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ALASKA. - F. J. MONROE.

Map of Seward Peninsula, the Arctic gold fields of Alaska

No place [but Seattle?]: Northwestern Commercial Company, 1904 [copyright date]. Folding lithographic pocket map, printed in blue and black. Folds into publisher's orange thin card boards, titled on the upper outer cover, advertisements on the lower outer cover and the upper inner cover. Sheet size: 19 x 23 1/2 inches.

A charming cartographic advertisement for a mining outfitter on the Seward Peninsula.

This map was issued to promote the Northwestern Commercial Company, with their slogan printed at the top of the map: "You always get good goods and right prices from Northwestern Commercial Company." The company's advertisement on the inside wrapper states: "We supply the miners of the Seward Peninsula." At the bottom of the map is an advertisement for their steamship service between Nome and Seattle: "Traveling between Nome and Seattle take the S.S. Victoria, S.S. Tacoma, S.S. Olympia. A Steamer every 10 days each way..."

#24803$350.00
 
 
ALASKA. - U.S. COAST and GEODETIC SURVEY.

Alaska and Adjoining Territory

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1887 [printed Jan. 1888]. Lithographed folding pocket map, printed in black and blue. Folds into publisher's brown cloth covers, covers ruled in blind, upper cover titled in gilt. Sheet size: 30 x 37 inches.

An attractive and large map of Alaska during the early period of its development.

Extensive printed notes below the title record that an earlier edition of this map was published in 1884 using information gathered fom various sources including "the officers of the 'Vega' expedition and of the Coast Survey". This edition was then corrected and re-issued in 1887 incorporating new data. This particularly concerned southeastern Alaska, the Yukon River, northwestern Alaska and the Copper River and was gathered by various expeditions and surveying trips. A note at the foot of the map records that this copy was printed in January 1888 from the 1887 edition, and there is a further printed note "Sent from the Chart Room" with the date February 1, 1888, added in manuscript.

The large map shows a detailed rendering of the coast line, with many soundings. The interior is, as expected, quite undeveloped, though towns are identified. A later owner has added the location of Mount McKinley in pencil.

#24799$450.00
 
 
ARKANSAS. - RAND McNALLY & Co.

Rand, McNally & Co.'s indexed county and township pocket map and shippers' guide of Arkansas

Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Co., Map Publishers and Engravers, (1895). Folding pocket map, printed in black and red. Folds into original lettered thin card covers. With 47pp. letterpress index followed by 13pp. of advertisements. Sheet size: 21 x 27 1/2 inches.

Railroad map of Arkansas.

The sub-title notes that the map is "Accompanied by a new and original compilation and ready reference index, showing in detail the entire railroad system. The Express Company doing business over each road, and accurately locating all Cities, Towns, Post Offices, Railroad Stations, Villages Counties, Islands, Lakes, Rivers, etc." The large map shows the state divided into counties, with all the principal towns, roads, rivers, springs and mountain ranges identified. Printed in red along the right side of the map are a list of the state's railroads, with numbers to corresponding routes on the map.

This popular series of guides by Rand McNally continued to be published into the 20th century, however 19th century issues are more uncommon. This edition not in Phillips.

Cf. Phillips Maps p.125 (editions for 1881, 1883, 1884 and 1892).

#24802$300.00
 
 
ARKANSAS. - William A. MOSBERGER

Ross' New Sectional Map of the State of Arkansas, showing the sections, townships, lines, ranges, principal rivers, creeks, post offices, landings, towns, roads, railroads, U.S. surveys, lakes, & etc.

St. Louis: E. H. Ross Western Map Emporium, 1871. Folding pocket map on bank note paper, lithographed by A. McLean of St. Louis, hand-coloured. Folds into publisher's brown cloth covers, covers blocked in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, publisher's ad on the inside front cover. Sheet size: 34 x 27 1/2 inches.

Unrecorded pocket map of Arkansas.

