Thayer Ensign (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Bound In Brown Cloth With Gold Titles. Complete With The Hand Colored Map Tipped In At The Rear Of The Book. The Map Titled" Map Of The City Of New York, With The Adjacent Cities Of Brooklyn & Jersey City, 1853" Has A Few Splits At The Folds But Remains Bright. The Book Has A Loose Rear Hinge And Foxing. Book.

Outline color; colored decorative boards. 21-1/2 x 26-1/2 inches, folded into gilt-decorated and gilt-lettered red leather portfolio as issued. A few tiny reinforcements at fold intersections; map otherwise fine. There a few small losses to the spine of the portfolio and light rubbing at edges.

Boards over folding map. Condition: Very good condition. Map of New York City and surroundings. The main map includes most of Governor's Island and all of Lower Manhattan from the Battery to 32nd Street, as well as parts of the City of Brooklyn on the opposite shore of the East River from the Navy Yard to Sackett Street, and the shoreline of Williamsburg. There are small inset maps top left of Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as the "Northern Part of New York Island" (a simplified map of the part of Manhattan not included in the main map, then a largely rural and undeveloped area). 5 3/4 x 3 1/2", maroon embossed cloth covers, 28pp, map 20 1/4 x 16 3/4". Cover sunned at spine, rubbed at edges, internally clean and bright.

33 [2, ads] pp. The folding colored "Map of the Western States" by J. M. Atwood measures approx. 211/2 x 27-1/4 inches, with engraved vignettes at the corners and an elaborate floral border. 12mo, publisher's gilt leather. Very attractive. There are a few tiny losses to the spine of the folder and light rubbing to its edges.

Condition: Good. Hand-colored lithograph. 12" x 9". Very Good. Mounted on backing board. Scarce.

Original wall map, 35 by 32 inches. Professionally restored, Very Good.

A spectacular broadside in the flamboyant style of many others published during and shortly after the Mexican War, such as the series of Ornamental Maps of the United States. Fine condition, one short tear at bottom left mended. This piece is interesting typographically as the names of the states on the individual maps as well as the borders of those maps have been printed in red. The remainder of the map has been printed in black and hand colored. This sheet has a decorative border, ornamental title, small individual maps of the seven states listed in the title, and uncolored views of Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago. There are also small views at the top of the Old Statehouse in Chilicothe, Ohio and William Henry Harrison's residence in North Bend, Ohio. This is the first time we have ever seen this most striking piece which is among the earliest to elevate Chicago to a prominent place among Midwestern cities.

Wall map of lower New England, apparently never affixed to rods. Full color by town, some of the colors have oxidized to a whitish shade. Age-toned, light creasing, otherwise very good condition. 14 inset maps, including Boston, New York, Norwich, Fall River, New Haven, Salem, Lowell, Providence, Hartford, Woonsocket and Pawtucket. Also has inset maps of the factories around Warwick & Coventry Rhode Island, North Adams, Mass., and Canton, Mass.

Modern linen backing, varnish removed. Full color by county, some age toning. Decorative border with information on each state. Small inset map of Oregon, large inset at bottom right of Texas. Shows the United States to eastern Texas. A classic Manifest Destiny-era map, with a wonderful cartouche showing an eagle sitting on top of a globe with a properous country unfolding behind it. The map of Texas measures 20x23 cm.

Garish decorative broadside with portraits of the first twelve presidents, including the just-elected Taylor. At the center is a small copy of Trumbull's depiction of the signing of the Declaration. Other patriotic decorative elements added. Linen-backed, with original rods. Small tear with loss at top left margin. Generally very good condtion, moderately worn.

Colored map of New England states. With fine unusual vignette border.Shows old and new Railroads.

