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| Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of North America and South America - Geographicus - AmericaNS-pinkerton-1818.jpg A rare and important 1818 map of the Western Hemisphere by John Pinkerton Depicts North America Central America and South America as well as parts of Polynesia Siberia Greenland Iceland Europe and Africa The routes of various important explores are noted including Cook Vancouver Perouse and the return route of the Resolution In North America thanks primarily to the work of Cook in the Pacific Northwest the coasts are rendered with considerable accuracy The interior of North America particularly the American West is still rather vague though much of the cartography is clearly derived from Humboldt's explorations Notes the apocryphal River Buenaventura as well as a conjectural placement of the western extreme of the Missouri River The United States still quite small does not yet include Florida Louisiana California or Texas South America exhibits its typical clear outline and speculative interior Pinkerton resurrects the idea of Lake Parima in Guyana - supposed site of El Dorado - which had all but disappeared from most other early 19th century He has however dropped the Apocryphal Laguna de Xarayes commonly located at the northern extremis of the Paraguay or Parma River However he does note several supposed gold mines deep in the Amazon which may or may not reflect indigenous legends of El Dorado Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton The map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 21 28 object history credit line accession number AmericaNS-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Old maps of Earth's hemispheres 1818 maps Maps of voyages Old maps of the Americas Maps in English | ||||
