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John Arrowsmith (cartographer)

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200:, the first edition of which was published in 1834 with 50 maps. He likely planned to publish it in 1832, many of the maps within it have an 1832 publication year (subsequent editions have several maps within them that have earlier publication years than that of the atlas itself; Arrowsmith did not change the dates on the maps unless and until he updated them). He added and removed maps to the subsequent editions until there were 72 plates in one late edition. The atlas continued to be published after his death, the rights to publish the maps being acquired by 412: 544: 217: 33: 152:
Aaron's sons Aaron Jr. and Samuel were substantially younger than John but inherited their father's business when they were young men (21 and 18 respectively) when Aaron Sr. died in 1823. John took the £200 left to him by his uncle and began working on his own. Aaron Jr and Samuel did not have the
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after Arrowsmith, who later produced the maps for the published journals of Grey's two Western Australian expeditions. In 1863 he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, which was what the Geographical Society of London was known as after gaining the patronage of
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Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, etc.
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map collection as included in Arrowsmith's 1838 Atlas. The Rumsey collection has digitized the maps in the 1838 and 1844 edition of the Atlas. Other editions of the atlas were published in 1834, 1835, 1839, 1840, 1842, 1859 and 1861.) :
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Herbert, Francis (1989). "The 'London Atlas of Universal Geography' from John Arrowsmith to Edward Stanford: Origin, Development and Dissolution of a British World Atlas from the 1830s to the 1930s".
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in 1830. Aaron Jr. left the family firm in 1832, and upon the death of Samuel in 1839, John purchased the assets and merged them into his own business.
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skills of their father and cousin and their contributions to cartography were minimal. Regardless, the three Arrowsmiths were founding members of the
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1865: South Eastern Africa - Map of the River Shire, the Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa, the Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi, & Rovuma
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In addition to the maps published in 1832 in the above list, the 1835 atlas included the following (not a complete list):
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1857: South Africa - Showing the Routes of the Rev'd Dr. Livingstone between the years 1849 & 1857
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Later 1838 editions of the atlas than the one in the Rumsey collection replaced the following maps:
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The 40 maps include the following (not a complete list; these maps were found in the
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Sketch of the Acquisitions of Russia since the Accession of Peter 1st. to the Throne
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has the same maps as the 1835 edition, except for these maps that had been updated:
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Arrowsmith spent the years after his uncle's death preparing maps for his iconic
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A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of North America
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In 1810 he joined his uncle in the cartography business. They built on Aaron's
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Inland navigation, rail roads, geology, minerals of England & Wales
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1811 version which was heavily based on information provided by the
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Integrated Land Management Bureau, Government of British Columbia.
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Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
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Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government
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in 1821. Their contributions to Canadian cartography led to
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1848: Southern Tip of Vancouver Island and Oregon Territory
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Western townships of Lower Canada with inset of Quebec
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Western townships of Lower Canada with inset of Quebec
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Winston, County Durham
Hereford Square
South Kensington
Cartographer
Winston, County Durham
England
Aaron Arrowsmith
cartographer
Hudson's Bay Company
Mount Arrowsmith
Port Alberni
Vancouver Island
British Columbia
Geographical Society of London
Arrowsmith River
Western Australia
George Grey
King William IV
Hereford Square
South Kensington
Edward Stanford

David Rumsey
Banda Oriental


"Before Lewis & Clark - Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)"
"ARROWSMITH -North America"
Integrated Land Management Bureau, Government of British Columbia.

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