This large-scale map (shown on a scale of 10 miles to the inch) is as impressive as it is rare. Fifty-eight counties are shown, each individually coloured and named, and laid out with grids. Numerous cities are located, the largest of which, Little Rock, is depicted with numerous existing and proposed railroad lines eminating from the capital. Rivers are shown and named, and mountain ranges depicted with hachuring.

The ad on the inside front cover touts the map as having been "compiled from official sources" and offers it for sale mounted on rollers ($2) or in pocket form ($1.50). The ad further promotes the sale of Ross' sectional map of Kansas, and closes with a note that the publisher and mapseller keeps "constantly on hand a full line of all maps ... published by Gaylord Watson, New York, and Geo. F. Cram & Co., Chicago ... Also frames, photographs, lithographs, engravings and chromes."

There is scant evidence on the work of Mosberger. This, along with a much later map of St. Louis, are the only printed examples of his work. However, based on his title given on the map, Mosberger was evidently employed by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office.

OCLC records no copy of this edition of Mosberger's map, and only two copies of later editions of 1872 (University of Chicago) and 1874 (British Library). The map is not listed by Phillips, nor is there an entry on Mosberger in Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers.

#24800$8,000.00
 
 
COLORADO. - RAND McNALLY & Co.

Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of Colorado

Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Co., 1892. Folding pocket map, printed in colours. Folds into original lettered thin card covers. With 36pp. letterpress index. Sheet size: 20 13/16 x 27 3/4 inches.

An early edition of Rand McNally's railroad map of Colorado.

The sub-title notes that the map is "accompanied by a new and original compilation and ready reference index, showing in detail the entire railroad system. The Express Company doing business over each road, and accurately locating all Cities, Towns, Post Offices, Railroad Stations, Villages Counties, Islands, Lakes, Rivers, etc." The large map, handsomely printed in colours, shows the state divided into counties, with all the principal towns, roads, rivers, springs and mountain ranges identified. A large Ute Indian Reservation is shown in the southwest corner of the state.

This popular series of guides by Rand McNally continued to be published into the 20th century, however 19th century issues are uncommon.

Phillips Maps p.243

#24806$600.00
 
 
COLTON, J. H. (1800-1893)

The Territories of Washington and Oregon

New York: J. H. Colton, 1854. Engraved folding pocket map, full contemporary hand-colouring, ornamental border. Folds into publisher's blind-stamped cloth covers, titled in gilt on the upper cover, publisher's ad on the front pastedown. Sheet size: 14 x 17 inches.

Very rare separately-issued pocket map of Washington and Oregon Territories: the first issue of Colton's map of those newly-formed territories.

Although copyrighted 1853, this map did not appear in a Colton atlas until the 1855-56 Atlas of the World. This 1854 pocket map version precedes that issue, and shows the territories in their infancy. Unlike the later sheet map version, this separately-issued pocket map only shows three counties in western Washington Territory (Lewis, Pacific and Clark) and ten counties in western Oregon (Clatsop, Washington, Yam Hill, Clackamas, Polk, Marion, Benton, Linn, Lake and a large Umpqua county). Also unlike the later sheet map version, the Stevens route of the proposed Pacific Railroad is not shown (as the survey was still ongoing at the time of the publication of this pocket map). Many locations are shown, including towns, forts, rivers, mountains, etc.

The map is a significant rarity with only a handful of recorded locations and no copies appearing at auction in the last quarter century.

Smith, p. 55; Streeter Sale 3896 (1855 edition). Not in Graff, Wheat or Phillips.

#24849$4,500.00
 
 
EBERT, Frederick J.

Map of Colorado Territory Embracing the Central Gold Region ... under direction of the Governor Wm. Gilpin.

New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1866. Engraved folding pocket map, printed on bank note paper, full contemporary hand-colouring. Ornamental border. Folds into publisher's brown cloth covers, covers decoratively blocked in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, publisher's ad on the inside upper cover. Sheet size: 26 3/4 x 36 inches.

