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 ARKANSAS - RAND McNALLY & Co.
Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed county and township pocket map and shippers' guide of Arkansas
Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Co., Map Publishers and Engravers, (1895). Folding pocket map, printed in black and red. Folds into original lettered thin card covers. With 47pp. letterpress index followed by 13pp. of advertisements. Sheet size: 21 x 27 1/2 inches.
Railroad map of Arkansas.
The sub-title notes that the map is "Accompanied by a new and original compilation and ready reference index, showing in detail the entire railroad system. The Express Company doing business over each road, and accurately locating all Cities, Towns, Post Offices, Railroad Stations, Villages Counties, Islands, Lakes, Rivers, etc." The large map shows the state divided into counties, with all the principal towns, roads, rivers, springs and mountain ranges identified. Printed in red along the right side of the map are a list of the state's railroads, with numbers to corresponding routes on the map.
This popular series of guides by Rand McNally continued to be published into the 20th century, however 19th century issues are more uncommon. This edition not in Phillips.
Cf. Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.125 (editions for 1881, 1883, 1884 and 1892).
#24802 $300.00  
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 ATWOOD, J. M.
Map of the Western States
New York: Thayer, Bridgman & Fanning, 1853. Engraved folding pocket map, full period hand-coloring. Grape leaf border, vignette views of Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati at each corner within the border. 35pp text. Folds into publisher's dark brown morocco, the upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt with the title in gilt, lower cover with a repeat design in blind. Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 26 3/4 inches.
Ensign & Thayer's Travellers' Guide: a lovely pocket map of the mid-West, this copy with full period colour
Atwood's map, with its distinctive grape leaf border, depicts the region from western Pennsylvania in the east to as far west as Nebraska, as far north as Lake Superior and as far south as the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. The map is preceded by a lengthy guide, titled "Ensign & Thayer's Travellers' Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, with Railroad Canal, Stage, and Steamboat Routes." The text includes descriptions of each state, with county by county populations, as well as tables of railroad, stage and other routes across the continent.
Howes E165; Buck 347; Eberstadt 111:057.
#25756$800.00
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 BARNES, R.L
Railroad, Canal & County Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Adjoining States
Philadelphia: 1864.
Some period color, 26 x 36 inches. Folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Minor repairs, else very nice.
The watershed of the Allegheny River in the "Oil District," Venago County, is marked in red. A reduced version of Melish's map of Pennsylvania, reissued by Barnes in 1849. This reduced version was first published in 1856, apparently without the highlighting of the Allegheny watershed in red. Rumsey lists editions of 1857 and 1865 (3350, 4061).
#3064$1,250.00
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 BLANCHARD, Rufus (1821-1904)
Blanchard's Guide Map of Chicago
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1872. Engraved folding pocket map, full contemporary hand-colouring. Folds into publisher's lettered paper covers. With 14pp. printed street guide tipped to the inside wrapper, as issued. Sheet size: 22 x 16 3/4 inches.
Rare street map of Chicago, showing the city just one year after the fire.
This edition of Blanchard's guide, the first published after the Great Chicago Fire, shows the limits of the burnt region by means of a thin dotted line. All streets are named, along with the city's parks, public buildings, railroads, etc. The pamphlet which accompanies the guide allows for each street to be easily found by means of numbers and letters running along the left and lower margins.
A scarce issue of Blanchard's guide and rarely found in such lovely original condition.
#24809$1,500.00
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 BLANCHARD, Rufus (1821-1904)
Blanchard's Guide Map of Illinois
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1872. Folding pocket map, full period hand-colouring. 16pp. publisher's catalogue and ads. Publisher's lettered stiff paper wrappers. Sheet size: 22 x 16 1/2 inches.
Scarce Blanchard guide map of Illinois, in original paper wrappers.
Following the 1871 Chicago fire, Blanchard relocated his shop from Lake Street in the burnt district to nearby Clark Street, and in 1872 began a new series of pocket maps, advertised by him as "Maps in flexible cases with price reduced." His description continues: "For the benefit of those who wish good Maps in a cheap and convenient form, the publisher has issued the following series. Scale, 18 miles to an inch. They show the Counties, Towns and Railroads." Maps of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas and Missouri were issued in this format at the price of 25 cents, significantly less than his other pocket maps advertised for sale. This series of maps is quite uncommon, no doubt suffering a decreased survival rate from their paper wrappers. This copy of the map with Blanchard's catalogue and advertisement mounted to the inside front wrapper.
#25833$1,000.00
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 BLANCHARD, Rufus (1821-1904)
Blanchard's Guide Map of Michigan
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1873. Folding pocket map, full period hand-colouring. 16pp. publisher's catalogue and ads. Publisher's lettered stiff paper wrappers. Sheet size: 22 x 16 1/2 inches.
Scarce Blanchard guide map of Michigan, in original paper wrappers.
