Primitive Pieces
Rare Maps, Atlases, Books & Prints
~ New Maps ~
Superb Manuscript Collection
C21.3
[Manuscript Archive] Pennsylvania Anthracite Region. Pen, ink and
watercolor on paper and linen, various sizes though mostly 20” x 30” or
larger, 1818 – 1877, Condition varies but mostly very good to nearly fine
overall. $14,000.00
A striking collection of twelve manuscript county and township maps
recording in superb detail the birth of the great anthracite coal boom
that fueled the American Industrial Revolution.. Two maps record the
efforts of John Dreher which were undoubtedly used in the construction of
Samuel Fishers monument 1836 Map of the First and Second Anthracite
Fields.( See Item C21.6). John Dreher was an engineer and surveyor,
and aided in developing the great coal fields of Schuylkill and also in
settling the early land titles relative to many local estates. - Munsell
History of Schuylkill County.
C21.4 Melish, John Map of Pennsylvania, Constructed from the County Surveys authorized by the STATE; and other original Documents by John Melish. Phila., Benjamin Tanner, 1822/1826. Linen backed wall map on rods, six joined sheets, engraving with outline color, 49” x 73”. Edges a bit ragged, few very minor losses at top, upper right corner repaired with discrete waterstain, bright color, very good or better overall. $9,500.00
A Monumental
19th Century American Thematic Map
C21.6
Fisher, Samuel B. Map of the First And Second Anthracite Coal Fields.
Samuel B. Fisher, Pottsville, 1836. First edition, 32 segments on
original linen with marbled outer panels, lithograph with outline color,
45” x 86”. Some toning and soiling, several folds reinforced on verso
with modern linen tape, overall nearly fine or better. Not in Phillips
Maps, Marcou or Eberstadt. $3,200.00
An extraordinary example of early 19th century regional
industrial cartography and likely the first American work of its kind in
both subject and scope. Fisher’s monumental map became the basis for many
subsequent editions through to the 20th century with three
copies of this first edition being located.
DETAILS
Important Early Pennsylvania Manuscript
C21.2
[Manuscript, Untitled] Township of Willksbarr [sic] and Vicinity.
Anon, n.d. but c.1800-1802. Four joined sheets on linen, pen, ink and
watercolor on mould-made paper, 40.5” x 30.5”. Some staining and light
browning, few small losses, overall very good or better.A document of
fascinating historical significance concerning Wilkes-Barre, PA and
surrounding areas of Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties. $7,500.00
In 1666 King Charles II granted charter to the Connecticut colony to
certain lands in America including the Wyoming Valley Pennsylvania.
Ironically, King Charles II also granted charter in 1681 of Wyoming Valley
lands to William Penn as repayment of royal debt to Penn’s father which
included the Manor of Stoke and the Manor of Sunbury resulting in
overlapping of lands between the two charters.
C21.1
[North Missouri Railroad]
Report of the Board Of
Directors Of The North Missouri Railroad Company To The Stockholders, Made
first Monday of April, 1866.
St. Louis, George Knapp & Company, 1866. 8vo, wraps,, 114pp, large
folding colored map, ex-library. Perforation stamp on title page, few
discrete rubberstamps, wraps soiled and chipped, internally clean and
tight, map clean and bright with several closed fold separations, very
good overall. Not in Sabin, Howes, Streeter, Eberstadt, Phillips Maps
or Modelski. $1,250.00
Rare and engaging report consisting of lengthy and detailed narratives
relative to the operation, construction and future growth of the North
Missouri Railroad. Large and superb map by the Colton firm.
C21.5 Webster, James
Map of the United States. NY, James Webster, 1835. Linen backed
wall map, engraving with wash and outline color, (3) three sheets joined,
22” x 30.5”. Varnish toned with scattered small losses, lacking rods,
about very good overall. Not in Phillips, Wheat, Ristow, Rumsey,
Eberstadt. $2,500.00
Webster’s rare Traveler’s Guide map with a freshly engraved sheet adding
geography extending to the Pacific with vignettes at right and an
additional newly engraved sheet of historical vignettes at bottom.