The "first 'indigenous' [Colorado] map of importance ... a truly imposing map, a credit to all who had a hand in it" (Wheat).

"The Ebert-Gilpin map presents Colorado as politically advanced, divided up into seventeen counties besides an 'Indian Reserve' on the Plains. A great many cities and mining camps are located down the length of the Rockies, and the initial surveys of the General Land Office are indicated. Topography is drawn in to an impressive degree, the latest government maps used to great effect. Principal roads are shown, and notable among them is the 'Road to Salt Lake' reconnoitered in 1861..." (Wheat).

This map was first published in 1862 in Philadelphia by Jacob Monk. Only three extant copies of the first edition are known. "This 1862 edition of the Ebert map, which is important as the first separate map of Colorado, apparently preceded by a short time a copy of the same map on the smaller scale of 18 miles to the inch given as an inset in the magnificent Pratt and Buell Map of the Gold Regions, Philadelphia, 1862" (Streeter). In 1865, Monk published a variant version, with a slightly different title (Map of Colorado Territory, Shewing the System of Parks). This issue is uncoloured, save for the central parts, to emphasize the parks and with a coloured line to show the continental divide.

In 1866, both versions were published by Colton in New York. Of the Colton issues, Gilpin wrote in a letter to L. S. Hatch of Denver (quoted in Wheat): "This is a most excellent, accurate and copious chart, from which all since have been copied." It seems likely that Gilpin was involved with the Colton edition, as that edition contains significant additions to the previous Monk issues (contrary to Wheat's assessment that "the underlying plate was not changed" [Wheat, vol. 5: p.145]). Among the additions are new towns identified, predominantly in Gold Rush counties: Boulder (Valmont, Fort Junction, Burlington, Belle Monte, Coal Creek), Gilpin (South Boulder, Black Hawk Point), Clear Creek (Empire City), Arapahoe (Fulton, Living Springs), Fremont (Beaver Creek), El Paso (El Paso, Fountain), and Jefferson (Ralston, Hutchinson). In Boulder County, two gold regions are newly specified, as simply "Gold District" and the "Ward District Gold Hills." These embellishments are testament to the boom times brought about by the discovery of gold.

All editions of the map are rare, with the last auction record for any version being the Streeter copy in 1968.

Phillips, p. 241; Wheat, V:p.56; Streeter Sale 2147 (1862 edition).

#24805$30,000.00
 
 
HUTAWA, Julius

Map of Mexico & California Compiled from the latest authorities by Juls. Hutawa ... 2nd. Edition

St. Louis, Missouri: Julius Hutawa, 1863. Folding lithographic map (sheet size: 24 x 19½ inches) by Hutawa, hand-coloured in outline, small repaired tears, tipped onto the inner lower cover of the original drab paper-covered boards.

An interesting and rare Gold Rush-era map, showing the locations of various western Indian tribes, overland routes, and the region comprising present-day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma.

The fourth issue of an interesting and historically-important map. The Cooke and Kearny routes to the Pacific are shown, and there is an inset showing the area around Mexico City.

This example is preceded by three earlier issues which all appeared within a couple of years of each other in 1847 to 1849. The present example differs from its precursors in that it is dated 1863, includes the words "New Mexico" printed on the map, and has colored boundaries indicating the Gadsen Purchase. "Particularly interesting is the number of routes west traced on the map; most of them are accurate. The locations given in New Mexico are very full" (Graff), also included are fascinating details of the locations of forts, trading posts, and various Native American tribes.

The German-born printer, Julius F. Hutawa, settled in St. Louis where, along with his brother Edward, he established a well-known lithography and printing business in the 1830s. The present map is a prime example of their specialized traveler's maps.

