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Original publisher's hand-colored engraved map showing parts of the Colony of Virginia and Canada. Several paths of ships are shown with an accompanying ship icon. The ship icons include the names of those commanding the ships and when the ships arrived at their destinations. This map is from the first edition of Emma Willard's atlas titled, A Series of Maps of Willard's History of the United States, or, Republic of America. Pink, yellow, blue, and green watercolors highlight the ships' paths and the East Coast. Tracks of the ships are not depicted in their entirety but the destinations are shown. In the upper-left is an inset illustration with the caption, "The Pilgrims Land at Plymouth on the 22nd. of Dec. 1620." Boundary lines of the De Monts Patent, Plymouth Company, and London Company within the Colony of Virginia are included with an accompanying legend. An inset map shows New York (as it is known today) and the path of two ships with the caption, "Places near the Mouth of the Hudson Visited by the Dutch." No date, circa 1828. Paper with margins measures 9" x 11." Actual map area measures 6 3/4" x 10." Paper is very clean and intact except for a few spots. Title is printed at the top along with the following: "To Accompany Willard's History of the United States." Printed at the bottom is the following: "Engraved & Printed by Saml. Maverick." Different geographic features are shown including cities and rivers. Emma Willard (1787-1870) was a women's rights activist, educator, and cartographer. From an early age, Willard had a prowess for learning, academics, and teaching. Among Willard's major accomplishments was her founding of the first school for women's higher education, Troy Female Seminary, in 1821. Willard's school gave women opportunities to learn academic subjects that were typically reserved for men at the time, such as geography, history, philosophy, mathematics, and science. Troy Female Seminary is still open to this day in Troy, New York as the Emma Willard School (or simply, Emma) as a reputable and prestigious private school. Willard is also notable for being the first woman cartographer in the United States who worked in a professional capacity. Willard's approach to cartography was innovative in that she viewed mapmaking as a way to represent the relationship between historical events and philosophical concepts such as space, time, and memory. Samuel Maverick (1789-1845) came from a family of engravers and printers in New York. The work of the Mavericks was highly regarded and the family's printing tradition began with Peter Rushton Maverick (1755-1811). From the inception of Peter R. Maverick's career until about the mid-1800s, the Maverick name was synonymous engraving, lithography, and printing as a whole. Seller Inventory # 021714
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