DETAILS
C21.8 Phelps,
Humphrey Ornamental Map of the United States. NY, Humphrey
Phelps, 1846 / 1847. Broadside, 1st edition second state,
cerograph with wash and outline color, 28” x 21” overall, map 13.7” x
19”. Lightly toned, 2 marginal chips not affecting border, few small
repairs, bright color, very good or better overall. $2,200.00
The first 1847 edition of this decorative and popular series first issued
by Phelps in 1846, again in 1847 and subsequently through 1851 by Ensign &
Thayer. This copy lacking the
statistical tables in the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico which first
appear on the 2nd edition, also by Phelps and dated 1847. The
southwest shows a large Texas Republic with New Mexico being named but not
fully delineated. Oregon extends to the 49th parallel
however, this copy colored to include Vancouver Island as part of Oregon.
Ref: Wheat Trans-Mississippi 551
C21.9 Mitchell, S.A.
[North America] Revised & Improved No. 2 Mitchell’s Series Of Outline
Maps For The Use of Academies & Schools. Hartford & Utica, O.D. Case &
Co. & John W. Fuller & Co., 1841/1848. Linen backed broadsheet on linen,
cerograph with wash color, 29” x 24”. Light soiling, faint dampstains,
edge binding and brass rings intact, very good or better. $475.00
An excellent example of the simple yet effective teaching aid series maps
produced by the Mitchell firm, intended to accompany their School
Geography text volumes.
Examples of maps from this series are quite scarce as they have not
survived due to their limited aesthetic and geographic value. This copy
encompassing North America to the 80th parallel and colored in
wash by political boundaries with educational details alpha-numerically
annotated denoting corresponding features contained in the geography
text. Carries a Mitchell copyright notice of 1841 along with another of
J.H. Mather & Co. 1848. Amusingly a bibliographic labyrinth of
contemporary map publishers.
C21.10
Colton, J.H. Colton’s New Illustrated Map of The World On Mercator’s
Projection. NY, J.H. Colton, 1851/1855. Linen backed wall map on
rods, 2 sheets joined, 31” x 42.5”, wash and outline color, very lightly
toned, very good or better. $750.00
Reduced version of Colton’s mammoth world map. Engraved border by W.S.
Barnard depicting 12 scenes from around the globe.
C21.11 Kimber,
Thomas Rail Road Map of the Southern States Shewing The Southern &
Southwestern Railway Connections With Philadelphia. Phila., Thomas
Kimber Jr., 1862. First edition, 6 segments on original linen with
marbled outer panels, lithograph with wash and outline color, 30.5” x
52”. Not in Phillips Maps, Modelski or Stephenson Civil War.
$2,800.00
Very rare and important Railroad map being the true first edition, first
state of the more widely recognized and later Willis Hazard map.
DETAILS
C21.12
Barnes, R.L. A New County Map of Pennsylvania And Adjoining States
Showing The Route of the Railroads Etc. Phila., R.L. Barnes,
1857/63. Pocket map, 18mo gilt stamped cloth, fully colored lithograph,
25” x 36.5”. Fine crisp condition. $650.00
C21.13 Bancroft, H.H.
Bancroft’s Map of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. San
Francisco, H.H. Bancroft & Co., 1863/64. First thus, Pocket map, 18mo gilt
and blindstamped cloth, folding lithograph with full wash color, 32” x
36”. Few discreet fold separations, overall an exceptionally clean and
bright copy with vibrant color. Not in Phillips Maps, Eberstadt,
Graff, Soliday or Rosenbach. $3,800.00
Very scarce first edition, presumed second state of this superb map.
Overwhelmingly precise detail of the delineated area being derived from
Bancroft’s earlier and larger map of the Western States.
