C21.21  Smith, Charles C.,  Map Of The Oil District Venango, Crawford & Warren Counties Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, J.Sage & Sons, 1860.  Small 4to, blind and gilt stamped cloth, folding lithographed map, 28.5” x 44.5”.  Covers fine, map backed with Japan tissue closing a few fold separations, several light stains along folds from early cello tape, overall very good. Not in Phillips Maps, Streeter, Eberstadt, Graff, Simonetti, Marcou or Hazen & Hazen. $16,500.00
Surveyed and drawn by Charles Smith of Ohio and lithographed by the Buffalo firm of J. Sage & Sons.  Map is comprised of three irregular sections, keyed to each other, forming a strip map of Oil Creek and East Branch Oil Creek to the confluence of the Allegheny River and executed on a scale of 1,200 feet per inch.  Approximately 20 operating wells are shown each denoted by a wooden derrick in perspective along with more than 100 wells in progress identified by circles and cross hairs.  Topography bounding the waterways drawn in hachure with roads, buildings and saw mills clearly drawn as well as private, business and oil company lands prominently named throughout.
An identical map, on a reduced scale of 2,300 feet per inch, was published in 1864 by R.C. Root, Anthony & Company which is generally considered by scholars and historians to be the first commercial map of the Pennsylvania oil regions.  The Root, Anthony map retains the same title, with Smith’s name removed, but presents Smith’s sections as a continuous strip map, printed in an irregular format and folded into covers.An enormously elusive and important map of which only one other copy appears extant at the Carnegie Library.  Very rare.