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Author
Melish, John
Full Title
The World on Mercator's Projection; with all the latest Discoveries. H.S. Tanner sc. Published 1st June 1816 by J. Melish, Philadelphia. Improved to 1820.
List No
4519.003
Note
In outline color. Map includes a guide for computing distance from one place to another. Includes the routes of explorers including Cook and Perouse.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
America. No. IV. (Published 1st June 1816 by J. Melish. Philadelphia. Improved to 1820.)
List No
4519.004
Note
In outline color by country. Map shows all of North, Central and South America. Instructions for computing east and west distances on every parallel of latitude are given.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Europe. No. V. Published 1st June 1816 by J. Melish. Philadelphia. Improved to 1820. J. Vallance sculp.
List No
4519.005
Note
In outline color.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Asia &c. No. VII. (Published 1st June 1816 by J. Melish. Philadelphia. Improved to 1820.) H.S. Tanner Sc.
List No
4519.006
Note
In outline color. Map includes all of Asia as well as Australia and the Polynesian Islands. Instructions for computing east and west distances on every parallel of latitude are given.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Africa. No. VI. (Published 1st June 1816 by J. Melish. Philadelphia. Improved to 1820.) J. Vallance sculp.
List No
4519.007
Note
In outline color by region or country.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
United States. No. VIII. Published 1st June 1816 by J. Melish. Philadelphia. Improved to 1820. J. Melish del.
List No
4519.008
Note
In outline color by state. Each state is numbered and a reference table is included.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
(Covers to) Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest & best Authorities By John Melish. Engraved by J. Vallance & H.S. Tanner. Entered ... 6th day of June 1816. Published by John Melish Philadelphia. (inset) West Indies.
List No
5168A
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest & best Authorities By John Melish. Engraved by J. Vallance & H.S. Tanner. Entered ... 6th day of June 1816. Published by John Melish Philadelphia. (inset) West Indies.
List No
5168.001
Note
With insets of the West Indies and a Statistical Table. This map has the distinction of being the first large scale detailed map made in the U.S. that showed the entire country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This copy is an early state of the first edition -this is Martin's third state of the first edition and Ristow's fourth state (Ristow discovered a town and trail added in Ohio - Adelphi - making for a sub state of Martin's third state). The first state was an incomplete proof copy, making this the second/third state of the completed copy. The differences between this and the first complete state are small: Mansfield, Wooster, and Adelphi (and a trail from Adelphi to Athens and Chillicothe) added in Ohio, and "Vevay or" added before "Swiss Vineyards" in southeastern Indiana. Martin and Ristow identify seven states of the 1816 edition. Melish published new editions in 1818 (five states), 1819 (two states), 1820 (eight states), 1822 (two states), and 1823 (one state) for a total of twenty five different issues. Notwithstanding the many issues, the map has become extremely rare. A book accompanied the map (though issued separately) titled "A Geographical Description of the United States..." (see our #2424). Outline color by state or territory. This copy is dissected into 40 sections, backed with linen, and edged in brown cloth. It folds with marbled end sheets into new blue cloth folding boards and slip case 24.5x16.5 with leather label on spine reading "Melish. Map Of The United States. 1816" in gold.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest & best Authorities By John Melish. Engraved by J. Vallance & H.S. Tanner. Entered ... 6th day of June 1816. Published by John Melish Philadelphia. (inset) West Indies.
List No
5168.002
Note
Composite of dissected map. With insets of the West Indies and a Statistical Table. This map has the distinction of being the first large scale detailed map made in the U.S. that showed the entire country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This copy is an early state of the first edition -this is Martin's third state of the first edition and Ristow's fourth state (Ristow discovered a town and trail added in Ohio - Adelphi - making for a sub state of Martin's third state). The first state was an incomplete proof copy, making this the second/third state of the completed copy. The differences between this and the first complete state are small: Mansfield, Wooster, and Adelphi (and a trail from Adelphi to Athens and Chillicothe) added in Ohio, and "Vevay or" added before "Swiss Vineyards" in southeastern Indiana. Martin and Ristow identify seven states of the 1816 edition. Melish published new editions in 1818 (five states), 1819 (two states), 1820 (eight states), 1822 (two states), and 1823 (one state) for a total of twenty five different issues. Notwithstanding the many issues, the map has become extremely rare. A book accompanied the map (though issued separately) titled "A Geographical Description of the United States..." (see our #2424). Outline color by state or territory. This copy is dissected into 40 sections, backed with linen, and edged in brown cloth. It folds with marbled end sheets into new blue cloth folding boards and slip case 24.5x16.5 with leather label on spine reading "Melish. Map Of The United States. 1816" in gold.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
(Northwestern Part only of) Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the latest & best Authorities by John Melish. Engraved by J. Vallance & H.S. Tanner. Entered ... 16th day of June 1820. Published by James Finlayson Agent Philada. Successor to John Melish, Improved to 1823.
