Original antique map of the Arctic published by Archibald Fullarton & Co., a prominent 19th-century Glasgow publisher known for detailed atlases, especially their beautifully engraved maps of the "Arctic Regions" showing explorations like the North-West Passage from around the 1850s-1870s.
It depicts the North Polar Regions, North-West Passage, and related explorations and it has a highly decorative style, beautifully engraved, with some original colour, showing details of discoveries.
Archibald Fullarton and Co. was a prominent publisher in Glasgow in the 1800s, and maintained a prodigious output of books, atlases and maps. The company produced the last maps to boast decorative vignettes, often done by George Heriot Swanston, the Scottish cartographer and engraver. Fullarton was in partnership with John Blackie in Glasgow until 1831, when the stock, plant and agencies were equally shared out.
Fullarton's Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales, was a set of finely engraved maps of the counties, recording the changes brought about by the Great Reform Bill, which was the basis of Britain's modern parliamentary constituencies, and went through a large numbers of editions. Some maps were engraved by Robert Scott, who made use of vignette views to decorate the map border. Another monumental work by the firm was the Royal Illustrated Atlas.
Fullarton was also responsible for Rev.J. M. Wilson'sImperial Gazetteer of Scotland, its companion volumeImperial Gazetteer of England and WalesandBartholomew'sImperial Map.[4]
Another major work was A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, edited by George Godfrey Cunningham, who was a partner at Fullarton, and published in 1856. This provided a concise description of towns, cities, provinces and countries around the world, all beyond the British Isles.
