Title: A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America Inscribed by Permission to the Honorable Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudsons Bay in testimony of their liberal Communications to their most Obedient and very Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith Author: Arrowsmith, Aaron Place: London Publisher: Date: 1802 Description: Engraved map, colored in outline. 125x146 cm (49¼x57½"). Mounted on linen, dissected for folding; 34x28 cm (13½x11") when folded. The very rare and important fifth issue of Arrowsmith's map, the first 1802 issue, and of utmost significance for being the issue used in the planning of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and being carried along on the expedition. Its great rarity may be explained in part by the fact that it was in print for only one and one-half years before being supplanted by another issued dated 1802, though actually appearing in 1803. For a thorough and scholarly discussion of this, see Warren Heckrotte, “Aaron Arrowsmith’s Map of North America and the Lewis and Clark Expedition” in The Map Collector 39, Summer 1987. The large scale in which one inch equals 60 geometrical miles gave it a usefulness smaller maps would not have engendered. The evolving map now extends south to 29° and in the west only to Cook's Inlet. Cook's tracks are shown. The projection is no longer a simple conic; south of 40° the meridians begin to curve in. The map renders a depiction of the Rocky Mountains and the sources of the Missouri River, which must have originated with Indian sources, although there is no known record of this. There is a third 1802 issue dated 1802 which carries the Soho Square address and thus is 1808 or later, but before 1811 when this date was introduced. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America Inscribed by Permission to the Honorable Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudsons Bay In testimony of their liberal Communications to their most Obedient and very Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith | 24 Rathbone Place January 1st 1795 Additions to 1802 | [in lower margin:] Published 1 Jan. 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, 24 Rathbone Place, Additions to 1802. Provenance: J. Potter, 3/86 References: W-TW 231. Tooley, MCC, 68, #134. Heckrotte, TMC, 6/87 ( Rep ) where the best description of early issues of this map is given. Heckrotte, TMC, 52, 9/90, p47. Friis in Travellers on the Western Frontier ( Rep ). Allen, Passage through the Garden did not realize that this first 1802 issue existed. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate toning or slight soiling, starting to split at seams in a few places; very good. Item number: 267445
Title: A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America Inscribed by Permission to the Honorable Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudsons Bay in testimony of their liberal Communications to their most Obedient and very Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith Author: Arrowsmith, Aaron Place: London Publisher: Date: 1802 Description: Engraved map, colored in outline. 125x146 cm (49¼x57½"). Mounted on linen, dissected for folding; 34x28 cm (13½x11") when folded. The very rare and important fifth issue of Arrowsmith's map, the first 1802 issue, and of utmost significance for being the issue used in the planning of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and being carried along on the expedition. Its great rarity may be explained in part by the fact that it was in print for only one and one-half years before being supplanted by another issued dated 1802, though actually appearing in 1803. For a thorough and scholarly discussion of this, see Warren Heckrotte, “Aaron Arrowsmith’s Map of North America and the Lewis and Clark Expedition” in The Map Collector 39, Summer 1987. The large scale in which one inch equals 60 geometrical miles gave it a usefulness smaller maps would not have engendered. The evolving map now extends south to 29° and in the west only to Cook's Inlet. Cook's tracks are shown. The projection is no longer a simple conic; south of 40° the meridians begin to curve in. The map renders a depiction of the Rocky Mountains and the sources of the Missouri River, which must have originated with Indian sources, although there is no known record of this. There is a third 1802 issue dated 1802 which carries the Soho Square address and thus is 1808 or later, but before 1811 when this date was introduced. Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America Inscribed by Permission to the Honorable Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudsons Bay In testimony of their liberal Communications to their most Obedient and very Humble Servant A. Arrowsmith | 24 Rathbone Place January 1st 1795 Additions to 1802 | [in lower margin:] Published 1 Jan. 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, 24 Rathbone Place, Additions to 1802. Provenance: J. Potter, 3/86 References: W-TW 231. Tooley, MCC, 68, #134. Heckrotte, TMC, 6/87 ( Rep ) where the best description of early issues of this map is given. Heckrotte, TMC, 52, 9/90, p47. Friis in Travellers on the Western Frontier ( Rep ). Allen, Passage through the Garden did not realize that this first 1802 issue existed. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate toning or slight soiling, starting to split at seams in a few places; very good. Item number: 267445
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