cover image: Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Kirkwood's General Atlas ... Constructed from the best Authorities extant. Published as the Act directs by Robt. Kirkwood, Engraver, Edinburgh, John Smith & Son, Booksellers, Glasgow, & Wm. Faden, London. 1817. (title page) R. Kirkwood Script. & Sculpt.

Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Kirkwood's General Atlas ... Constructed from the best Authorities extant. Published as the Act directs by Robt. Kirkwood, Engraver, Edinburgh, John Smith & Son, Booksellers, Glasgow, & Wm. Faden, London. 1817. (title page) R. Kirkwood Script. & Sculpt.

1817

Rare atlas, also pub. by Wm. Faden & John Smith. Kirkwood engraved some of the maps for Thomson's General Atlas (Edinburgh, 1817), but we can find no record of this atlas in Phillips, Tooley, Jolly (1983-92) or anywhere else - except for a record of a sale in the Map Collector #42. Kirkwood used A. Arrowsmith's maps from Pinkerton's Geography as a base, and enlarged and filled in detail where he could. The result is striking: these maps are more than twice the size of Arrowsmith's and often carry considerably more detail. Outline color. None found; not in Phillips.

Authors

Kirkwood, Robert, Robt. Kirkwood

Collection
David Rumsey Map Collection
Format
Full Image Download in MrSID Format 30 36
Place Discussed
South Africa Cape of Good Hope
Provider
David Rumsey
Published in
South Africa
Reference
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~241445~5512604; https://media.davidrumsey.com/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/D5005/2677043.jpg; 2677.043
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/d4544b9bfa14f059ad4549d08efe667d