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BEERS, S. N., D. J. Lake, and F. W. Beers

Gillette's Map of Oneida Co. New York from actual surveys under the direction of J. H. French

Philadelphia: John H. Gillette, 1858. Wall map, 66½ x 64 inches, full period colour. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in green cloth, on contemporary rollers. Chip at left end of upper roller. Evenly toned, some minor staining in upper portion. Very good.

Scarce and quite important.

This handsome map was the largest and best for Oneida County, New York, in the nineteenth century. Each township is individually coloured, with every rural property owner located and identified by name. The route of the Erie Canal is shown, as are several railroad lines. There is a large inset street plan of Utica (17 x 27½") that shows virtually every existing building in the town. It is accompanied by an extensive business directory. More than thirty smaller insets show the towns of Rome, Knox Corners, Delta, Trenton Falls, Deerfield Corners, Remsen, Waterville, Durhamville, Vernon, Camden, New Hartford, and Clinton, among others. Seven surrounding engravings show prominent homes and buildings in the region, including the Court House in Rome, Utica City Hall, and the residences of Stanton Park in Waterville and Gen. Lyman Curtiss in Camden.

Silas N. Beers and Frederick W. Beers were cousins and well-known mapmakers. Along with the young D. Jackson Lake, they had studied under J. H. French at Newtown Academy in Newtown, CT. When French left the Academy in 1855 to become head of the New York State mapping project, French enlisted his former students as associates. This project was the most ambitious and accomplished for any American state to its time. The map of Oneida County is the first joint project on which the Beers and Lake collaborated. Ristow hypothesizes that French used the Oneida project as a "training ground" for the three young talented mapmakers.

Not in Rumsey, nor in Phillips's America.

Ristow, American Maps & Mapmakers, pp.393-94.

#6642$3,850.00
 
 
BRASSIER, William Furness (fl. 1745-1772)

[Revolutionary War - Lake Champlain] A Survey of Lake Champlain including Lake George, Crown Point, and St. John. Surveyed by order of Maj.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Amherst, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in America (now Lord Amherst), by William Brassier, draughtsman, 1762.

London: R. Sayer & J. Bennet, Aug. 5th, 1776. Copper-engraved map, with original wash colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 29 1/4 x 21 3/8 inches.

A rare example of Brassier's magnificently detailed map of Lake Champlain, in a state that captures this theatre in the Revolutionary War, and importantly depicting the very first battle fought by the U.S. Navy

This excellent large-scale detailed chart of Lake Champlain was based on the field work of William Brassier conducted through 1758 and 1759, whilst he was in the employ of James Montresor, the chief surveyor of the northern part of the British American colonies. The main section of the map embraces the entire length of the waterway from Lake George through Lake Champlain, and north past the Quebec border to depict the upper Richelieu River Valley as far as St. Jean. The great accuracy and detail of the map is testament to Brassier's immense skill as a surveyor and draughtsman, as he would have had to perform his role under very trying circumstances. At the time the region was an active front in the Seven Years War (1756-63), as British forces under Sir Jeffery Amherst advanced on the Marquis de Montcalm's French forces, who were guarding the southern approaches to Montreal. The inset in the lower left corner of the map features an extremely detailed rendering of Lake George, surveyed by British Captain Jackson in 1756. The map evinces the English nomenclature given to the newly captured French forts, most notably Fort Ticonderoga, which was formerly Fort Carillon, and Crown Point, formerly Fort St. Frederic. In addition, the map shows the recently constructed Fort George, on the lake of the same name, so called after the British monarch in 1755. The map features fascinating details relating to the events of the Seven Years War, describing altercations between the protagonists.

Importantly, the present second state is advanced of the first in that it illustrates the very first battle fought by the U.S. Navy - the Battle of Valcour Island, which transpired near present-day Plattsburgh, New York. Following the failed American attempt to invade Canada in 1775, the British decided to mount a powerful reprise designed to geographically sever New England from the mid-Atlantic colonies by seizing control of the Lake Champlain-Hudson Valley corridor. To create their Lake Champlain fleet, the British summoned a skilled team of craftsmen to St. John (St. Jean-sur-Richelieu) to assemble ships that were pre-fabricated in England, while the Americans relied on far more limited means to cobble together their fleet of 16 ships at Skenesborough. Hardly an equal match, the Americans could muster only 16 ships and 750 hands, while the British side's 30 ships carried 1,670 hands. The British fleet, commanded by Sir Guy Carleton, the Governor-General of Canada and Captain Thomas Pringle set out to doggedly pursue the enemy. The commander of the American fleet, the soon to be infamous Benedict Arnold, knew that he would be totally destroyed in an open battle, so on October 11th, 1776 he cleverly lured the British fleet into engaging him in a narrow, rocky passage. The confined space limited the British advantage of superior fire power, and though following a pitched battle, the Americans had suffered more damage than their opponents, some of the fleet managed to escape the scene. While the British were later able to destroy most of the remaining American vessels, their tactical victory proved to be strategically pyrrhic. The Americans had successfully created a delaying tactic that effectively prevented the British from seizing the all important forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. The failure of the British to quickly complete their mission ensured that the Americans were able to re-group in time for the new season, and this in good part allowed them to deal a crushing blow to the British at the Battles of Saratoga in October, 1777.