This copy bearing the 1863 California copyright notice with an
advertisement or “J.H. Colton’s Maps & Atlases” on the front pastedown. A
fine production displaying a nearly overwhelming amount of information.
Ref: Wheat Trans-Mississippi 1093
C21.14 Bufford, J.H.
Plan of Lagoon Heights, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Boston, J.H. Bufford, ,1873. Tinted lithograph, 25.7” x 34”. Fine
condition. $550.00
An exceptional real estate promotional for this planned community offering
949 building lots on prestigious Martha’s Vineyard, lithographed by J.H.
Bufford. James Bufford’s
mastery of the art of lithography is here very well displayed, most
notably in the vignettes. A pastoral view of the Lagoon appears in a
vertical format along the left margin and is accompanied by two wonderful
displays of Victorian architecture, each complete with happy homeowners.
The depth and clarity of lithography is quite remarkable and most unusual
for such an ephemeral item. Of Bufford’s work, Harry Peters writes – “his
importance can be seen, and his contribution to Americana is in the first
rank”. Bufford worked for Nathaniel Currier in New York and later at
his own Boston establishment had as an apprentice the great American genre
painter Winslow Homer.
Ref: Peters America on Stone pp.118-127
C21.15
Van Derveer, L., Scattergood’s Map of Sixteen Miles Around
Philadelphia. Phila., Scattergood & Van Derveer, 1876.
Narrow 8vo, cloth, linen backed map, lithographed with wash color by
township, 34” x 32”. Front cover reattached, map very clean and
bright, about nearly fine overall. $650.00
Undoubtedly a centennial edition of Van Derveer’s lovely circular map of
the city first published in 1852 by Robert Pearsall Smith, after J.C.
Sidney’s 1847 map (see dust jacket illustration, Ristow Maps and
Mapmakers). Embellished
with vignettes of Independence Hall and Girard College. Contains also a
list of Places of Interest and Steam Railroad Depots.
Ref: Phillips Maps p.708
C21.16 Stoifier, E.
Fourth Of July Centennial Anniversary / New and Improved Map of the City
of Philadelphia Showing Fairmount Park With Its Drives And Walks, Wards,
Public Squares & Cemeteries, &c, &c. Phila., T. R. Callender & Co.,
1872 / 1876. Broadsheet, lithograph with wash color, 38” x 27”. Backed
with Japan tissue, few small holes filled, soft creases, overall very
good. Not in Phillips Maps or Simonetti. $450.00
A large illustrated “Centennial Edition” of Stoifier’s excellent map of
Philadelphia, colored by ward and public lands and lithographed by H.J.
Toudy. Shows Philadelphia and surrounding boroughs with vignettes of
Independence Hall, Old State House 1776, View Up the
Schuylkill River, Union League House and Hemlock Glen on
the Wissahickon [creek]. Typical of large ephemeral maps, few copies
of this edition seem to have survived as only a copy at the Library
Company of Philadelphia has thus far been found. Incidentally, only a few
Philadelphia maps by Stoifier / Callender are recorded between 1872 and
1884
C21.17 Colton, G.W. &
C.B Colton’s New Railroad Map of the United States & Canada. NY,
G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1871 / 1879. Pocket Map, 16mo, gilt embossed
cloth, lithograph map with wash and outline color, 30.5” x 35.5”. Front
cover with minor loss at top edge, few very lightly toned folds, otherwise
crisp with bright color, very good+. Not in Phillips Maps or
Modelski $700.00
A later and most uncommon edition of Colton’s series of Railroad and
Commercial maps of the United States. Embraces the continental US and
includes northern Mexico and southern Canada. Western states and
territories are almost fully developed with the exception of a singular
Dakota Territory and the Oklahoma panhandle being labeled Public Lands. A
plethora of transportation routes are depicted including several spur
lines completed at the date of publication. Three large insets appear,
all bearing an 1861 copyright notice of J.H. Goldthwait, showing New
England Railroads, Railroads for the Mid Atlantic Ports to the Mississippi
River and a North Polar Projection. Includes also a Comparative Table
of the Principal Itinerary Measures Used In Different Countries.
