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• Title:British America / the map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin ; the illustrations by H. Warren & engraved by R. Wallis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rapkin, John, active 1845-1851, cartographer, engraver
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Warren, H, illustrator.
  Wallis, Robert, 1794-1878, engraver.
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : John Tallis and Company, [1851].
  
• In: Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical. London, New York : John Tallis and Company.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3400 1851 .R36
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Canada--Maps.
  Alaska--Maps.
  
• Description:Scale approximately: 1:2,597,760.
  1 map : hand colored, illustrations ; 22 x 30 cm.
  
• Summary:Engraved print with several illustrations, decorative borders, hand-coloured oulining of borders (Canada in red, Greenland in orange, and Alaska and Iceland in yellow). Alaska is noted as still belonging to Russia. The West Coast borders are still undefined, referred to as Oregon, Columbia, etc.. Includes HBC Districts, forts & posts, First Nations territories, and boundaries.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_212
  
• Notes:Relief shown in hachures.
  Map possibly removed from the 1851 edition of: Martin, Robert Montgomery. Ed. Tallis's Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial, and Statistical. London, New York: John Tallis and Company, plate 65.
  Insets (vignettes): Esquimaux; Fury and Hecla; Polar Bears; Whale Fishing; Seal; Boston.