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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
 
 
COLTON, George W. (1827-1901)

New Guide Map of the United States & Canada. With Railroads, Counties Etc.

New York: Colton, & Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1861. Period color, 30¼ x 34¾ inches, folding into gilt-stamped dark brown cloth covers. Fine condition.

Not in Rumsey

#3120$1,500.00
 
 
COLTON, J.H.

Colton's Map of the United States the Canadas &C. Showing the Rail Roads, Canals & Stage Roads with Distances from Place to Place

New York: Colton, 1855. Period outline color, 26¼ x 29 inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Near fine condition.

The primary map extends as far west as central Texas. Texas' first railroad is shown (from Galveston to Houston). There is an inset "Map of New England and Eastern New York." Not in Rumsey.

#3121$1,500.00
 
 
COLTON, J.H. (1800-1893)

Colton's Map of the United States the Canadas &c. Showing the Rail Roads, Canals & Stage Roads with Distances from Place to Place

New York: Colton, 1853. Folding pocket map, period hand-colouring in outline. Insets of New England, the continental U.S. and the Isthmus of Panama. Folds into publisher's blindstamped cloth covers, title stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Sheet size: 27 x 31 1/2 inches.

Scarce pocket map of the U.S. with beautiful period colouring.

This scarce Colton map shows the U.S. as far west as the Great Plains, including much of eastern Texas. Published in 1853, neither Kansas nor Nebraska are named, though the east halves of those territories are shown. The map is quite detailed with many cities and towns identified and numerous railroads crossing the country, extending as far west as Missouri. The Santa Fe trail is shown, as are the locations of many Indian tribes. First published in 1850, this 1853 issue shows significant additions, particularly as relates to the railroads.

Rumsey 0172 (1852 issue)

#25821$1,500.00
 
 
MITCHELL, S. Augustus

Mitchell's National Map of the American Republic of United States of North America. Together with Maps the Vicinities of Thirty-Two of The Principal Cities and Towns of the Union

Philadelphia: Mitchell, 1843. Engraved map, with full original colour, 24¼ x 33½ inches, with a secondary folding sheet measuring 25¼ x 34¾ inches, with lengthy table of statistics from the 1840 census, surrounded by thirty-two insets of American cities. Gilt-stamped black leather covers with brass clasp.

First pocket edition of an important map of the United States. The map was also published in the same year as a wall map on rollers, surrounded by the thirty-two inset maps of American cities, that here are found on a separate sheet. As with all of Mitchell's early maps of the United States, the main map extends no further west than the 95th meridian (eastern Texas). Two insets are "Map of the North-Eastern boundary of the United States According to the Treaty of 1842" and "Map of the Southern part of Florida." There is a "Population Table based on the Census of 1840" in the lower left. Rumsey lists editions of 1843, 1846, 1848 and 1850 in a wall map format, but no subsequent pocket map versions.

Rumsey Collection: 2290. Streeter Sale (1967), 3861. Ristow, American Maps & Mapamkers, p.310 (ref)

#3134$2,750.00
 
 
MITCHELL, S. Augustus

Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States, Containing the Principal Cities, Towns, &C. Alphabetically Arranged; Together with the Stage, Steam-Boat, Canal, and Railroad Routes…Illustrated by an Accurate Map of the United States

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co.,, 1836 [i.e. 1845]. 78pp. plus large folding map: Young, J.H.: "Mitchell's Traveller's Guide Through the United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes &c." Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1845. To left of title: "Sold by Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co. No. 253 Market St." Period outline color, 17 x 21 inches. Eight insets. 16mo. Gilt-stamped red leather covers. Minor repairs.

The inset, "Vicinity of New Orleans," has been removed so that the new Territory of Iowa can be included.

#3135$750.00
 
 
MITCHELL, S. Augustus (publisher) - J. H. YOUNG

Mitchell's Travellers Guide Through the United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1833. Engraved folding map, period hand-colouring in outline. Nine inset maps. Large folding Index sheet. Folds into publisher's black morocco covers, covers bordered in gilt, title stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Sheet size: 17 5/8 x 22 1/8 inches.

Near mint copy of Mitchell's Travellers Guide, with the large map of the U.S.

