MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA COMPILED FROM THE LATEST AND MOST AUTHENTIC INFORMATION

by Vance, David H.:

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Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, [1825-1829].. Wall map, 51 x 61 inches, with full period color. Table of "Comparative Heights of the Principal Mountains and Hills in the United States," statistical table. Expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in burgundy cloth, and on contemporary rollers. Very good. This is the very scarce second edition of the finest general map of the United States published since Melish's map of 1816. Rumsey describes the map as "Scarce...Contemporary with Lay's [map of the U.S.] but a much more ambitious production." Although the first edition is dated 1825, Rumsey (277) lists an 1824 broadside advertisement for the map, and it is highly likely that it was completed in that year. The large inset "Map of North America including all of the Recent Geographical Discoveries" (18 x 20 inches) shows the northern Pacific boundary of the United States at 54º "settled by Convention April 5th, 1824," and is probably the earliest map to show the northern boundary of the U.S. at 54º. The "Map of North America" was published as a separate map in Finley's A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS (1826). In addition to the editions of 1825 and 1829, the map was republished in 1831 and 1833. Each edition was evidently revised to show new developments. As with most maps of the nation published before 1850, Finley includes only that portion east of approximately the 101st meridian. The country west of the Mississippi is based on Long's landmark map of 1823, with political boundaries in the west based upon the division of 1824. The map was drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young, who worked in the same capacity on Finley’s A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS. The map is quite rare in any edition. It was unknown to Ristow, who thought that S.A. Mitchell's later reduced version was an original production (see p.309). The map was unknown in any edition to Wheat, who notes only Finley's 1826 atlas maps (see TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST 368). The 1829 edition seems to be especially scarce. Not in Rumsey (who lists only the 1825 and 1833 editions); not in Phillips' AMERICA (listing only the 1825 edition, p.883). STREETER SALE 3820.

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