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Melish, John
Cover: Map, United States wi
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1816
Case Map
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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 |
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Melish, John
Map of the United States wit
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1816
Case Map
| Authors |
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. |
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Melish, John
Cover: United States travell
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1822
Guide Book
| Authors |
Melish, John |
| Full Title |
(Covers to) The traveller's directory through the United States, containing, a description of all the principal roads through the United States ... The whole illustrated by appropriate maps. By John Melish. Philadelphia: Published by the Author. 1822. (on verso) ...on the eighteenth day of September ... 1821, John Melish ... has deposited ... a book ... Pennsylvania. |
| List No |
0501A |
| Note |
Late edition, first edition 1814. Has unusual extra uncolored map not found in earlier editions: "A Diagram of the United States Shewing the Bearings and Distances of the Principal Places from Washington, and from each other, with a Scale of Time." The outline color U.S. map is changed to a version of the U.S. map used in Carey and Lea's American Atlas. Bound in a wallet style holder with original (?) pencil in holder. |
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Melish, John
Title Page: Traveller's dire
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1822
Guide Book
| Authors |
Melish, John |
| Full Title |
(Title Page to) The traveller's directory through the United States, containing, a description of all the principal roads through the United States ... The whole illustrated by appropriate maps. By John Melish. Philadelphia: Published by the Author. 1822. (on verso) ...on the eighteenth day of September ... 1821, John Melish ... has deposited ... a book ... Pennsylvania. |
| List No |
0501B |
| Note |
Late edition, first edition 1814. Has unusual extra uncolored map not found in earlier editions: "A Diagram of the United States Shewing the Bearings and Distances of the Principal Places from Washington, and from each other, with a Scale of Time." The outline color U.S. map is changed to a version of the U.S. map used in Carey and Lea's American Atlas. Bound in a wallet style holder with original (?) pencil in holder. |
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Melish, John
United States of America.
1822
Guide Book
| Authors |
Melish, John |
| Full Title |
United States of America. Compiled from the latest & best authorities by John Melish, 1820. Engraved by Saml. Harrison. Entered ... 10th July 1818, and published by John Melish, Philadelphia, improved to 1822. |
| List No |
0501.001 |
| Note |
Hand col. States, territories and provinces in outline color. Prime meridians: Washington and London. Includes eagle with shield above title by "G. Murray Sc." |
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Melish, John
A diagram of the United Stat
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1822
Guide Book
| Authors |
Melish, John |
| Full Title |
A diagram of the United States shewing the bearings and distances of the principal places from Washington, and from each other, with a scale of time. Prepared for the Travellers directory by John Melish. (Philadelphia: Published by the Author. 1822) |
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0501.002 |
| Note |
Distances in geographical miles. "The scale at bottom below the Scale of Longitude shows the time." |
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James, Edwin, Long, Stephen
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Title Page: Account of an ex
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1823
Exploration Book
| Authors |
James, Edwin, Long, Stephen H. |
| Full Title |
(Title Page to) Account of An Expedition From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820 ... Maps and Plates. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Chesnut Street. 1822. (Accompaniment to) Account of An Expedition From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820...Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party. Compiled by Edwin James ... In Two Volumes. - With An Atlas. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, Chestnut St. 1823. |
| List No |
0343A |
| Note |
Long's map of the great plains and the rivers draining east from the Rocky Mountains was the best depiction done at that time and was used by other map makers (see Carey and Lea atlas). Maps bound separately. Atlas vol is dated 1822, text vols 1823, all as originally issued (see Howes). Both text volumes bound in leather with "Long's First Expedition" and volume number in gilt on spines. Atlas volume rebound with quarter leather and cloth covered boards. Two large maps entitled: "Country drained by the Mississippi Eastern Section" and "...Western Section." |
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James, Edwin, Long, Stephen
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Country drained by the Missi
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1823
Exploration Book
