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• Title:North America / drawn and engraved by J. Dower, Pentonville, London.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dower, John, active 1838-1846?, engraver.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Orr and Smith (Firm)
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Published by Orr and Smith, Paternaster Row, 1836.
  
• In: London : J. Dower, 1836 No. CXL., page 37.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3300 1836 .N67
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:North America--Maps.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:38,016,000 ; (E 170°--W 10°/N 80°--N 7°).
  1 map : hand colored ; 26 x 21 cm. .
  
• Summary:Hand-coloured copper plate engraving of North America. Shows Russian Alaska and Caribbean area as well as British, American, French, and Mexican territories and areas of influence. Western territory covers the Southern half of what is now British Columbia.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_276
  
• Notes:Relief shown by hachures.
  Map probably from: Dower, John. A new general atlas of modern geography: comprised in fifty maps. London: Orr & Smith, 1836.
  Lower margin at centre: "London. Published by Orr and Smith, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row." At lower right: "Drawn & Engraved by J. Dower, Pentonville London." & [page] 37.
  Greenwich meridian.