The Arctic Regions of North America

Description

Printed map. At head of title, "The Dispatch Atlas". "By Edwd. Weller, F.R.G.S." In lower margin, "Weekly Dispatch Atlas, 139 Fleet Street / E. Weller, Lithogr. / Engraved by Edwd. Weller, Duke Street, Bloomsbury." Includes inset, "Continuation of Smith's Sound to the northward on reduced scale." According to Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, "The Dispatch Atlas, 1863, [was] itself originally published in the Weekly Dispatch as a part work, 1856-1862, plates later used yet again by Bacon & Co." (vol. 1, p. 240). The map may have been originally published in Cassell's General Atlas (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [1860] or [1868]). McMaster has another copy; see RMC_107016. Acquired as part of the Hodsoll Collection.