List No
5188.000
Note
This is an unusual survivor - in about 1854 someone cut out the Northwestern one third of John Melish's large Map of the United States (1823 edition) and updated it to show the states, territories and proposed territories of that period, notably Kansas and Nebraska but no Gadsden Purchase, and Shoshone and Dakota (which are usually seen on circa 1858-59 maps). The new boundaries are hand colored with white past down labels for names of states and territories. It might have been used as a school map in the west - we found it in a small town in the California gold country. This portion is dissected into 15 sections mounted on linen with silk edging, and folds down to 23x15.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
(Covers to) Information and Advice to Emigrants to the United States: and from the Eastern to the Western States: Illustrated by A Map of the United States, and A Chart of the Atlantic Ocean. By John Melish. Philadelphia: Printed for and Published by John Melish, No. 121, Chesnut Street. 1819. (on verso) ...on the nineteenth day of June ... 1819, John Melish ... hath deposited ... a book ... Pennsylvania.
List No
5531.001
Note
A first edition containing two maps: "United States" updated to 1818, and a "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean." Both maps without color. General information and advice is given, and a chapter on the English settlement in Illinois is included. Bound in half red morocco leather with rebacked marbled boards with "Melish's Advice to Emigrants" on the spine.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
United States...Improved to 1818
List No
5531.002
Note
A first edition containing two maps: "United States" updated to 1818, and a "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean." Both maps without color. General information and advice is given, and a chapter on the English settlement in Illinois is included. Bound in half red morocco leather with rebacked marbled boards with "Melish's Advice to Emigrants" on the spine.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Chart of the Atlantic Ocean
List No
5531.003
Note
A first edition containing two maps: "United States" updated to 1818, and a "Chart of the Atlantic Ocean." Both maps without color. General information and advice is given, and a chapter on the English settlement in Illinois is included. Bound in half red morocco leather with rebacked marbled boards with "Melish's Advice to Emigrants" on the spine.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Map of Illinois Constructed from the Surveys in the General Land Office and other Documents By John Melish. Saml. Harrison, sct. Entered according to Act of Congress the 16th day of April 1818. Philadelphia. Published by John Melish. Improved to 1820.
List No
5537.000
Note
Melish, in his first edition of "A Geographical Description of the United States," (1816) wrote of his plans to publish a series of sheet maps on a uniform scale that would form an atlas of the United States. He reiterated this plan in the 2nd and 3rd editions of the "Geographical Description" and expanded upon it in "A Geographical Description of the World" in 1818. According to Ristow, this plan to publish the maps at the same scale was "a new and revolutionary idea that facilitated size comparisons." Indiana was the first to be published in 1817. Tennessee was published in 1817. The Illinois map followed in 1818, with an "improved" edition in 1819. No mention is made in any sources of this map, "improved to 1820." Alabama was completed in 1818, Mississippi in 1819, and Louisiana in 1820. Only these six maps were completed before Melish died in 1822. A copy of the 1818 Illinois map is held at the Library of Congress. The 1819 map is held at the Newberry Library and the National Archives. No copy of the 1820 edition has been mentioned in the references. The map is in outline color by county with township and survey lines shown.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Northern section of the United States including Canada &c. by John Melish. 1816. Grav. af C.F. Himberg. (Stockholm: Stente af C. Muller, 1824)
List No
5757.001
Note
Hand colored engraved map. Shows state boundaries, settlements, roads with distances, etc. Includes "Statistical table." Prime meridians: London and Washington.
Author
Melish, John
Full Title
Southern section of the United States including Florida &c. by John Melish. 1816. (Stockholm: Stente af C. Muller, 1824)
List No
5757.002
Note
Hand colored engraved map. Shows states, settlements, distances along major roads, etc. Includes "Statistical table." Includes inset of "Bermudas." Prime meridians: London and Washington.
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