East India Islands. By Sidney Hall. London, published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row, Decr. 1828.

Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com. This image //www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search?q=list_no=%224224.034%22 4224.034 is a part of image group 4224.000. Engraved map. Boundaries hand col. Relief shown by hachures. Also numbered XXXIII. Unusual presentation in two large elephant folio volumes with the maps unfolded. Covers are three quarter leather, marbled paper covered boards with "Hall's Atlas Part 1" and "Part 2" respectively, stamped in gilt on the front and spine. Wheat mentions the United States, Mexico and Guatimala, and British North America maps: he declares them up to date, making good use of the Lewis and Clark and Long maps. Interestingly for a British cartographer, Hall shows Maine and Oregon with the most ambitious U.S. claims as to territory. Graphically, these maps are very striking and beautiful; with outline color. Hall did a revised edition in the 1850-57 period (Phillips 821). The Australia maps are also mentioned by Tooley (Australia and Antarctica). In 1840 he collaborated with A. & C. Black to produce Black's General Atlas -- however, those maps are somewhat smaller and not as impressive as these maps. The maps are dated v

Date

1828

Mapmaker / publisher

Hall, S. (Sidney)

Place

the Malay Archipelago

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

atlas page

Original size

7,800 × 6,550 pixels

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