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Map of the United States with the contiguous British & Spanish Possessions.
Melish, John
Map of the United State...
1816
5168.001
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Melish, John
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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.
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5168.001
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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.
Composite: British Empire in America.
Popple, Henry
Composite: British Empi...
1733
2874.002
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Popple, Henry
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(Composite Map of) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto. by Henry Popple. C. Lempriere inv. & del. B Baron Sculp. To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty This Map is most humbly Inscribed by Your Majesty's most Dutiful, most Obedient, and most Humble Servant Henry Popple. London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms & R.W. Seale, 1733.
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2874.002
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A composite of all twenty sheets of the Popple Atlas. Sheets without color.
Map Of Colorado Territory, Shewing The System Of Parks.
Ebert, Frederick J. ; G...
Map Of Colorado Territo...
1865
3509.001
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[Ebert, Frederick J., Gilpin, William, 1822-1894, Monk, Jacob]
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Map Of Colorado Territory, Shewing The System Of Parks. Drawn by Frederick J. Ebert under direction of the Governor Wm. Gilpin. Published by Jacob Monk, Philadelphia, Pa. 1865. Thos. Sinclair's lith. Philada.
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3509.001
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2nd edition. Wheat: "the first 'indigenous' (Colorado) map of importance...a truly imposing map, a credit to all who had a hand in it..." Rare. The 1st edition was published in 1862 with a different title (Map of the Colorado Territory, Embracing the Central Gold Region...) and coloring (it does not emphasize the system of parks) but the same topography and political delineation. This 1865 edition colors the parks in deep blue (they look like water) and the continental divide in bright red and yellow. Ellis lists this map under Monk, has the copyright which was issued in 1862 (when he published the first edition). Streeter mentions that the 1862 edition was the first separate map of Colorado and that it also appeared on a smaller scale (18 miles/inch) as an inset in the huge Pratt and Buell "Map of the Gold Regions in...Colorado Territory" of 1862. Wheat mentions and Phillips lists an 1866 issue of the 1862 map, with J.H. Colton as the publisher. To further complicate matters, our copy of the 1865 edition has covers 16x12 with a printed blue label saying "Monk's Map of Colorado Territory" (barely legible) and a paste down advertisement for "J.H. Colton's Geographical Establishment" on the inside front cover. So Colton was distributing the 1865 edition and then took over publishing the map in 1866. Gilpin wrote "The Central Gold Region" in 1860 with six maps, republished in 1873 with additions and titled "Mission of the American People," which had a map showing the system of parks in manner similar to this map.
Economic Map of Colorado.
Hayden, F.V.
Economic Map of Colorad...
1881
4576.003
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Hayden, F.V.
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Economic Map of Colorado. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, F.V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist in Charge. Sheet III.
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4576.003
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Map in full color showing agricultural, pasture, sage and "bad" lands. Pine forests, cedars and quaking aspen groves are shown. The gold and silver districts are noted.
Louisiane, Cours du Mississipi.
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1...
Louisiane, Cours du Mis...
1718
4764.098
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L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
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Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. Dressee sur un grand nombre de Memoires en trautres sur ceux de Mr. le Maire. Par Guillaume Delisle de l'Academie Rle. des Sciences. A Paris, chez l'Auteur le Sr. Delisle sur le Quay de l'Horloge, avec Privilege du Roy Juin 1718.
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4764.098
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Engraved map in outline color. Shows Indian villages, "nations derangees, nations detruites," the route of de Soto, Moscoso, Cavelier, Tonty and Denis, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Covers area from Lake Champlain to New Mexico and south to Florida and Texas. Inset map: Carte particuliere des embouchures de la Rivie. S. Louis et de la Mobile, i.e., Mississippi Delta area and Mobile Bay. Kohl states this is the mother and main source of all later maps of the Mississippi.
North America.
Wilkinson, Robert
North America.
1804
5156.000
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Wilkinson, Robert
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North America, published the 12th of August 1804. By R. Wilkinson, No.58, Cornhill, London. E. Bourne Sculp.
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5156.000
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First edition. Full color. This beautiful, rare map is the first to show the entire Louisiana Territory as part of the United States, both in the delineated boundaries on the map and in the table showing the possessions of the United States: "Province, Ceded by France 30 Apr. 1803, Louisiana." The Bradley "Map of The United States..." of June 2nd, 1804, is the first map to mention the event: ôThe French call the country West of Conecuh River Louisiana & have ceded it to the United States," but the Bradley map shows only a small portion of Louisiana Territory just west of the Mississippi River. Wilkinson follows Arrowsmith's geography (from his "New Discoveries..." map of 1802) in the Rocky Mountain and the Oregon River areas, but adds new settlements and place names not on Arrowsmith's map along the northwest coast. Franklinia is shown between Tennessee and North Carolina. Wheat trashes the 1824 issue (which is unchanged from the 1804) as hopelessly out of date, but this 1804 issue was not seen by Wheat and is very accurate and forward looking for its period. The large folio General Atlas that this map appeared in is elusive: it is not listed in any references (Phillips lists only Wilkinson's smaller General Atlas issues, even though he refers to one or two issues as folio in size). Wilkinson mentions publishing it in parts, with eleven maps completed by 1808 and thirty five completed by 1823 (noted on the index pages of his quarto General and Classical Atlases of those dates). It seems to be as scarce as this North America map.
Composite: Amerique Septentrionale.
Anville, Jean Baptiste ...
Composite: Amerique Sep...
1763
2603.013
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Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d, 1697-1782
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(Composite of) Amerique Septentrionale. Publiee sous les auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, Premier Prince du Sang. Par le Sr. d'Anville, M DCC XLVI (i.e., 1763?) Avec Privilege. Gravee par Guill? Delahaye. A Paris, chez l'Auteur, aus Galeries du Louvre.
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2603.013
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Engraved map printed on 2 sheets. Boundaries hand col. Shows boundaries of Treaty of 1763 and Ft. Duquesne. Includes geographic notes and inset map of northeastern Canada and a part of Greenland. Relief shown pictorially. Ornamental cartouche: Du dessein du Sr. Gravelot, frere de l'Auteur; grave par le Sr. Major. David Rumsey Collection copy mounted as 2 sheets. Hand numbered 19 and 20 on verso; numbered 10 on index sheet.
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