C21.17 Anon Map
Of New York Compiled by Parry M’F’G Co. Buggy Manufacturers Indianapolis,
Ind. Indianapolis, Wm. B. Burford,
c.1880. Full color lithographed broadsheet, brass and wooden rods, 27” x
28”. Some small margin chips in upper right otherwise very clean and
bright, about fine overall. $550.00
All in all a fine lithograph by William Burford targeting potential New
York State carriage buyers, compliments of the H.A. Odell firm then of
Edmonton, NY. Quite nicely
illustrated with two carriage examples and a birds-eye-view of the Parry
production facility located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Shows also an inset
map of Long Island. This example very clean and well preserved maintaining
the original rods. An attractive example of Victorian promotional
advertising employing cartography as a visual medium.
C21.18 Ide,
Arthur W. Ide’s Map of Helena Montana. Helena, Williams, Thurber
& Co., 1888. Pocket map, stiff printed wraps, folding lithographed map in
colors. Few very small fold intersection breaks, lightly toned overall,
overall about fine. $875.00
Fine plat map of Helena compiled and drawn by Helena surveyors Reeder &
Helmick on a scale of 300 feet per inch and published in Minneapolis for
Arthur Ide by Harrison & Smith.
Fascinating cartographic item
given that the city of Helena contained more millionaires per capita than
any other U.S. city at this date. This copy issued compliments of Wallace
& Thornburgh Real Estate Agents who claim to be “…exclusive agents of
most of the North and East side Additions…” Ide also published a
map of Missoula, Montana in 1891. Both productions appear to be rather
scarce. Not in Eberstadt, Soliday, Streeter or Phillips.
C21.19
Spaulding, J.R. Spaulding’s Indexed Great Republic Map A New
Illustrated County, Rail Road and Distance and Time Map of the United
States and Dominions of Canada Compiled From the Latest Government Surveys.
Boston, J.R. Spaulding & Co., 1891. Linen backed wall map on rods,
lithograph with manually applied highlight color, 39” x 56”. Several
clean vertical tears at top closed, two small areas of facsimile, despite
the conservation very clean and bright with arresting garish color, an
unusually fine copy of this scarce illustrated map. Not in Philips
Maps $1,900.00
A beautiful copy of a very desirable and highly decorative United States
wall map. This late edition similar to earlier ones having an illustrated
world map printed on the verso.
DETAILS
C21.20
Kearfott, J. Baker Map of Berkely County West Virginia. Phila.,
E.P.Knoll, 1894. 12mo gilt stamped cloth, two (2) unjoined lithograph map
sheets, each 19” x 34”, very brightly colored in wash and outline. Fine
overall. Not in Phillips Maps or Roberts & Bloomer. $500.00
Striking West Virginia county map constructed on a scale of 1 ½” per mile
and showing fine detail. Shows fine detail of land owners, roads, rail
lines and general topographic features.
Highly Important & Seminal Oil Region Map - 1860
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. $16,500.0
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.
DETAILS
Rare Early Map of the Canada Oil Fields
C21.22 Ellis, John
Jr., Ellis’ New Map of the Canada Oil Lands, Pocket Edition.
Toronto, J. Ellis, 1866. 16mo, oblong stiff blue printed wraps, folding
lithographed map, 24” x 17”. Covers and map clean and crisp, about fine.
Not in Phillips Maps, Eberstadt, Streeter, Marcou, Hazen & Hazen or
TPL Bibliography of Canadiana. John Ellis Jr. not listed in Tooley
Dictionary. $800.00
A most interesting and important early sectional map of the Canadian oil
region in Ontario centered on Oil Springs P.O. where petroleum is claimed
to have been struck in 1858. This revised edition was likely issued by
Ellis in response to the oil boom at Petrolia in 1865.