Brassier's survey remained in manuscript form until the early days of the American Revolution, when the first state appeared in the 1776 edition of Thomas Jefferys's American Atlas, one of the most important and influential works of the cartography of the continent. The present second state appeared in both the 1778 edition of the American Atlas and the Sayer & Bennett's American Military Pocket Atlas - the so-called 'Holster Atlas,' which was used by British commanders in the field. Brassier's original manuscript is today preserved in the Faden Collection at Library of Congress.

Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 12/3&4; Fite & Freeman, A Book of Old Maps, pp.212-216; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, pp. 61-63; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p.190; Seller & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 1071 & 1073; Stevens & Tree, 'Comparative Cartography', 25b, in Tooley, The Mapping of America

#19727$9,500.00
 
 
BRIDGEMAN, E.

Bridgeman's New Rail Road & Township Map of New York....

New York: E. C. Bridgeman, [1880]. Wall map, 69½ x 64 inches, full period colour. Expertly repaired, backed on linen, contemporary rollers, trimmed in modern blue cloth. Minute creasing. Overall very good.

Scarce. An attractive map of New York state, featuring seven insets--a population table, a map of Manhattan, a map of Long Island, a list of principal cities and towns, a breakdown of congressional districts, a map of upper Manhattan and the Bronx, and a map of the United States. All of Lake Ontario is shown, as is the state's northwestern Canadian boundary. A nice view of the state as a whole, with particular focus on the state's most important regions. Not on OCLC.

Phillips, America, p.517.

#6476$3,750.00
 
 
BURR, David H. (1803-1875)

Map of the State of New-York with Parts of the Adjacent Country, embracing plans of the cities, and some of the larger villages

Ithaca, NY: Stone & Clark, 1841. Copper-engraved wall map, with full original colour, "Engraved by S. Stiles & Co., of New York, and D. S. Throop of Ithaca," backed with new linen, trimmed in green cloth, varnished, on contemporary rollers, generally in very good condition . Sheet size: 44½ x 54¼ inches.

A very rare map, the third edition of the most important state map of New York of the early nineteenth century.

Based upon surveys authorized by the legislature, Burr's map was essentially the first official state map of New York, a fact that was emphasized by a notice on the first edition of 1830: "Published by [order of ] Simeon de Witt Surveyor General [of the State of New York] Pursuant to an act of the Legislature." A second edition appeared in 1834. The publication rights were subsequently purchased by Stone and Clark, who in 1841 brought out this new updated version of the map. In all editions it was the most accurate and detailed of New York for the period. Among the insets are a large plan of Manhattan (29" x 10¾"), and smaller plans of Syracuse, Hudson, Oswego, Poughkeepsie, Ithaca, Utica, Rochester, Schenectady, Lockport, Auburn, Buffalo, Albany, and Troy, as well as a fine engraving of the Erie Canal at Little Falls. This 1841 edition is not in Phillips' America, nor in Rumsey.

See Rumsey, 2269 (for 1834 ed.).

#4884$8,500.00
 
 
BURR, David

A Map of the State of New-York and the Surrounding Country…Designating County, Towns, Canals, Rail Roads, Senatorial & Congressional Divisions. Also the Distances Along the Canals, Rail Roads and Principal Mail Routes

Ithaca, N.Y.: Stone & Clark, 1841. Full period color, 20 x 24¾ inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Some repairs.

"Engd. by Rawdon, Clark & Co., Albany & Rawdon, Wright & Co., New York." This is a revised edition of an important map of New York State. It originally appeared in the first edition of Burr's Atlas of the State of New York (1829), which was authorized by the Legislature of the State, and was just the second atlas of an American state to appear in print. In the following year, a wall map version of the map was published. The official status of the map was emphasized by a notice on the first (1830) edition of the wall map version: "Published by [order of ] Simeon de Witt Surveyor General [of the State of New York] Pursuant to an act of the Legislature." The rights to the Atlas of the State of New York were subsequently purchased by Stone and Clark, who in 1841 brought out this updated pocket map edition of the folio version of the state map. Not in Rumsey nor in Phillips. For the atlas and wall map, see Ristow, pp.104-5.

#3221$900.00
 
 
BURR, David

New-York

New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1836. Period outline color, 18¼ x 21½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped red leather covers. A fine example.

Second edition of Burr's smaller map of New York, with the copyright 1833, but dated 1836 below the title. This was one of the first maps published by the distinguished firm of Colton. "Engraved and Printed by S. Stiles & Co." The address for Stiles & Co. has been erased. Label containing the "Census of 1835" laid down on inside front cover. This 1836 edition was also included as the general map for the small version of Burr's Atlas of New York (1838). Five insets: "Niagara River, From Albany to Lake Champlain & Lake George," Environs of New York, City of New-York, "Environs of Utica." Not in Phillips.

