Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Title:
A map of the United States of North America / drawn from a number of critical researches by A. Arrowsmith, geographer, No. 24 Rathbone Place.
Edition:
Additions to 1802.
Published / Created:
London : Published as the act directs by A. Arrowsmith, No. 24 Rathbone Place, Jan. 1st, 1796 [that is, 1802]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets : hand colored ; 123 x 141 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Maps/Atlases 1862 United States
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=15639295
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale approximately 1:1,750,000 -- (W 98°50ʹ--W 65°10ʹ/N 48°20ʹ--N 29°00ʹ).
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy from the collection of Ernest Augustus Cumberland.

Fourth issue with Arrowsmith address "24 Rathbone Place" and "Tennassee" added as a state and "Additions to 1802."

Relief shown pictorially.

In lower margins: London. Published as the act directs by A. Arrowsmith, Charles Street, Soho Square, Jan. 1st, 1796, Additions to 1802.

Includes "Boundaries Communicated by Geo. Chalmers Esq.r" and notes and illustration of and text about Niagara Falls.

Tooley, R.V. Mapping of America, p. 99
Subject Terms:
East (U.S.) -- Maps. | Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771–1851 -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Maps.