The map, with the borders of the states brightly colored, shows the Northeast, west to Missouri Territory and part of Mexico, including the Great Lakes region, and south through part of Florida. Insets show the vicinities of Niagara, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Albany, New York, Baltimore and Washington, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Boston. The large folding Index sheet includes much information on steamboat and canal routes, and various statistics. This copy in pristine condition. This is the second edition, preceded only by that of 1832.

Rumsey 4374; Howes M690; Clark III:74; Graff 4790

#25755$1,000.00
 
 
TARDIEU, Pierre François

United States of N[or]th. America; carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Copiée et Gravée sur celle d'Arrowsmith. Corrigée et considérablement augmentée d'après les renseignements les plus authentiques par P.F. Tardieu, Graveur, Editor-propriétaire

Paris: Tardieu, 1808. Engraved map with period outline hand colouring, on four folded sheets, each dissected into 60 sections and linen-backed, as issued, with the original chemise and box. Fine condition. Sheet size: together 50 x 57 3/4 inches.

An extraordinary copy of a rare, separately-issued, French edition of one of the great large-scale maps of the early United States: this issue the first to name Michigan Territory.

Based on the first state of Aaron Arrowsmith's map of the same name, Tardieu's improved edition depicts the United States as it began to expand into its continental destiny. In addition to the content presented from Arrowsmith's map, Tardieu made corrections to the mouth of the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence River and Maine. He also added an inset version of Andrew Ellicott's Plan for the City of Washington.

By 1808, the new states of Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio had been added to the original thirteen. Even as the new settlers poured into these areas, new territories were being organized. This updated edition from the first of 1802 reflects those changes. The most noteworthy change is the addition of Michigan Territory, which was organized in June 1805, making this one of the earliest appearances of Michigan Territory on a printed map. The map also names Indiana Territory and notes the early township surveys in Ohio. The detail in the Upper Mississippi River Valley is also of note.

Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.876; Karpinski, Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan p. 207.

#24853$10,000.00
 
 
UNITED STATES - SCHOYER, Solomon

Map of the United States Drawn from the Most Approved Surveys

New York: Solomon Schoyer, 1826. Engraved folding pocket map, period hand colouring in outline, engraved by G. W. Merchant, Albany. Large vignette of the American Eagle seal. Folds into original stiff orange boards, lettered in gilt on the upper cover. (Minor browning, ink stain on the wrappers). Sheet size: 16¼ x 20¼ inches.

Early American pocket map of the United States as far west as the Rockies.

Extends west to the Rocky Mountains, with a vast Missouri Territory encompassing much of the west; the Northwest Territory spreads northward above Illinois; Arkansas Territory extends west into what was to become Indian Territory and later Oklahoma; Texas is named, but is depicted as part of Mexico. "This appears to be a direct (but slightly reduced) copy of Finley's map of the United States that was published in pocket form and in his American Atlas of 1826" (Rumsey).

Rumsey 2201; Graff 3706.

#25642$800.00
 
 
WILLIAMS, C. S.

Map of the United States constructed from the latest authorities

New York: C.S. Williams, 1833. Engraved folding pocket map, period hand-colouring in outline, statistical table in lower left corner. Folding index sheet. Folds into publisher's cloth-backed paper boards, titled on upper cover "Williams' Travellers' Directory...". (Boards worn, some repaired separations at folds). Sheet size: 16 3/8 x 21 5/8 inches.

Scarce map depicting the U.S. as far west as the Rockies.

This small "Travellers Directory" (as it is titled on the upper cover) was evidently issued in competition to Mitchell's similar guide of the same year. The two guides are quite similar in terms of format (folding sheets of tables facing a folding map), but the map in the present guide extends significantly farther west, i.e. to present-day Arizona in the southwest (with the Gila River named) and present-day Idaho in the northwest (with Lake Wayton, i.e. Lake Coeur d'Alene, named). Longs and James Peaks are both named, as well as the apocryphal River Buenaventura. Texas is shown as Mexico, although is named as the area along the Gulf Coast of eastern Mexico from Galveston to the Sabine River. The map is generally similar in appearance to Melish's 1822 map of the U.S., but with significant differences in nomenclature. Williams would later jointly publish the maps of Texas and Mexico in Mitchell's New Universal Atlas of 1846.

Streeter Sale 3847. Not in Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West.

#25845$1,500.00
 
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