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Code: 53030
Author: Dower, John
Publisher: Orr and Co Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
Date published: 1835 circa
Steel engraving, original outline hand colouring. Overall size, hinged in off white fully conservation grade mount and back with decor ative v groove : 36cms x 42.6cms. Image size : 205mm.x 269mm. Centrefold as published. At bottom of map is a highly decorative chain of mountains, each named and with their heights marked. Key of Statistical divisions. Colour key to Eastern States or New England. Middle States.Southern States. Western States. Unorganised States: Minni Sota, Nebraka, Western Territories, Texas. Settlements marked according to their population. Very good condition apart from one very faint mark above the second 'A' in Atlantic. John Crane Dower (1791? - 1847) engraver, draughtsman, publisher and printer. Engraved maps for the Greenwood brothers for Thomas Moule, Henry Teesdale and George Bradshaw. He left the business to his sons, John James Dower and Frederick James Dower and the former was also prolific in map production. (British Map Engravers Worms and Baynton-Williams)