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COLTON, G.W.

New Guide Map of the United States & Canada. With Railroads, Counties Etc.

New York: Colton, & Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1861. Period color, 30¼ x 34¾ inches, folding into gilt-stamped dark brown cloth covers. Fine condition.

Not in Rumsey

#3120$1,500.00
 
 
COLTON, J. H. (1800-1893)

Map of the United States of America, the British provinces, Mexico, the West Indies and Central America, with part of New Granada and Venezuela

New York: J. H. Colton & Co., 1851. Large folding pocket map engraved by John M. Atwood, printed on two sheets joined, full contemporary hand-colouring. Inset maps of the Atlantic Ocean and the Isthmus of Panama. Grape leaf border, interspersed with inset views designed and engraved by W.S. Barnard. Folds into publisher's blindstamped calf covers, upper cover titled in gilt, publisher's printed ad on the front pastedown. Sheet size: 36 x 41 3/4 inches.

Colton's rare two-sheet map of the United States, here in beautiful condition in pocket map form: one of the earliest maps of the U.S. to depict and name Utah and New Mexico territories.

This large map is often confused with another Colton map of similar title, which is smaller and does not depict the entire continental U.S., as here. The map, easily identified by its wonderful grape leaf border with insets of American monuments, buildings and fanciful scenes, was first published in 1849. That year, Colton published three maps of the U.S.: a standard 1-sheet map in pocket form, a two-sheet map in pocket or case map form, and a four-sheet wall map. This 1851 edition of the two-sheet form is noted for additional place names in the California gold regions, as well as more up to date mapping of the southwest. On the two issues of the 1849 edition, the southwest was depicted as one large region labelled "Upper or New California"; here, California, Utah and New Mexico are separated with defined boundaries.

Rumsey 5535 (1849 edition); Wheat, Maps 188; Streeter sale 3873 and 3874 (1849 editions).

#24839$7,500.00
 
 
COLTON, J.H.

Colton's Map of the United States the Canadas &C. Showing the Rail Roads, Canals & Stage Roads with Distances from Place to Place

New York: Colton, 1855. Period outline color, 26¼ x 29 inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Near fine condition.

The primary map extends as far west as central Texas. Texas' first railroad is shown (from Galveston to Houston). There is an inset "Map of New England and Eastern New York." Not in Rumsey.

#3121$1,500.00
 
 
MITCHELL, S. Augustus

A Route-Book, Adapted to Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic, Comprising Tables of The Principal Rail-Road, Steam-Boat and Stage Routes, Throughout the United States

Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1847. 46pp. plus large folding map: Young, J.H.: "Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic of United States of North America." Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1846. Full period color, 24¼ x 33½ inches. 16mo. Gilt-stamped black leather covers with brass clasp.

There are four insets: "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842," "Map of the Southern part of Florida," "Map of Oregon Territory," and "Map of the State of Texas." The secondary sheet of the 1843 edition of the map with the thirty-two inset city plans has been abolished in favor of a forty-six-page text. The map is revised and updated, most notably by the addition of the newly created Territory of Iowa. The population table has been replaced by two new insets relating to the American West. The inset map of Texas is new. It dates from the first year of statehood, and shows Texas with its Republic boundaries. Not in Rumsey.

Ristow, p.310

#3136$3,750.00
 
 
MITCHELL, S. Augustus

Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic of United States of North America. Together with Maps the Vicinities of Thirty-Two of The Principal Cities and Towns of the Union

Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1843. Engraved map, with full original colour, 24¼ x 33½ inches, with a secondary folding sheet measuring 25¼ x 34¾ inches, with lengthy table of statistics from the 1840 census, surrounded by thirty-two insets of American cities. Gilt-stamped black leather covers with brass clasp.

First pocket edition of an important map of the United States. The map was also published in the same year as a wall map on rollers, surrounded by the thirty-two inset maps of American cities, that here are found on a separate sheet. As with all of Mitchell's early maps of the United States, the main map extends no further west than the 95th meridian (eastern Texas). Two insets are "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" and "Map of the Southern part of Florida." There is a "Population Table based on the Census of 1840" in the lower left. Rumsey lists editions of 1843, 1846, 1848 and 1850 in a wall map format, but no subsequent pocket map versions.

Rumsey Collection: 2290. Streeter Sale (1967), 3861. Ristow, American Maps & Mapamkers, p.310 (ref)

#3134$2,750.00
 
 
MITCHELL, S. Augustus

Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States, Containing the Principal Cities, Towns, &C. Alphabetically Arranged; Together with the Stage, Steam-Boat, Canal, and Railroad Routes…Illustrated by an Accurate Map of the United States

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co.,, 1836 [i.e. 1845]. 78pp. plus large folding map: Young, J.H.: "Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes &c." Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1845. To left of title: "Sold by Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co. No. 253 Market St." Period outline color, 17 x 21 inches. Eight insets. 16mo. Gilt-stamped red leather covers. Minor repairs.

