Lewis Map Canada (1 results)

1st Edition. Good. Toning along fold lines and at bottom margin. Repaired rip and remargined portion at bottom-left. Some wear along fold lines, especially at bottom-right. Size 15 x 17 Inches. This is a first edition example of Samuel Lewis' 1794 map of Canada for Carey's General Atlas , the first atlas published in the young American Republic. It depicts the remaining British colonies in North America (save for Bermuda) in the wake of the American Revolution, before they had cohered into a single entity and identity as Canada. A Closer Look An interesting format is employed here, with a large inset taking up much of the top half of the sheet. Coverage extends from Lake Superior in the west to Newfoundland in the east, and from the U.S. border in the south to Baffin's Bay in the north, with a portion of southern Greenland at top-right of the main map and at right in the inset. Wonderful details are noted, including waterways, forts, settlements, islands, mountain and hills, the names and locations of Native American groups, and the boundary line between the newly-independent United States and British colonies. As with the other maps in Carey's atlas, longitude is measured from a Prime Meridian at Philadelphia. Publication History and Census This map was made Samuel Lewis for the first (1795) edition of Carey's General Atlas (sometimes subtitled American Edition of Guthrie's Geography improved ). The prevalence of the map is difficult to determine since it is sometimes cataloged independently and sometimes with the atlas, and because OCLC catalog listings often include microfilm and digitized copies, but both the individual map and the entire atlas are held by a handful of universities and research institutions in the United States and Europe. References: Rumsey 2542.001. Boston Public Library, Leventhal, G3400 1809 .L49. OCLC 610568967.