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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)

[Great Lakes] Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada

Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 21 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches.

A very fine edition of Bellin's map, and one of the most important maps of the Great Lakes

This important map depicts the Great Lakes as they appeared in the years immediately before the Seven Years War, and significantly, it "constituted the first new material pertaining to New France to appear since the maps of Guillaume de L'Isle three decades earlier" (Heidenreich & Dahl). The present map represents the edition published by the esteemed firm, Homann Heirs as part of their Atlas Maior. It is closely derived from Bellin's 1745 first state of the map. A curious aspect of the map is its foreshortened rendering of Pennsylvania and New York. While this map evinces the latest in French knowledge of the region, it curiously places many fictitious islands, most notably "Ile Philippeaux" in Lake Superior. The land is still shown to be the domain of various native nations, including the "Pays des Iroquois" and the "Pays de Miami," and features the locations of numerous native villages. This in mind, the region was under tenuous French hegemony, as indicated by the presence of forts and Jesuit missions, such as "Fort Frontenac" (Kingston, Ontario), Niagara, Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie, and Kaskasquias in southern Illinois. The future site of Chicago is noted on the shores of Lake Michigan as "R. et Port de Chicagon". The coastline of the Thirteen Colonies from Chesapeake Bay to New York City is visible in the lower right corner. Bellin's rendering of the Great Lakes proved to be the most important cartographic source in the coming decades, most notably for John Mitchell's A Map of the British & French Dominions in North America (1755), the map that was used to define the boundaries of the newly independent United States in 1783. The composition is graced in the upper center-right by an extremely virtuous title cartouche of a rococo ethic.

Karpinski, Bibliography of the Early Printed Maps of Michigan, p.138; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada III, 950, plate 715; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.191; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 19; Cf. Heidenreich & Dahl, 'The French Mapping of North America', in The Map Collector 19 (June, 1982); Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p.165, pl.97

#19857$4,500.00
 
 
CHAPMAN, Silas

Chapman's Sectional Map of Minnesota

Milwaukee: Silas Chapman, 1856. Colored folding map, 29¾ x 23½ inches. Bound into original 16mo. brown cloth folder, gilt-lettered cover. Folder slightly worn and faded. Slight foxing on map. Colors on map generally bright and clean. Overall very good.

A variant state of this important Minnesota map, without priority, published in as many as five versions in 1856. Many of the counties west of St. Paul are unidentified or shown in their earlier, larger incarnations, and the region along the north shore of Lake Superior is unmapped. This edition was published by Silas Chapman himself, who produced several pocket maps of
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Chapman's maps were reproduced later by other publishers. While some 1856 versions of the map fail to show important geographic features shown here, such as Lake Minnetonka, the present map omits features that appear on other versions, such as the Sioux reservation in Goodhue and Wabasha counties and Houston county, indicating the present version is among the earlier states.

Not in Phillips Maps. Rumsey 1662; Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900 (Minnesota), p.124.

#6451$1,750.00
 
 
CHAPMAN, Silas

Chapman's Sectional Map of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Silas Chapman, 1879. Wall map, 36 x 32 inches, full period hand coloured lithograph. Backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, and on contemporary rollers. Three small age spots in western part of state, faint streaking in margin areas. A lovely map, brightly coloured, in very good condition.

Rare. An attractive and boldly coloured wall map of early Wisconsin.

Each county is individually coloured, with most in the north part of the state still oversized and empty of settlement. Townships and sections are also shown. Several Indian reservations are also laid down, including those of the Menominee and Oneida, and the many railroad lines in the state are identified. Silas Chapman produced several maps of the Midwest from the 1850s through the 1870s, including pocket and wall maps of Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

This map not in Rumsey; Phillips, America; Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900: (Wisconsin); or OCLC.

#6207$2,500.00
 
 
COLTON, G.W. and C.B

Map of Part of the United States North of the 37th Parallel Embracing the Country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th Meridian of Longitude

New York: Colton, [1873-] 1879. Engraved map, with original colour, on two sheets that measure 54 x 74 1/2 inches, and fold into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers.