The inset, "Vicinity of New Orleans," has been removed so that the new Territory of Iowa can be included.

#3135$750.00
 
 
PHELPS, Humphrey

Phelps's Travelers' Guide through the United States; Containing Upward of Seven Hundred and Fifty Railroad, Canal, Stage and Steam Boat Routes: Accompanied with a New Map of the United States.

New York: Ensigns [sic.] & Thayer, & Co., 1849. 16mo (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches), 70pp. plus large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline: Atwood, J.M.: "Phelp's National Map of the United States, A Travelers Guide. Containing the Principal Rail Roads, Canals, Steam Boat & Stage Routes, Throughout the Union." New York: Ensign & Thayer, 1849. Sheet size: 20 1/8 x ¼ x 25 inches. Integral uncoloured border with portraits of the presidents and other historic American figures, and versions of the great seals of the states, the map area with three insets: 'Map of Oregon, California and Texas', 'Southern part of Florida' and 'N. part of Maine'. (Small repairs to verso of map). All within publisher's red morocco binding, the upper cover blocked in gilt, the lower cover in blind .

First issue of Phelp's traveller's guide to include the Gold Rush inset of the West.

With the 1849 edition, the eight inset plans of American cities were replaced with one inset of the American West, according to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of November 1848.

Wheat California Gold Region 111; Wheat Transmissippi 631.

#23949$1,250.00
 
 
TARDIEU, Pierre François

United States of N[or]th. America; carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Copiée et Gravée sur celle d'Arrowsmith. Corrigée et considérablement augmentée d'après les renseignements les plus authentiques par P.F. Tardieu, Graveur, Editor-propriétaire

Paris: Tardieu, 1808. Engraved with period outline colour, laid on linen in 60 sections, as issued in four folded sheets, with the original box. Excellent original hand-colouring. Excellent condition. Sheet size: Each sheet 25 x 28 7/8"; together 50 x 57 3/4".

An extraordinary copy of a rare, separately-issued, French edition of one of the great large-scale maps of the early United States: this issue the first to name Michigan Territory.

Based on the first state of Aaron Arrowsmith's map of the same name, Tardieu's improved edition depicts the United States as it began to expand into its continental destiny. In addition to the content presented from Arrowsmith's map, Tardieu made corrections to the mouth of the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence River and Maine. He also added an inset version of Andrew Ellicott's Plan for the City of Washington.

By 1808, the new states of Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio had been added to the original thirteen. Even as the new settlers poured into these, new territories were being organized. This updated edition from the first of 1802 reflects those changes. The most noteworthy change is the addition of Michigan Territory, which was organized in June 1805, making this one of the earliest appearances of Michigan Territory on a printed map. The map also names Indiana Territory and notes the early township surveys in Ohio. The detail in the Upper Mississippi River Valley is also of note.

It was probably Arrowsmith's map that determined Lewis & Clark's decision to use the Missouri River as the most direct means of reaching the Pacific. "The captains had with them the first of two issues dated 1802, and the fifth issue, now known, of the map. On it are representations of the Rocky Mountains running south to New Mexico and the conjectured course and branches of the Missouri river between Great Bend and the Rocky Mountains - dotted lines represent the conjectured courses. The representations derived from information obtained by Peter Fidler, surveyor for the Hudons's Bay Company, and transmitted to Arrowsmith by the Company." (Warren Heckrotte "Aaron Arrowsmith's Map of North America and the Lewis and Clak Expedition" The Map Collector. June, 1987).

Phillips, p.876; Karpinski, p. 207.

#24853$10,000.00
 
 
WILLIAMS, Wellington

The Traveller's and Tourist's Guide through the United States of America, Canada, Etc. Containing the Routes of Travel by Steamboat, Stage and Canal…Accompanied by an Entirely New and Authentic Map of the United States

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851. 216pp. plus 20pp. publisher's catalogue. Engraved folding map entitled "A New Map of the United States, upon which are delineated its vast works of Internal Communication, Routes across the Continent &c. Showing also Canada and the Island of Cuba." Original colour, 24½ x 29 inches. Four insets, including "Map of California, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah &c." Gilt-stamped black pictorial leather covers.

The first edition. Wellington Williams also wrote similar guides for the firm of Appleton and Co., but they lacked large-scale maps, such as the one found in this work. The map extends west to include most of Texas. There is a fine inset (9¼ x 10½ inches) which shows the trans-Mississippi West, and is highly praised by Wheat ("carries much up-to-date information"). Boundaries are shown according to the Compromise of 1850. This edition not in Rumsey, who mistakenly identifies the 1852 printing as the first edition (see 3188). Not in Howes.

Wheat, Transmississippi West, 769

#3198$3,250.00
 
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