Title: Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion of Canada... Drawn, Compiled and Edited by H.F. Walling, C.E. Late Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette College, Penn... Author: Walling, Henry F. Place: Montreal, Toronto & London Publisher: Published by George N. Tackabury Date: 1875 Description: 264 pp. With 51 hand-colored lithographed maps, some double-page, included in the pagination. (folio) 44.2x34 cm (17½x13¼"), original gilt-lettered cloth backed with leather. One of the earliest commercially produced atlases of Canada, with a number of notable maps, including a climatology map by Blodgett, geological map by Logan, a map of British Columbia reduced from Trutch's map, several city maps, and a railroad map. There are 50 pages of advertisements of "patrons" of the atlas. being a useful business directory. Provenance: Chapel Hill Books, 7/86 References: P-LG 10357 which cites 3 "noteworthy" maps: geological, climatology, railroad. Lot Amendments Condition: Some scuffing to spine, wear to extremities; else very good. Item number: 271854
Title: Tackabury's Atlas of the Dominion of Canada... Drawn, Compiled and Edited by H.F. Walling, C.E. Late Professor of Civil Engineering in Lafayette College, Penn... Author: Walling, Henry F. Place: Montreal, Toronto & London Publisher: Published by George N. Tackabury Date: 1875 Description: 264 pp. With 51 hand-colored lithographed maps, some double-page, included in the pagination. (folio) 44.2x34 cm (17½x13¼"), original gilt-lettered cloth backed with leather. One of the earliest commercially produced atlases of Canada, with a number of notable maps, including a climatology map by Blodgett, geological map by Logan, a map of British Columbia reduced from Trutch's map, several city maps, and a railroad map. There are 50 pages of advertisements of "patrons" of the atlas. being a useful business directory. Provenance: Chapel Hill Books, 7/86 References: P-LG 10357 which cites 3 "noteworthy" maps: geological, climatology, railroad. Lot Amendments Condition: Some scuffing to spine, wear to extremities; else very good. Item number: 271854
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