An 1865 advertisement for Ellis’ maps
indicate the “pocket edition” was issued to provide ready reference,
showing the whole of the County of Lambton, the principal oil district and
taken from his larger Complete Map of the Canada Oil Lands also
issued in 1865. This map like the larger issue constructed on a scale of
200 chains per inch. A single copy of Ellis’ large map located at
McMaster University Library, no copies of this “pocket edition” located.
Quite rare.
C21.23 Ames, Daniel
T. Centennial The Course Of Empire Westward Takes Its Way. NY,
James Miller, 1876. Broadsheet. two-stone lithograph, 24” x 37”. Fine
condition. $1,800.00
Perhaps the most elaborate and arresting Centennial image published, being
an incredible collage of stylistic and historical images. Ames was a
master calligrapher, author of several noted works on artistic penmanship
and founder of The Penman’s Art Journal.
C21.24 Tyler,
Benjamin Owen In Congress July 4th 1776 Unanimous
Declaration of the thirteen United States of America. NY, Thayer &
Colton, n.d., c.1860. Linen backed broadsheet on rods, lithograph with
colored decorative border, 41” x 27”. Lightly toned overall, three small
holes at bottom right with marginal loss at bottom right, overall very
good or better. $2,500.00
Very scarce reissue of Tyler’s superb facsimile of the Declaration of
Independence engraved by Peter Maverick.. Large vignette of the signing
by Lossing & Barrett.
C21.25 Tait, A.F.
The Pursuit. NY, Currier & Ives, 1856. Broadsheet, 2-stone
lithograph with full hand color and gum highlighting, 19” x 25.5”. Some
very light browning from earlier matting, narrow right and left margins,
rich color, very good or better. $4,500.00
A wonderful stylized western scene depicting a trapper and Native American
on horseback engaged in a deadly chase.
C21.26 Moyer, James
B. Moundsville West Virginia. Meyerstown, James B. Moyer, 1899.
Broadsheet, two stone lithograph, 19” x 25”. Backed with Japanese tissue,
few closed marginal tears, 1” x 3” area below title browned from old tape,
overall quite clean and bright, very good or better. $500.00
Charming birds-eye view of this panhandle town named for the many area
Adena Indian burial mounds, one of which is prominently depicted downtown
between 9th and 10th streets. Includes seven
vignettes of notable buildings and a 20 item key. Drawn by A.E. Downs and
looking southwest across the Ohio River.
Ref: Reps Views 4227 (LOC copy only in the Fowler Collection;
Hebert Panoramic Maps 1001 (same copy)
C21.27
Mayer, Ferd Newark (East Of Mulberry 1820-25). NY, Ferdinand
Mayer, n.d. but after 1854. Lithographed broadsheet, 28” x 20” with wide
margins. Upper left margin with ½” x 6” chip extending from the corner,
light marginal stain in lower right corner, very good or better overall.
Presently housed in a contemporary ebonized frame. $650.00
A fine historical view of Newark published by Mayer after 1854 as
evidenced by the publisher’s address. Depicts the city as a bucolic
comprised mostly of pasture and farms. Peters – America On Stone
comments that Mayer’s work is above average, this view is no exception as
the lithography is quite fine.
Ref: Stokes American
Historical Prints p.108 F-22; Reps Views 2370
C21.28 Bailey, O.H.
Lewisburgh. Pennsylvania. Boston, O.H. Bailey & Co., 1884.
Broadsheet, two stone lithograph, 19.5” x 24”. Few faint dampstains,
short marginal tear. Very good or better overall. $600.00
Fine view by the Bailey firm with Bucknell University [Lewisburgh
University], established in 1847, prominently shown in upper left.
Includes five vignettes of local business and a 24 item key. Reps notes
only two copies, one at Boston Public Library and the other at the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Ref: Reps Views 3480;
Hebert Panoramic Maps 796.1 (Photostat)