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English: Mexico
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English: John Arrowsmith's 1832 map of Mexico was a compilation of the latest and best sources available in London and has been called "…arguably the best map of the country published prior to the 1850s."[1] Not surprisingly, John used his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith's 1810 Map of Mexico (which had relied heavily upon Alexander von Humboldt's map of New Spain published in his Atlas Geographique et Physique de la Nouvelle Espagne in 1809 as well as Royal Navy coastal charts) as the base map. However, John's map included a number of the country's important roads for the first time on a printed map, employing double lines to refer to primary roads, single lines for secondary roads, and dotted lines for paths. Much of the information for the roads and trails came from British travelers in Mexico such as diplomat Henry George Ward (1797-1860) and Royal Navy officers R. W. H. Hardy (ca. 1790-1871) and Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856).

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  1. Allen, David Y. (April 2018). "Emerging from Humboldt's Shadow: British Travelers and John Arrowsmith's Maps of Mexico, 1822-1844". Terrae Incognitae 50 (1).
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John Arrowsmith  (1790–1873)  wikidata:Q5560185
 
John Arrowsmith
Description British cartographer
Date of birth/death 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1873 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Winston Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5560185
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections
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Map location Mexico
Scale 1:6,650,000
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London Atlas of Universal Geography
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John Arrowsmith  (1790–1873)  wikidata:Q5560185
 
John Arrowsmith
Description British cartographer
Date of birth/death 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1873 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Winston Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5560185
Place of publication London
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John Arrowsmith  (1790–1873)  wikidata:Q5560185
 
John Arrowsmith
Description British cartographer
Date of birth/death 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1873 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Winston Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q5560185
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739
Dimensions height: 49 cm (19.2 in); width: 62 cm (24.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,49U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,62U174728
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Allen, David Y. (April 2018). "Emerging from Humboldt's Shadow: British Travelers and John Arrowsmith's Maps of Mexico, 1822-1844". Terrae Incognitae 50 (1).

Worms, Laurence; Ashley Baynton-Williams (2011) British Map Engravers: A Dictionary of Engravers, Lithographers and their Principal Employers to 1850, London: Rare Book Society, pp. 25−29

Huseman, Ben W. (2018) Paths to Highways: Routes of Exploration, Commerce, and Settlement, Arlington: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, no. 27 , p. 20


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