Rumsey 108

#3219$1,250.00
 
 
CHAPIN, William (1802-1888)

Squire's Map of the State of New York, Containing all the Towns in the State

New York: 1836. Engraved wall map, full period hand-colouring. Inset maps of Manhattan, New York Bay, and the Vicinity of Niagara. Inset view of Niagara Falls. Inset tables relating to height of mountains, length of rivers and construction of canals. (Linen-backing renewed). Sheet size: 24 x 33 inches.

Scarce 19th century wall map of New York State at the height of canal fever.

Chapin began his career as an apprentice to John Vallance in Philadelphia in 1817. Five years later, he began working for Fielding Lucas. Chapin was the engraver of Greenleaf's atlas of the state of Maine (1829) and Lay's wall map of the United States (1832). First issued in 1834, the present example is the second issue, with the date changed in the cartouche. The map is quite rare, with only one other copy recorded by OCLC.

Not in Phillips, A List of Maps of America or Rumsey.

#25812$1,500.00
 
 
COLTON, J.H.

Colton's Railroad & Township Map of the State of New York. with Parts of the Adjoining States & Canada

New York: Colton & Company, 1853. Full period color, 24 x 28¼ inches. Ornate decorative border. Folding into brown cloth covers, later paper label on front cover. Sales label for J.H. Colton & Co., 86 Cedar St., NY, on inside front cover.

One of Colton's "Railroad & Township Maps" series of the various states. The map bears the copyright date of 1852, which must have been the date of original publication. Statistical table giving census figures for 1840 and 1850 in upper left corner. The map was frequently updated and corrected, with several subsequent editions. Rumsey (179) lists an 1855 edition.

#3226$1,250.00
 
 
DE WITT, Simeon (1756-1834)

Map of the State of New York by Simeon De Witt Surveyor General Contracted from his large Map of the State

New York: 1804 [but a circa 1812 issue with colouring reflecting new county boundaries]. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Sheet size: 23 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches.

Unique copy of De Witt's important 1804 map of New York, with county divisions updated to 1812.

In 1778, George Washington appointed Simeon De Witt as the assistant to Robert Erskine, the first Geographer and Surveyor General of the United States, a position De Witt attained several years later. Following the war, De Witt became the first Surveyor General of New York, a position he held for an unprecedented fifty years. Among his first acts was to create the definitive first map of the state based on actual surveys. Following the settlement of the state's boundaries and accurate surveys which he directed, De Witt published a large wall map in 1802 - the first map of the state and the progenitor of similar mappings in other states.

Two years later, De Witt issued this "contracted" version of his wall map, intending its circulation to meet a wider audience. According to Allen, however, the map, which was sold by subscription, "does not seem to have been as widely distributed as its predecessor, although it appears to have been designed to reach a wider audience. It may be that De Witt's 1804 map was unable to find a niche in competition with other small-scale maps of the state, such as those of Samuel Lewis" (Allen). Nevertheless, as Streeter commented, De Witt's 1804 map is "one of the earliest separate folding maps of New York after it became a state."

Interestingly, the present copy suggests that De Witt, or an enterprising mapseller, made an additional attempt to market this map. This copy of the 1804 map is updated to 1812; that is, the map is as printed in 1804 but the county boundaries shown via period hand colouring depicts the state in 1812: the far western counties established in 1808 are clearly delineated (e.g. Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Niagara counties) but Erie County created in 1821 is not shown; Putnam county is shown separate from Dutchess County as per its establishment in 1812; Oneida County is shown with its western boundary on Lake Ontario, i.e. before the 1816 establishment of Oswego County; among other additions. In all the state is divided into 47 counties.

We find no other example of De Witt's 1804 map altered in this fashion. The exactness and appearance of the colouring, however, suggests it to be a distinct issue of the map, or done for some official purpose, as opposed to an early owner's mere manuscript addition.

Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, pp. 73-83; Rumsey 2489; Streeter Sale 893; David Y. Allen, How Simeon De Witt Mapped New York State.

#25627$6,500.00
 
 
DRIPPS, Matthew (publisher)

Map of the Bays, Harbors and Rivers around New York

New York: published by M. Dripps, 1871. Provenance: Thomas H. Kane (early ink stamp to lower right corner). Lithographic map, with full period hand-colour, on fine paper (old folds with some browning, expert repairs and occasional facsimile work). Sheet size: 33 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches.

An attractive map of Manhattan and its surroundings.

As the title suggests, this map concentrates on physical landmarks and features of the land and sea "Showing the channels, soundings, lighthouses, buoys &c. and the complete topography of the surrounding country; including Hemstead, Sandy-Hook, South-Amboy, Newark, Yonkers, N. Rochelle & Glencove". The title goes on to note that the map is "Based on the trigonometrical survey, executed in 1856, for the Harbor Commissioners of New York, by A.D. Bache Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey", but is at pains to point out that "The surveys of the cities, townships, railways, canals, roads, etc. are entirely original, & have been carefully revised & completed to date".

"Checklist of Maps and Atlases relating to the city of New York in the New York Public Library" in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, volume V (New York: 1901), p.70

#20370$3,750.00
 
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