Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015588255 ISBN 13: 9781015588257
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015588255 ISBN 13: 9781015588257
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015588255 ISBN 13: 9781015588257
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015588255 ISBN 13: 9781015588257
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., [1845]., 1845
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Folding engraved map (17 4/8 x 21 4/8 inches) showing the United States as far west as Indiana Territory, as far south as Florida with 8 insets of the Vicinity of Cincinnati; Vicinity of Albany; Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara; Vicinity of New York; Vicinity of Charleston; Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington; Vicinity of Philadelphia; and Vicinity of Boston, with original hand-colour in outline (very browned). 78-page guide. Original blind-embossed tan roan, lettered in gilt on upper cover. Provenance: Several canal routes through Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and New York shown in blue ink. First published in 1832, with accompanying text added in 1834, and continuously updated and enlarged. "Internal improvements coupled with the great Irish and German migrations beginning in 1827 led to the production of traveler's guides that depicted roads and their distances, steamboat and canal routes, and lengths of principal railroads. In 1832 Samuel Augustus Mitchell first issued his 'Traveller's Guide through the United States' and complimented it two years later with 'Tourist Pocket Maps' of the different states. These early works and their multitudinous progeny over the next fifty years laid the foundation for the road maps of today" (Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, page 255).
Published by Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1837., 1837
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Single sheet (17 x 21 inches to the neat-line, full margins). Letterpress census laid down on the front past-down. Fine folding engraved map with insets of the "Lead Region East of the Mississippi River"; "Falls of Ohio"; "Vicinity of Cincinnati"; and "Vicinity of Detroit", with original hand-colour in full (laid down on archival tissue, one or two small losses, some staining). Original black roan, gilt (a bit rubbed). Provenance: some canal routes marked in red and blue pen. First issued in 1834, and with some changes from that issue: Lake Michigan has been redrawn, the addition of new counties in Indiana is notes, such as Porter, Newton, and Jasper, etc.). Iowa did not become a territory until 1838 and a state until 1844, and is labeled here as Missouri and Wisconsin Territory. Interestingly this map shows the controversial Dubuque lead mining region, including the site of Julien Dubuque's grave. Between 1796, when this grant was confirmed by the Spanish governor of Louisiana, and his death in 1810, Dubuque had succeeded in establishing a monopoly controlling the smelting and shipping of lead from the region, known as the "Mines of Spain". Unable to sustain a working relationship with the local Ioway Indians Dubuque's creditors who succeeded to his rights abandoned the enterprise, and lead-mining rights in Iowa remained in a legal turmoil that lasted until 1853, when the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on the ownership of the Dubuque area mines, disallowing claims based on Julien Dubuque's Spanish land grants.
Published by Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1836., 1836
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Engraved folding pocket map (17 4/8 x 22 2/8 inches to the neat-line, full margins). Letterpress census laid down on the front past-down. Fine folding engraved map with insets of the "Lead Region East of the Mississippi River"; "Falls of Ohio"; "Vicinity of Cincinnati"; and "Vicinity of Detroit", with original hand-colour in full (some spotting and offseting). Contemporary publisher's cherry roan, gilt (a bit rubbed). First issued in 1834, and with some changes from that issue: Lake Michigan has been redrawn, the addition of new counties in Indiana is notes, such as Porter, Newton, and Jasper, etc.). Iowa did not become a territory until 1838 and a state until 1844, and is labeled here as Missouri and Wisconsin Territory. Interestingly this map shows the controversial Dubuque lead mining region, including the site of Julien Dubuque's grave. Between 1796, when this grant was confirmed by the Spanish governor of Louisiana, and his death in 1810, Dubuque had succeeded in establishing a monopoly controlling the smelting and shipping of lead from the region, known as the "Mines of Spain". Unable to sustain a working relationship with the local Ioway Indians Dubuque's creditors who succeeded to his rights abandoned the enterprise, and lead-mining rights in Iowa remained in a legal turmoil that lasted until 1853, when the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on the ownership of the Dubuque area mines, disallowing claims based on Julien Dubuque's Spanish land grants.
Published by Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1835., 1835
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. Engraved folding pocket map (17 4/8 x 21 6/8 inches to the neat-line, full margins). Letterpress census laid down on the front past-down. Fine folding engraved map with insets of the "Lead Region East of the Mississippi River"; "Falls of Ohio"; "Vicinity of Cincinnati"; and "Vicinity of Detroit", with original hand-colour in full (some browing and short separations at folds). Contemporary publisher's red roan, gilt (scuffed). First issued in 1834, and with some changes from that issue: Lake Michigan has been redrawn, the addition of new counties in Indiana is notes, such as Porter, Newton, and Jasper, etc.). Iowa did not become a territory until 1838 and a state until 1844, and is labeled here as Missouri and Wisconsin Territory. Interestingly this map shows the controversial Dubuque lead mining region, including the site of Julien Dubuque's grave. Between 1796, when this grant was confirmed by the Spanish governor of Louisiana, and his death in 1810, Dubuque had succeeded in establishing a monopoly controlling the smelting and shipping of lead from the region, known as the "Mines of Spain". Unable to sustain a working relationship with the local Ioway Indians Dubuque's creditors who succeeded to his rights abandoned the enterprise, and lead-mining rights in Iowa remained in a legal turmoil that lasted until 1853, when the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on the ownership of the Dubuque area mines, disallowing claims based on Julien Dubuque's Spanish land grants.
Published by Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1833., 1833
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Single sheet (13 x 14 6/8 inches to the neat-line, full margins). Letterpress Pennsylvania Census for 1830 laid-down on the front paste-down, Mitchell's imprint on the back paste-down. Fine engraved map of Pennsylvania, with insets of the Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal Regions, the Vicinity of Philadelphia, and a profile of Pennsylvania Canal, with original hand-colour in full (one or two separations at folds). Original blue roan, gilt (expertly rebacked to style). First published by Mitchell, one of America's pre-eminent cartographers, in 1831 in his re-issue of Finley's "New American Atlas" but with considerable additions and improvements, on which he collaborated with Young. Mitchell and Young continued to work together for decades, including on this series of pocket maps, of which this is one of the earliest.
Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1845
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
Map
Copper-engraved wall map, with full original colour, expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in green cloth, on contemporary rollers, with bright colour, overall in very good condition. An impressive wall map of the United States from a crucial year in American history. In 1834 Mitchell republished his A New Map of the United States under the title of Reference and Distance Map. New, updated editions appeared almost yearly. When compared to the 1833 edition of the former, this 1845 edition of the Reference and Distance Map shows many new developments in the upper Midwest. The outline of Lake Michigan has undergone extensive corrections. An oversized Wisconsin Territory (1836) now appears. Two of the small insets of American towns have been removed from the upper left-hand corner so that the new oversized Territory of Iowa (1838) could be added. The large inset General Map of the United States now shows Texas in its last year as an independent Republic. An important American map, showing the country on the eve of its second great national expansion. Rumsey 4223; Phillips, Maps, p. 898.