Printed ornamental borders; portraits of George Washington and Generals Taylor and Scott at top, with patriotic views at the lower edge; Table of Distances in Mexico at the lower left corner; and border panels listing statistics of the States and Territories. 29 x 21 inches A few small and unobtrusive losses in the area of the portraits with old reinforcements on verso; some shallow marginal chipping. Generally bright and very attractive. This map was issued several times from 1846-51 reflecting border changes resulting from the Mexican-American War.

Original wall map, 35 by 32 inches. Professionally restored, Very Good.

N/A. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Engraving with original hand-color. Sheet size: 31 x 23". Frame size: 40 1/4 x 32 1/4". Inventory#: p2012pfat.

ENSIGN & THAYER. Ornamental Map of the United States & Mexico. New York: Ensign & Thayer, 1848. Lithograph map, with full original hand color, sheet dimensions: 31 x 23 inches (excellent condition, edges reinforced, slight chipping on top right edge). Created at a time of incredible expansion for the nation, this map boldly proclaims in no uncertain terms that America is poised to emerge as a dominant global force. 1848 was a pivotal year that saw the U.S. on the cusp of victory in the Mexican American War, which ended with Mexico being forced to cede almost half of her territory at the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on the 4th of July of that year. Texas had become a state in 1845, and California, as well as the area to the north which would become Oregon and Washington State were being recognized as U.S. Territories. This sudden addition of land was the first major expansion of the country since the Louisiana Purchase and began the great migration to the west and southwest that continues to this day. Portraits of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott-two heroes of the war with Mexico-flank a central image of a mythic-looking and approving George Washington framed in flags and sunbeams. At the base of the sheet, two scenes depict an ancient Mexican culture that has just be defeated by the upstart American conquerors. The "Panoramic View from New York to the Pacific Ocean by the Contemplated Oregon Railroad", located between the map and the top register, is a highly stylized cross-section of the newly transcontinental America. This pictorial expression of 'Manifest Destiny' anticipates the construction of a transnational railway more than twenty years before such an ambition was realized. In "An American Exhibiting to the Sovereigns of Europe the Progress of his country" a healthy Walt Whitman-looking figure in fashionable and casual dress stands on the battlement of a fort bristling with cannon, confidently gesturing to a vista depicting scenes that embody the virtues of America's natural resources and the ingenuity of her people. The European dignitaries are outfitted in stuffy formal garb and look sallow, old, paunched, and intimidated. The landscape features a crowded river filled with steam and sailing ships, rich farmlands dotting lush fields, and bold cloud-piercing mountains surmounted only by an ultra-modern balloon rising in the sky. This juxtaposition was meant to highlight the difference between the Old world and the New, with America as the leaders of the future-a message that the readers of that time must have heard loud and clear. This patriotic tableau, richly ornamented, was the ultimate statement that the popular notion of 'Manifest Destiny' was being fulfilled in the west. In the map of the United States and Mexico, which makes up the centerpiece of the tableau, the United States is shown to extend from sea to sea. Her new possessions include the vast new territory of 'New California', occupying all of the modern states of California, Nevada, Utah, and most of Arizona. New Mexico runs down the length of the upper Rio Grande, while an enlarged Texas (which became a U.S. state in 1845), prominently occupies the center of the map. Also featured is the Oregon Territory, in the Pacific Northwest, which officially became part of the U.S. in 1846, while the vast 'Missouri Territory' and the 'Indian Territory' (the latter still reserved for Native Americans) occupy most the Great Plains. References: Wheat, 'California Gold Fields', no.38; Wheat 'Mapping the Transmississippi West', no. 557. Location note: Texas drawer.

This beautifully colored map was originally issued as a folding pocket map by the famous mapmakers, Ensign & Thayer in 1843. This map has amazing detail and includes roads, distances, steamboat and canal routes. It also includes several insets of major cities & important harbors of the time, including New York City, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, Chicago and several more. Its archivally framed in a wide silver beaded frame, with a light blue fabric mat, a rustic silver fillet and another thicker fillet that's painted light blue. It's floated on an ochre fabric mat. This map measures 28.5 inches by 33 inches.