The Arctic Regions of North America

Description

Printed map. "By Edwd. Weller, F.R.G.S." "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." At head of title, there is an illustration which includes the Northern Hemisphere with a banner which reads, "The Dispatch Atlas". 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_107349. Donated by Dr. Karl Freeman, Hamilton, March 1995.