Following the 1871 Chicago fire, Blanchard relocated his shop from Lake Street in the burnt district to nearby Clark Street, and in 1872 began a new series of pocket maps, advertised by him as "Maps in flexible cases with price reduced." His description continues: "For the benefit of those who wish good Maps in a cheap and convenient form, the publisher has issued the following series. Scale, 18 miles to an inch. They show the Counties, Towns and Railroads." Maps of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Missouri were issued in this format at the price of 25 cents, significantly less than his other pocket maps advertised for sale. This series of maps is quite uncommon, no doubt suffering a decreased survival rate from their paper wrappers. This copy of the map with Blanchard's catalogue and advertisement mounted to the inside front wrapper.
#25834$1,000.00
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 BLANCHARD, Rufus (1821-1904)
Guide Map of Chicago
Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1870. Lithographed folding pocket map, full contemporary hand-colouring. Folds into publisher's lettered stiff paper covers. With 12pp. printed street guide titled "Citizen's Guide for the City of Chicago, companion to Blanchard's Map of Chicago". Sheet size: 22 x 17 inches.
Rare street map of Chicago just one year before the fire.
Blanchard's map principally depicts the growing city between Fullerton Avenue in the north and Egan in the south. The pamphlet which accompanies the guide allows for each street to be easily found by means of numbers and letters running along the left and lower margins. A scarce issue of Blanchard's guide and rarely found in such lovely original condition. A scarce ante-fire issue, with OCLC locating only the Clements Library copy.
#25641$1,750.00
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 BRIDGMAN, E. C.
Bridgman's Map of the Suburbs of New York City Embracing the Territory Occupied by the Homes of New York Businessman
New York: [circa 1875]. Folding pocket map, full period hand-colouring. (Flattened, separations at folds repaired). With the original cloth covers, containing 8pp. Index and an ad for Bridgman on the front pastedown. Sheet size: 28 x 21 1/2 inches.
Colourful 19th century pocket map of the New York and New Jersey suburbs, with all the railroad routes into the city shown.
Before the "bridge and tunnel" crowd came the "rail and ferry" commuters. Following the Civil War, a new class of entrepreneurs created a fast growing upper/middle class which began building homes in the suburbs of Westchester and Northern New Jersey. Development of the transportation into the city quickly followed and this map was published by Bridgman for these "New York Businessmen."
This map, on a scale of two and half miles to the inch, depicts the greater metropolitan area, roughly centered on Newark, NJ, as far north as the New York/New Jersey state line, as far south as Freehold, NJ, as far east as Inglewood, NY and as far west as Bedminster, NJ. The lower left corner is distorted out of scale to include Trenton. A profusion of towns are named, along with roads, waterways and some businesses. The area's many railroad lines are prominently shown, with the Westchester lines terminating at the new Grand Central Depot (opened 1871). Although there is no date on the map, it was published circa 1875 based on the fact that Grand Central Depot is named, there are no bridges over the East River and Morrisania is shown as part of New York County.
Haskell, Manhattan Maps 1379 (suggesting a date of 1885)
#25816$750.00
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 [BROMME, Traugott]
Neuste Eisenbahn - Kanal - u Post-Karte fur Reisende in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika Canada, Texas sowie Californien ... Nach J. Calvin Smith, H. S. Tanner [etc.]...
Nurnberg: [circa 1860]. Folding map, dissected into 21 sections and linen-backed as issued, hand coloured in outline. Five inset maps or plans, including a large inset of the American West. Folds into period cloth covers. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches.
Scarce issue of a highly detailed German emigration map showing the routes to the west.
The map depicts the United States as far west as Fort Kearny, with substantial portions of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota shown in detail. As the cartouche suggests, the cartographic information is derived from J. Calvin Smith and H. S. Tanner. Various issues of the map were produced, with varying insets and detail, from 1853 onwards. This map shows Texas divided into counties dated between 1846 and 1852 (Wharton County is shown, but Orange County is not), West Virginia has not yet been separated from Virginia and much of the transcontinental railroad system is still proposed.
Cf. Howes N57; cf. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 775; cf. Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region 274; cf. Phillips p. 903.
#26918$750.00
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 BROWN & PARSONS
Map of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont from the most authentic sources
Hartford: 1838. Engraved folding pocket map, full period hand colouring. Inset of the North Part of Maine. Statistical table. Folds into publisher's black straight grained morocco, covers bordered in gilt, upper cover lettered in gilt. Sheet size: 14 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches.
Beautiful example of Brown and Parsons map of northern New England, here with full contemporary hand-colouring.
The map is a derivative of the earlier Finley/Mitchell map, though with changes. "The part of the map covering northern Massachusetts has been eliminated; statistical tables have been inserted on the right side; and the population statistics are quite different in respect to the 1820 census! One can only speculate whether they 'licensed' the map from Finley or Mitchell or neither" (Rumsey).
Rumsey 2336
#25636$550.00
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