Stanford Edward John Arrowsmith (5 results)

Original engraved map of the world (69.5 x 103.5 cm) with outline colour, dissected into 40 panels and laid onto linen, two panels with marbled endpapers, folding into original brown cloth slipcase with publisher's yellow title label to upper portion. The map recording steam routes including travel times and underwater telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower left quadrants. Generally an excellent, well preserved copy. Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith in 1874.

Original engraved map of the world (69.5 x 103.5 cm) with outline colour, dissected into 40 panels and laid onto linen, two panels with marbled endpapers, folding into original brown cloth slipcase with publisher's yellow title label to upper portion. The map recording steam routes including travel times and underwater telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower left quadrants. Some occasional light soiling, generally an excellent example. Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith in 1874.

No binding. Condition: Very good. London: Edward Stanford, 1881. Engraved case map of the world in 40 segments (26 ½ x 44 ¾ inches) mounted to original linen backing with promotional self-wrappers ("Stanford's Two-Shilling Series of Tourists Guides / New Maps and New Editions"), recording steam routes including travel times and underwater telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower left quadrants. Condition: very good with original color in outline; small creasing in lower right corner and some isolated foxing. Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith in 1874. Note some scattered annotations regarding the achievements of 19th century naval officers and explorers that Stanford added to the present map, including the mention of William Parry's (1790-1855) attempt on the North Pole from the northern shores of Spitsbergen in 1827 (recorded beyond the neatline of the present map).

Third edition, revised and enlarged. Elephant folio (555 x 381 mm); (vi)pp., 110 coloured maps, ninety-four double page, 29pp. index. Original quarter morocco with cloth boards. Slight wear to corners. Joints tender, though sound. Interior fine. Edward Stanford, London. The Stanford company reprinted their 'London Atlas of Universal Geography' in 1904, the title-page so dated, and continued to issue editions with the preliminaries unchanged, but individual maps revised and updated, noting these changes in a "secret" date code outside the lower border of the map. In this copy, the the latest printed date is 13408 (i.e. 13th April 1908) but the map of the Antarctic has been silently updated to 1909, inserting the route of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1909, which came within a hundred miles of the South Pole, before being forced to turn back, in early January 1909.

Stanford's map of the Arctic Lithograph and coloured, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original blue cloth slipcase, publisher's label pasted on, yellow advertisement for "Standford's Series of New Library Maps" at endpaper of cover and map when folded. The present map of the Arctic regions was first issued in 1818 by Aaron Arrowsmith, most likely in response to William Parry's discoveries in the region. Aaron Arrowsmith's son John would continue to update and reissue the map up until 1859 - no later editions are recorded, most probably due to the fact that in 1861 Arrowsmith went into semi-retirement. Following Arrowsmith's death, in 1874, Edward Stanford acquired the plate and continued to issue the map until the 1930s. The present example dates from 1875, and represents the earliest issue of the map under Stanford's name. The map depicts all the voyages of discovery in the Arctic, from John Cabot's (1497), and Hudson (1607), to the Austro-Hungarian voyage of Weyprecht and Payer (1872-1874). All the voyages are marked with a name and date in red, although the only track highlighted is that of John Franklin. Other additions made by Stanford include the marking of the full extent of the polar ice sheet, and pack ice, together with a dotted line denoting the "Southern limit of Drift Ice or Icebergs". Edward Stanford (1827-1904) was a well known British mapmaker, publisher and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. As a result of his involvement in the Society as well as the India Office he gained a reputation as a publisher of explorers. After starting his own business Stanford became known for his "library maps", particularly those of Africa and Asia. Aside of launching his own maps, he enlargened his stock by buying plates of other publishers. In 1874 he did, for example, acquire the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith, heir of the Arrowsmith family firm. After his death in 1904 the business was continued by his son Edward Jr. Verner & Stubbs, The Northpart of America, p.162.