Map of the State of Connecticut

One sheet (52" x 46 3/4" sheet, 57 5/8" x 51 3/4" framed). Hand-colored lithograph, mounted on linen. Mild scattered foxing. Slight toning and tearing around the center fold. James Botsford Beers (1811-1901) of the J.B Beers & Co. map publishing firm was born in Connecticut and began publishing maps and county atlases around 1870. J.B. was the patriarch of the Beers family of map publishers; both his son Frederick W. Beers and his distant cousin John Hobart Beers also published maps and atlases. J.B. Beers published more than 150 county and city atlases and about sixty maps that were offered for sale by the firm. Although he published maps of the whole of the United States, Connecticut was doubtless a special interest, as he was born and buried in Newtown. The map includes a table giving the population as of 1800 and dates of settlement or organization of towns, arranged by Senatorial district, as well as a table giving 1870 and 1880 populations for counties, arranged by Congressional district.…