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James, Edwin, Long, Stephen H. |
| Full Title |
Country drained by the Mississippi Eastern Section. (with) Country of the Mississippi. (with) Profile or Vertical Section of the Country on the Parallel of Latitude 38 degrees North. Drawn by S.H. Long Maj. T. Engineers. Engrav'd by Young & Delleker. For the Expedition to the Rocky Mountains Vol. I. |
| List No |
0343.001 |
| Note |
A large uncolored map stretching from Mississippi to Lake Superior. An inset box at top right includes a series of explanations to the symbols on the map. |
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James, Edwin, Long, Stephen
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Country drained by the Missi
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1823
Exploration Book
| Authors |
James, Edwin, Long, Stephen H. |
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Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section. (with) Profile or Vertical Section of the Country on the Parallel of Latitude 38 degrees North. Drawn by S.H. Long Maj. T. Engineers. Engrav'd by Young & Delleker. For the Expedition to the Rocky Mountains Vol. I. |
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0343.002 |
| Note |
Uncolored map showing the region from Arkansas, the Spanish Territory, and north to the Black Hills. |
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James, Edwin, Long, Stephen
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Vertical Section on the Para
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1823
Exploration Book
| Authors |
James, Edwin, Long, Stephen H. |
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Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 41 degrees North intended as a continuation of Maclure's third Section from the sea-shore to the summit of the Alleghenies. (with) Vertical Section on the Parallel of Latitude 35 degrees North intended as a continuation of Maclure's fifth Section. Engrav'd by Young & Delleker. |
| List No |
0343.003 |
| Note |
Uncolored cross sections showing geologic features. |
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James, Edwin, Long, Stephen
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Composite: Country drained b
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1823
Exploration Book
| Authors |
James, Edwin, Long, Stephen H. |
| Full Title |
(Composite Map of) Country drained by the Mississippi Eastern Section (and) Western Section. Drawn by S.H. Long Maj. T. Engineer. Engrav'd by Young & Delleker. |
| List No |
0343.004 |
| Note |
Uncolored composite map. The London edition of Long joins the two maps into one. |
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Beck, Lewis C.
Plan of St. Louis.
1823
Gazetteer Book
| Authors |
Beck, Lewis C. |
| Full Title |
Plan of St. Louis, Including the late Additions. Engraved for Beck's Gazetteer 1822. |
| List No |
4071.002 |
| Note |
Map without color. "Ancient works" including a falling garden and mounds are shown at the right. Other items noted include churches, ports, the jail, the market and the fortification that snakes through the city. |
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Maclure, William
Title Page: Observations on
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1838
Geology Book
| Authors |
Maclure, William |
| Full Title |
(Title Page to) Observations on the Geology of the United States of America, With Some Remarks on the Effect Produced on the Nature and Fertility of Soils, By the Decomposition of the Different Classes of Rocks, And An Application to the Fertility of Every State in the Union, In Reference to the Accompanying Geological Map. With Two Plates. By William Maclure. ... Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Abraham Small ... 1817. (with) Essay On The Formation of Rocks, Or An Inquiry Into the Probable Origin of Their Present Form and Structure. By William Maclure. ... Philadelphia, Printed by John Wilbank ... 1838. |
| List No |
4070A |
| Note |
The title page is dated 1817 and the text is unchanged from the 1817 edition, but the Melish base map is changed from the 1817 edition Melish map to one that shows all of Florida and Missouri and Arkansas (with Arkansas in an 1828 formation). The map is the second state (White 1817B), although it is really an entirely different map. It is similar to the Map of The United States that appears in Melish's Traveler's Guide of 1822 and in Carey and Lea's American Atlas, but it has been reengraved, and the title is changed to United States of North America. It is colored geologically, but there is no color key. The same map appears in the Jackson Wreath of 1829, but in an earlier state. Bound in at the back is the "Essay..." mentioned above. This copy belonged to Francis P. Farquhar, noted California historian. Bound in brown cloth covers with "Geology" printed in gold on the spine. |
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Maclure, William
United States Of North Ameri
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1838
Geology Book
| Authors |
Maclure, William |
| Full Title |
United States of North America. |
| List No |
4070.001 |
| Note |
In full color. The explanation of the color is not given on the map. |
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