New General Atlas of Modern Geography

Texas and California within Mexico, New Holland, Van Diemen's Land and the Burman Empire: the world of the 1840s survives in...

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Texas and California within Mexico, New Holland, Van Diemen's Land and the Burman Empire: the world of the 1840s survives in the hand-coloured maps of the New General Atlas of Modern Geography, here in John Dower's 1845 edition for William S. Orr & Co. The atlas works through countries, empires and dependencies, with British county divisions beside the cantons of Switzerland and the territories of North America, and its United States is a land of states and vast western territories. World hemispheres, a Mercator map and a comparative plate of rivers and mountains complete the picture.

Texas and California within Mexico, New Holland, Van Diemen's Land and the Burman Empire: the world of the 1840s survives in the hand-coloured maps of the New General Atlas of Modern Geography, here in John Dower's 1845 edition for William S. Orr & Co. The atlas works through countries, empires and dependencies, with British county divisions beside the cantons of Switzerland and the territories of North America, and its United States is a land of states and vast western territories. World hemispheres, a Mercator map and a comparative plate of rivers and mountains complete the picture.