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GREENLEAF, Moses (1778-1834)

Map of the State of Maine with the Province of New Brunswick

[Portland]: 1844. Engraved wall map on four sheets by J. H. Young and F. Dankworth, hand-coloured. Relined. (A bit toned as usual, expert restoration at edges). Sheet size: 53 1/2 x 43 inches.

The best wall map of Maine at the time of its publication.

Greenleaf's initial goal was to promote settlement in the interior of Maine. Finding that the available maps were woeful, he set about compiling information for a detailed map of the entire region. The culmination of those efforts was this magnificent map. In the interior, settlements, towns, rivers and lakes are all carefully located. The map shows the entirety of the state, with the counties shaded in various colours. The extensive coastline is very nicely drawn, with many islands, points, and bays identified. Virtually all of New Brunswick is also included on the map, with the far eastern tip and Nova Scotia depicted in an inset. The northern part of the map shows the course of the St. Lawrence River. The scale is about eleven miles to the inch.

Moses Greenleaf has been given a great amount of credit for promoting Maine as an entity separate from Massachusetts, a task he began with his "Map of the District of Maine" in 1815, followed the next year by his first book. After Maine attained statehood in 1820, Greenleaf published a revised map and then began compiling the most up-to-date information for this great wall map, which was first published in 1829. The map was published by Shirley & Hyde of Portland, Maine (who also published Greenleaf's Survey of the State of Maine, with Accompanying Atlas, the same year) but the map was engraved in Philadelphia by Young and Dankworth. This third edition, with improvements, is dated January 1844.

Phillips Maps, pp.384; Ristow, pp.94-96 (for Greenleaf's cartography of Maine).

#23191$7,500.00
 
 
ROGERS, Henry Darwin (1808-1866)

Geological Map of the State of Pennsylvania, constructed from original surveys made during the years 1836 and 1857

Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1858. Chromolithographed map, finished by hand, printed on three sheets joined, dissected into 24 sections and linen-backed at a period date. Sheet size: 38 1/4 x 70 1/2 inches.

A remarkable large-scale, chromolithographed geological map of Pennsylvania at the beginnings of the petroleum industry.

Although petroleum was noted on maps of western Pennsylvania as early as the 1755 Lewis Evans map, the oil industry truly began in August 1859, when Edwin L. Drake drilled his famous well in Titusville. Titusville is located on the present contemporary map, as are the locations of several oil springs.

The Industrial Revolution, the boom in canals and railroads, coupled with the opening of the west, together created a necessity in the mid-19th century for States to conduct geological surveys. Having studied geology in England under De La Beche, Henry Darwin Rogers lectured at the Franklin Institute on the subject in 1834 and served as a professor of geology there from 1835-1846. In 1835 he was chosen to do a geological and mineralogical survey of New Jersey, publishing a report on his findings in 1840. In 1836, Pennsylvania began their own survey -- a process which continued intermittently until 1854 -- and appointed Rogers as the geologist in charge. Appointed with the task of having his report published, Rogers had the report and the present separately issued map printed in Edinburgh, where the printing was less expensive and the colour printing for his map far more advanced. Marcou notes that this period is among the most interesting for geological maps due to the improvements in colour lithography. This colourful and impressive looking map is among the most well produced of this early period.

Marcou, Mapoteca Geologica Americana 282 (in Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey Number 7 [Washington: 1884]); Rumsey 4120; Phillips, p. 683.

#26921$8,500.00
 
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