Miniature Map (4 results)

Miniature hand-coloured map, 95 x 65 mm. to borders. Poor condition.

Good. Moderate foxing. Size 3.5 x 5.5 Inches. A masterwork of small-scale engraving, this is J. H. Young's 1832 map of Mexico and Central America, which appeared in Henry Carey and Isaac Lea's Family Cabinet Atlas . It depicts the region in the wake of the collapse of Spain's American empire and on the eve of the westward expansion of the United States of America. A Closer Look Coverage extends from the Pacific Northwest, here as 'New Albion,' south through Panama and east to Haiti. Copious detail is provided on the geography of Mexico and Central America, including the labeling of individual provinces of the United Mexican States, all the more impressive given the map's small scale. Some common cartographic errors of the era, such as the Buenaventura River, are retained. Similarly, 'West Florida' is anachronistically maintained. Texas appears as a province of Mexico. At this time, the Mexican government encouraged immigration to Texas despite its inability to prevent conflict with Native Americans, disputes over several issues including slavery, and a failed secession movement in 1826 - 1827. These lingering problems would come to the fore a few years later with the outbreak of the Texas Revolution. 'Guatimala' retains the borders of the defunct Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, but a more accurate reflection of the political situation is demonstrated with the numeric labels. Still, uncertainty remained over borders, particularly around Belize ('Bazlie' here), resulting in Belize (City) being located in Mexico, outside of Belize itself. Publication History and Census This map appeared as Plate 90 in the 1832 (first) edition of Henry Carey and Isaac Lea's 1832 Family Cabinet Atlas . Young had engraved maps of this region as far back as 1825, in Grigg's American Atlas , which may explain some of the anachronisms noted above. The present map is not cataloged in the holdings of any institution in the OCLC and is scarce to the market, while the entire atlas (OCLC 276123103, 276123103) is quite rare, only appearing in four institutional collections.

Very good. Lightly soiled in margins, ms. title added at top border. Size 4.5 x 4 Inches. This is a 1643 Thomas Jenner county map of Cambridgeshire, England. It combines a triangular table showing the distances between towns with a small map in the lower right. The map is Spartan, but well-engraved. A scale is indicated with a mapmaker's compass in the map's lower left corner. It includes part of Norfolk, reaching as far north as Snettisham, and The Wash; in the southwest the map encompasses Bedfordshire, at its extreme including the town of Buckingham. From the First Pocket-Atlas of England In 1625, John Norden published England. An Intended Guyde for English Travailers , which introduced a series of triangular tables allowing the reader to calculate distances between the towns. The book lacked maps, an oversight remedied in 1635 with the publication by Mathew Simons of a new edition entitled A Direction for the English Traviller whose tables, engraved by Jacob van Langeren incorporated maps. The work was the first pocket-sized road atlas, and was popular enough to be reprinted three more times in the seventeenth century. The maps were thumbnail references appearing on William Bowes' 1590 map playing cards. When the London publisher and Parliamentarian supporter Thomas Jenner reissued the work in 1643, he had the Van Langeren plates reengraved to include more up-to-date cartography based on John Speed's county maps. A Partisan Work Jenner's edition of A Direction for the English Traviller was notable for having been published during the English Civil War; Jenner himself was both a Puritan, and a fierce Parliamentarian. His intention in updating the maps in this work were to make it useful to the Parliamentarian army in the field. The scale of the map appears to stand in direct conflict with its utility to casual traveler or field commander alike, but the best printed maps available - mainly Speed's - were both unwieldy and expensive, so even as rudimentary a map as this may have had value. Publication History and Census Jenner's A Direction for the English Traviller was printed in 1643, with further editions printed in 1657 and 1677; the work was also republished under the title A book of the names of all parishes, market towns, villages, hamlets, and smallest places, in England and Wales in those same years, as well as 1662 and 1668. Both books are well represented in institutional collections. We see just one example of the separate map, cataloged at Oxford. References: OCLC 43178143.

Very good. Size 3.5 x 6.25 Inches. This is an 1881 envelope with a miniature map issued for the 1881 season of the Chautauqua Meetings - adult education camps held annually on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, New York. Chautauqua Movement The Chautauqua Institution is a unique educational community located in Chautauqua, New York, renowned for its commitment to the arts, education, religion, and recreation. Founded in 1874, it originally served as a training camp for Sunday school teachers, but evolved into a cultural hub, offering lectures, performances, and classes across diverse disciplines. Its picturesque grounds on the shores of Chautauqua Lake come alive each summer as thousands gather for a season of intellectual exploration, artistic expression, and spiritual reflection, all within the framework of lifelong learning and shared experiences. The success of the initial 'camp' evolved into the Chautauqua Movement, a national effort to foster lifelong learning, religious education, and cultural enrichment. The movement saw the establishment of numerous branch 'Chautauquas' across the nation, often in tent assemblies open-air auditoriums. These gatherings aimed to provide rural communities with intellectual and cultural experiences akin to those available in urban centers. The movement, although less popular than in its heyday, remains alive and annual summer meetings on the original grounds are much anticipated. Publication History and Census This map envelope was printed by William Phelps Northrup, later of the Matthews Northrup firm of Buffalo. This is among the earliest work that can be assigned to Northrup. Likely, given his location in nearby Buffalo, Northrup was a Chautauquan. This is the only known surviving example.