Wheat Gold Regions 46N; Wheat Transmississippi 1072; Graff 2026; Howell California 52:440; David Rumsey Collection, list # 0335.001; Streeter sale, lot nos. 179 & 180; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West III, 562; Wheat Maps of the California Gold Rush 46; Wheat 1072.

#20275$3,750.00
 
 
IOWA - Nathan H. PARKER

Parker's Sectional & Geological Map of Iowa exhibiting her iron, lead, copper, coal and other geological resources and all rail roads completed in progress and projected. Compiled from the U.S. surveys and other official records

New York: J. H. Colton & Co.; Chicago: Kenn & Lee, 1856. Engraved folding pocket map, full contemporary hand-colouring, printed on two sheets joined, ornamental border. Inset map titled "Map Showing the Connections between Iowa and Eastern Rail Roads." Table of railroads, advertisements for land agents. Folds into publisher's red cloth covers, covers decoratively stamped in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, advertisement for Mendenhall's Map Establishment on the front pastedown. Sheet size: 33 x 46 1/2 inches.

Parker's famed pocket map of Iowa, here in exceptional condition.

This very large folding map was commissioned by Nathan H. Parker and published by J.H. Colton. Parker was a partner in the Clinton Iowa firm of Parker, Dole & Co. They were bankers and land agents in Iowa during its initial period of settlement following its admission as a state. The map was issued as an inducement to settlement and investment in the region. Much detail is shown, including the towns, roads, railroads, and rivers, but also areas of mineral deposits. The map has very bright original hand colouring and a beautifully ornate decorative scrollwork border.

Graff 3190; Eberstadt 121:172. Not in Phillips or Rumsey.

#24812$550.00
 
 
KANSAS and NEBRASKA TERRITORIES. - J.H. COLTON (1800-1893)

Nebraska and Kansas

New York: J. H. Colton, 1856. Engraved folding pocket map, full contemporary hand-colouring, ornamental grape leaf border. Inset maps of the U.S. (untitled) and the "Territory acquired from Mexico by the Gadsden Treaty," vignette illustrations within the map of Indians, animals, a covered wagon, etc. Folds into publisher's red cloth covers, covers stamped in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, publisher's ad on the front pastedown. Sheet size: 29 1/4 x 22 inches.

Stunning and highly decorative pocket map of Nebraska and Kansas Territories, but encompassing the region from St. Louis to Salt Lake City, with the Texas panhandle and much of New Mexico shown.

Heaston, in his bibliography of Kansas pocket maps, writes: "This gaily colored and delightfully decorated map of Kansas and Nebraska is an important map which is mis-labeled. In addition to Kansas and Nebraska, it features details of Texas and New Mexico, showing overland trails, Indians, forts, and rivers, with vignettes of animals, Indians, and small scenes. This remarkable map is most desirable for its superb detail with particular reference to the boundary lines."

Thomas Streeter described his copy (which was purchased by Heaston and subsequently gifted to Yale), as follows: "This is a large scale map of the western country between the Canadian border in the north and El Paso in the south, extending a little beyond Great Salt Lake, and includes all of Nebraska and Kansas Territories, the northern part of Texas and the eastern boundaries of Oregon and Washington Territories. The detail of New Mexico Territory is especially good. It shows the Oregon and Santa Fé trails and the route from Santa Fé to Fort Smith and various proposed routes for railroads to the Pacific. On the map are vignettes of an emigrant train, of Indians, buffalos, etc." (Streeter).

Various editions and states of the map are known. This second edition includes important additions not found on either of the two issues of the 1854 first edition. Of the present second edition, Heaston adds: "Additional Pacific Railway Routes are shown along with numerous added cities and towns, such as El Paso, Texas, the City of Nephi in Utah, and additional villages in Kansas are shown for the first time."

Streeter sale 3062; Heaston 3; Rumsey 3873 (1854 issue); Graff 836 (1857 issue); Mapping the West, pp. 170-171; Phillips, p. 459.

#24831$12,000.00
 
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