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.  The Trans-Mississippi west shows a large and detailed Missouri Territory with the west devoid of any substantial data other than the naming of Oregon.  Includes a population table, vignette of Washington, insets of Principal Rivers, height of Mountains and historical depictions of the Pilgrims Landing, Battle of Lexington & Bunker Hill and Washington’s farewell to troops at Franklin Square.  A curious and apparently ephemeral cartographic work that seems to have evaded historians and collectors alike for many decades.