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John Rapkin: Map of British America, 1851
John Rapkin: Map of British America, 1851
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  • Map: British America
  • Cartographer: John Rapkin
  • Illustrator: H. Warren
  • Publisher: John Tallis & Company
  • Published: London and New York, 1851
  • Size: 10 x 13 inches

    Extremely clean, authentic antique map of West Canada, c1851. Original outline color with hand colored bodies of water. Features six finely engraved vignettes drawn and engraved by H. Warren: Esquimaux, Seal, Montreal (scene) Whale Fishing, Polar Bears and two sailing ships (Fury & Hecla). Map depicts area from 60 degrees longitude in the east to 130 degrees in the west, and from 40 degrees latitude in the south to 80 degrees in the north. Shows as far northeast as Iceland; northwest as far as Bering Strait/Asia; southwest as far as San Francisco, and as far southeast as far as Philadelphia.

    John Rapkin (1815-1876) was a nineteenth century map maker and engraver, best known for his work on the Illustrated Atlas of the World 1849-53 for John Tallis and Co. noted for their beautifully decorative borders and later re-issued by the London Printing and Publishing Co. London and New York.

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