A large-scale map of a large part of the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states, which is specifically designed to show the region's extensive railroad system. All towns and villages along the various railroad routes are identified, while those areas not served by the system are largely left blank.

Not in Rumsey

#3067$2,000.00
 
 
COLTON, G.W.

Colton's Township Map of the State of Ohio

New York: J.H. Colton, 1851. "Drawn by George W. Colton Engraved by J. M. Atwood." Full period color, 24 x 28 inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Sales label for Colton on inside front cover. Census table for 1840 and 1850 in upper right.

Large vignette of the Ohio state capitol. First edition of an early, handsome, large-scale state map by Colton & Company. Later editions appeared with the title, Colton's Railroad and Township Map. Not in Rumsey.

Karrow 2, 1907

#3200$850.00
 
 
COLTON, J. H.

Illinois [with inset: Vicinity of Chicago]

New York: published by J.H. Colton & Co, 1856. Engraved map, hand-coloured by county and outlined in red (sheet size: 17 x 13 1/2 inches), folding into original brown cloth covers, elaborately blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt. Advertisement for Colton forms front pastedown. (Small tears to folds)..

Second issue, with '1856' date added

Rumsey records an issue with only the 1855 copyright date that was published in the 1856 single-volume edition Colton's Atlas Of The World.

Cf. Phillips Atlases 816; cf. Rumsey 0149.049.

#23968$900.00
 
 
COLTON, J.H

Colton's Railroad & Township Map Western States Compiled from the United States Surveys

New York: Colton, 1854. Engraved map, with full original colour, 33 x 39 inches, folding into gilt-stamped maroon covers, with vignettes of St. Louis, Louisville, and Cincinnati.

A highly detailed, large-scale map of the Midwestern States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota. The eastern and southern parts are well-developed, but northern Michigan and Wisconsin, western Iowa, and particularly Minnesota are still in a primitive condition. Excellent information on early roads, railroads, counties, towns, and townships. Rumsey, 4985.

#6452$1,500.00
 
 
DUFF, Joseph

Traveler's Guide. A Map of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Extending from Pittsburg [Sic] to the Gulf of Mexico...

Cincinnati: Geo. Conclin, 1836. Black and white, 7 x 44 inches, dissected, cloth backed, and folding into brown cloth covers.

Lengthy table of distances. Karrow, Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900 (1, 1231), lists an 1833 edition, but no 1836 edition.

#3206$4,250.00
 
 
[GALLUP MAP & SUPPLY CO.]

[Map of Kansas City]

Kansas City: [ca. 1925]. Color-printed, 8½ x 11 inches, folding into orange pictorial paper wrappers.

Printed on both sides, with a detailed plan of the central business district on one side, and an "Auto Route Guide" to Metropolitan Kansas City on the other. The map of the Central Business District is specifically designed to illustrate degrees of parking restrictions, which are shown in various shades of red. The other side of the sheet includes a street index, and ads for the Gallup Map & Supply Company.

#3190$200.00
 
 
HART, Henry (surveyor and publisher)

City of Toledo, Lucas Co. Ohio

New York: Miller's Litho., 1852. Lithographed map, hand-coloured, sectioned and linen-backed. (Minor staining, tear repaired at an early date). Folds into publisher's brown cloth covers, covers blindstamped, upper cover titled in gilt, cloth ties, modern brown cloth chemise, all within brown morocco-backed cloth slipcase. Sheet size: 30 x 44 1/4 inches.

The first printed map of Toledo, Ohio.

This very rare cadastral map of Toledo shows the city at a critical point during its initial period of growth. Although the town was formed in 1833, development and settlement did not begin in earnest until after the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal. In 1850, the population of Toledo was 3829; a decade later, population had increased nearly 260% to 13,768.

The map, drawn on a scale of .4 miles to the inch, shows the locations of each plot with ownership information, as well as the locations of specific buildings, roads, canals, railroad lines, etc. The map includes an inset view of Toledo Central High School at the lower left. An early owner has added several pencil annotations to this copy, including changes in ownership names and the route of the Toledo and St. Louis Railroad line. OCLC locates but three institutional holdings.

Not in Phillips.

#23308$8,500.00
 
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