Arrowsmith spent the years after his uncle's death preparing maps for his iconic
London Atlas of Universal Geography, the first edition of which was published in 1834 with 50 maps. He likely planned to publish it in 1832, many of the maps within it have an 1832 publication year (subsequent editions have several maps within them that have earlier publication years than that of the atlas itself; Arrowsmith did not change the dates on the maps unless and until he updated them). He added and removed maps to the subsequent editions until there were 72 plates in one late edition. The atlas continued to be published after his death, the rights to publish the maps being acquired by
Edward Stanford in 1874.
First edition (1834) of the London Atlas of Universal Geography (50 maps) The 40 maps include the following (not a complete list; these maps were found in the
David Rumsey map collection as included in Arrowsmith's 1838 Atlas. The Rumsey collection has digitized the maps in the 1838 and 1844 edition of the Atlas. Other editions of the atlas were published in 1834, 1835, 1839, 1840, 1842, 1859 and 1861.) : • Orbis Veteribus Notus (Europe/Asia/Africa) • World, Mercators projection • Europe • England • Ireland • Sweden & Norway • Denmark (with Iceland) • Belgium & Holland • Western Germany • Russia & Poland • Austrian Empire • Switzerland & the Passes of the Alps • South Italy • Turkey in Europe • Greece & the Ionian Islands • Spain & Portugal • Nubia, Abyssinia • Egypt • Asia • Turkey in Asia • India • Burmah, Siam, Cochin China • China • North Asia • Asiatic Archipelago • Pacific Ocean • Mexico • West Indies & • Brazil • British North America
Second edition (1835) of the London Atlas of Universal Geography (50 maps) In addition to the maps published in 1832 in the above list, the 1835 atlas included the following (not a complete list): Map with 1833 date: • Discoveries in Western Australia 1834 Maps • Inland navigation, rail roads, geology, minerals of England & Wales • Scotland • France • Prussia & Poland • North Italy, Alps, Apennines • Africa • Northwest Africa • Central Asia • Map of the discoveries in Australia • Van Diemens Land • United States • South America • Columbia • Peru & Bolivia • United Provinces of La Plata,
Banda Oriental, Chile
Third edition (1838) of the London Atlas of Universal Geography (50-54 maps) The first 1838 edition of the
Atlas has the same maps as the 1835 edition, except for these maps that had been updated: • America (1835) • Cape of Good Hope (1835) • Map of British North America (1837) • Upper Canada (1837) • Lower Canada (1837) Later 1838 editions of the atlas than the one in the Rumsey collection replaced the following maps: • Discoveries in Western Australia • Discoveries in Australia with • The Colony of Western Australia • The south eastern portion of Australia and added the following maps: • 1856: Vancouver Island • 1857: South Africa - Showing the Routes of the Rev'd Dr. Livingstone between the years 1849 & 1857 • 1865: South Eastern Africa - Map of the River Shire, the Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa, the Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi, & Rovuma ==References==