1828-1900.
Kartograf. 1863-1896 anställd vid ekonomiska kartverket, en av sin tids främsta svenska kartografer. Bland hans många utgivna kartor, av vilka några utgått i flera upplagor, märkas, jämte sockenkartor, 'Ankologisk och fysisk karta öfver Sverige' med geografi (1857), 'Karta öfver Carlstads län', (1862), 'Karta öfver Mälaren och dess omgifningar' (1868), 'Ny och fullständig jernvägs-, post-, telegraf- och reskarta öfver Sverige' (samma år), 'Karta öfver Stockholm' (1870), 'Kultur- och reskarta öfver Sverige' (1876) och 'Karta öfver Wester Norrlands län' (1889).
Bland arbeten.
Ankologisk och fysisk karta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Carlstads län.
Karta öfver Mälaren och dess omgifningar.
Ny och fullständig jernvägs-, post-, telegraf- och reskarta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Stockholm.
Kultur- och reskarta öfver Sverige.
Karta öfver Wester Norrlands län.
Sign. ABC Sv. Uppsl.b. 2:a uppl. Bd 6 1948.
1750-1823.
He was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Gary, the engraver and led for some years the office of hydrographer to the king. In January 1790 he made himself famous by his large chart of the world on Mercator projection. Four years later he published another large map of the world on the globular projection, with a companion volume of explanation. The maps of North America (1796) and Scotland (1807) are the most celebrated of his many later productions. He left two sons, Aaron and Samuel, the elder of whom was the compiler of the Eton Comparative Atlas, of a Biblical atlas, and of various manuals of geography.
The business was thus carried on in company with John Arrowsmith (1790-1873), nephew of the elder Aaron. In 1821, they published a more complete North American map from a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaro...
Bland arbeten.
First map of North America, 1790
A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, January 1, 1795 (Other editions 1801, 1802, 1804 and 1816 featuring roads)
Chart of the South Pacific, 1798
A New Map of Africa, 1802
Map of Countries Round the North Pole, 1818
Ogden map (North America), 1821 (2nd edition : 1834)
Cartographer Gaudersleben.
Bland arbeten.
Thuringia 24 sh. 1625, used Blaeu 1634.
Tooley.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Fjellbacka. - Stockholm 1891.
