Barker Map Delaware (1 results)

Fair. Repaired centerfold separation. Toning along centerfold. Size 16 x 9 Inches. An example of Matthew Carey and William Barker's 1795 map of Delaware, which appeared in Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved , the first atlas published in the United States of America. It provides a fascinating snapshot of America's first state in the years following independence. A Closer Look Delaware is presented along with portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and 'West New Jersey,' retaining the nomenclature of New Jersey's earlier colonial-era division. Roads, towns, counties, major bridges, and other features are indicated. Philadelphia, the national capital at the time of publication, appears near top. Several town names changed in the years after the map's production, including Fort Penn (Port Penn), or disappeared, as with Noxonton and Pilottown, later incorporated into Lewistown (Lewes). Waterways and swamps are labeled throughout, and in Delaware Bay, islands, shoals, flats, and anchorages are recorded. The Cape Henlopen Lighthouse is illustrated at the bottom-center. Completed in 1767, it was the sixth lighthouse built in the American colonies. British troops damaged the lighthouse during the American Revolution, but it was repaired by 1784. By the early 20th century, the lighthouse was falling into disrepair and threatened by coastal erosion. It fell into the sea during a storm in 1926. Publication History and Census This map was engraved by William Barker for inclusion in Matthew Carey's Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved , published in Philadelphia in 1795. The same map also appeared in the overlapping Carey's American Atlas , published soon afterward. Regardless of printing, it is independently cataloged among the holdings of seven institutions in the OCLC and is scarce to the market. References: Rumsey 2542.011. OCLC 68188008, 164066661, 217934526.