers. With marbled end papers and gilded page edges. Collation: Volume I: [6] pages, 129 leaves of plates (some double); Volume II: 147 leaves of plates (some double). The work’s total 276 plates contain 300 maps. Each plate number handwritten in ink above map. First volume focuses on the British Isles, especially England. Second volume covers the larger globe, featuring Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic. Maps show political boundaries, cities, fortresses, railways, roads, bridges, canals, ocean routes, topography, glaciers, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, shoals, islands and water depths. Maps of the Americas include territories of indigenous peoples. Maps of the United States south delineate between Federal, Border and Confederate States. Some maps feature English translations of terms from other languages that describe geographic features, including the “Explanation of Arabic words" - such as nahr for river - in the Map of Syria. Maps created by Edward Weller, J. W. Lowry, B. R. Davies, John Dower and T. Ettling; printed by Edward Weller and Day & Son, Lithographers to The Queen.
Pub List No:
14360.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
300
Pub Height cm:
50
Pub Width cm:
38
Image No:
14360168.jp2
Authors:
Weekly Dispatch; Dower, John, active 1838-1846?
