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Pub Year | Map Maker | Pub Place | Map Title | Map Price (USD) | Picture | 1815 | Pinkerton, John | London | New Granada | $200 | Picture |
An engraved map with hand colored wash. Size: 27 1/4 inches X 19 1/2 inches at the neat line. Map Type: Atlas This is a good copy. some margin rips, not affecting image. Stains in lower right of image. Taken from A modern atlas, from the latest and best authorities, exhibiting the various divisions of the world, with its chief empires, kingdoms and states, in sixty maps, carefully reduced from the largest and most authentic sources. Directed and superintended by John Pinkerton, author of Modern geography, &c.; This was one of the best English atlases of the period which appeared in parts from 1809-14, and as a whole in 1815. Pinkerton�s maps are highly regarded for their detail, size and colour. References: Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Volume 3 Page 436, Pinkerton, John, Scott, Valerie, Map Collector Publications, Tring, Hertz, England, 1999
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