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Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Ohio. Phila., Carey & Lea, 1823. 12" x 9.7", full color. Condition is very good+, with professional centerfold repair and light offsetting from early botanical pressing. $275.00 Most likely originating from the 1823 2nd edition of Carey & Lea's significant American Atlas. 59 of today's 88 counties have been organized, each brightly colored. The northwest border remains undefined and is shown here terminating at the boundary claimed by Michigan.. An excellent copper engraved map of the state, drawn by Fielding Lucas Jr. and printed on a 17" x 22" sheet with descriptive letterpress at three sides. A desirable map which is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Rref: Phillips(A) 3660, 4464.
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique Du Missouri. Jean Buchon, 1825. Fully colored engraving, 11.5” x 9.5” on sheet with flanking letterpress at three sides. Fine condition. Ref: Phillips(A) 1176. $300.00 A beautifully colored example of this early map showing the young state of Missouri with its borders as defined by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Settlement is limited to the few eastern counties formed by this date and sparse locations along the Missouri River. Howard, Pike and Cooper Counties encompass about 2/3rds of the state. A fine “western” map issued in Buchon’s 1825 French edition of Carey & Lea’s American Atlas.
Map Showing the Disputed Boundary of Missouri and Iowa. Albert M. Lea, 1839. Uncolored lithograph, 17.7" x 28.5", contained in disbound 24pp. House Doc 128, additional folding detail map. Removed from a larger volume, scattered foxing, about very good or better overall. $125.00 Albert Miller Lea's detailed report concerning surveys to ascertain the official boundary between Missouri and Iowa. This heated dispute nearly came to blows in 1839 when both Missouri and Iowa ordered militia to enforce their respective claimed border. The dispute was settled by the Supreme Court in 1849, where the east-west line surveyed in 1816 by John Sullivan to mark the lands ceded by the Osage Indians was utilized and extended to the Missouri River. The map cited shows the four lines claimed at the time by various parties, including that line surveyed by Sullivan, as well as the western lands annexed to Missouri in 1836. Accompanying these documents is a 10.5" x 18" folding map showing the Osage boundary as surveyed in 1816. An earlier and more complete example than that described in Graff. Ref: Claussen & Friis 300, 301; Graff 4383; Paullin p.80 & Pl.98c.
Neueste Karte Von Missouri. J. Meyer, 1845. Outline color engraving, 14.5" x 11.7". Nicely toned overall, very good or better. Not listed in Phillips(A),(M); LeGear(US); Ristow(MM); Sabin or Howes. $175.00 An attractive and well balanced presentation of the state, derived from Tanner, issued in an apparently unrecorded early edition of Meyer's Handatlas. Table of Steam Ship Routes (text in German) from St. Louis to various locations. Quite scarce.
Anon, Ohio . Cincinnati , Henry Howe, 1848. Engraving, outline color, 10.5” x 13”, folds. Toned overall, repaired tear at binding stub, left margin trimmed to neatline, good or better. $75.00 Small map of the state lacking attribution, though in the style of Greenleaf or Burr, from the second edition Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio. Colored in outline by county. Ref: New Howes H-705; Sabin 33299.
Map of Iowa. NY, Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning, 1855. Separate issue, fully colored lithograph, 18.2" x 21.7". Trimmed to border as issued, very clean and bright. Not in Phillips(M). $425.00 Much improved over the previous year with the addition of Woodbury, Calhoun and Webster counties while retaining the highly decorative border and 1850 population table. A rather scarce map of the state from this short lived collaboration of lithographers.
A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads & Distances. Charles DeSilver, 1856/57. Fully colored lithograph, 14.2" x 11.2". Fine. $150.00 A rather scarce variant of the Michigan map appearing in earlier editions of Mitchell's Universal Atlas. DeSliver's acquisition of publishing rights in 1856 followed a rather lengthy run of this this title and likely led to rather slow sales. As a result, DeSilver imprints are rather scarce and seem more so in recent years. For this edition, DeSilver added a new grillework style border and a new title. Nearly pristine condition exhibiting bright wash and outline color. Ref: Phillips(A) 4336, Karpinski 161.
Railroad & Township Map of the State of Ohio. Anon., ca.1870-75. 23" x 23", full color. Very good+ condition, overall very clean and bright, few short separations repaired, folded as issued.. $150.00 Exceptionally detailed and colorful map, possibly attributed to a Ohio county atlas by D.J. Lake. State and county borders are outlined in red while townships are named and individually colored within borders. Operating and constructing railroads are shown along with canals, post roads and a profusion of place names. Very attractive with large decorative titling and a 4.5" x 7" vignette of the capitol building at Columbus, all within a grapevine style border. Quite similar to J.H. Colton's 1852 map of the same title. Ref: Phillips(M) pp.630-33
Map of Missouri Printed for the Railroad Commissioners to Accompany Their Report for 1885. Chicago, H.R. Page, 1875/85. Lithograph, wash color, 19" x 21", folds as issued. Few short marginal fold splits, overall very clean and bright, nearly fine. Not in Phillips(M) or Modelski(NA)(US). $75.00 Very attractive map of the state with crisp hand color by county, originally accompanying an unidentified report to the Missouri Railroad Commissioners. The Page firm was certainly overshadowed by Rand,McNally and Cram at this time, however this fine map is much more visually appealing than the competitors publications at this late date.