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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.
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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.

Ensign & Thayer   Map of Massachusetts, Rhode-Island & Connecticut Compiled From The Latest Authorities.  NY, Ensign & Thayer, 1850.  Linen backed wall map on rods, fully colored engraving, 26” x 34”.  Light horizontal crease, minor dampstain, small chip in upper right margin, overall very good or better.  Not in Phillips.  $600.00
Scarce and attractive engraved map of the New England states colored by township on two joined sheets.  Map is supplemented by fifteen colored inset plans including New York City, Boston, Providence and Hartford. Preceded by an edition of 1848.

Colton, J.H. The United States Of America.  NY, J.H. Colton & Co., 1855.  Lithograph, wash color, 17.5” x 27.7”,  folds as issued.  Very clean and bright, very wide margins, nearly fine or better.  $500.00
Often erroneously described as an atlas map variant, this elusive issue, first published in 1853, was in fact a predecessor of Colton’s American Atlas map.  This edition bears the wide colored ornamental border and numerous sailing ships first appearing in 1853 though now displaying the new west, including the recently formed Nebraska and Kanzas [sic] Territories which are very accurately delineated.  Very attractively colored by state and territory and printed on a large sheet off medium weight paper.  This example issued as a supplement to S.G. Goodrich’s The World as it Is, and as it Has Been, published in New York by the Colton firm.
 

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 80^th 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.

C21.5  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.

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