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Central States Maps
Regional Maps of the Central US

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North Central US, Circa 1850, "Map of the Western States engraved to accompany Appletons' Hand Book of American Travel", $195. Hand colored engraving. Paper size is approx. 13" x 18". This is a great period example of a practical travel map of the mid 19th Century. All major highways, railroad routes, and water routes, and the towns that they passed through are shown. A very interesting feature is the dual longitude marking. The top of the map is annotated in longitude west of Greenwich, while the bottom of the map is annotated in longitude west of Washington, D.C. This map includes the full states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,, and (most of) Tennessee and adjoining parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and Canada. Lower margin annotated "Drawn & Engd W. Williams, Phila." Very good condition though there is some age toning along edges, folds as issued, and lower left margin is trimmed close to neatline (probably from original bookbinding.)
1818, Map of Part of the United States of America with the Territory of the Illinois on the Ohio, Particularly Designed to Illustrate Birkbeck's Journey $475. Published by J. Ridgway. Engraving with outline color, approximately 14" x 16". Morris Birkbeck came to the US with much of his family in 1817 with the intention of founding a settlement in the western wilderness. He arrived in Norfolk, Virginia and traveled to Richmond; Washington DC; Fredericktown, Maryland; Hagerstown; Pittsburg; Wheeling, Zanesville; Chillicothe; Cincinnati; Madison,Indiana; Vincennes and on to the Illinois Territory. This map shows the existing roads and rivers and the towns in existence and includes Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana & Illinois Territory, the associated Great Lakes, and parts of Michigan Territory, Canada, New York, Delaware, North Carolina, and Tennessee. An interesting anomaly of this map is the expanded Indiana and the shifting of Illinois to the west of Lake Michigan. The track of Birkbecks' journey is traced with light dotted line. This is a very collectible record of early 19th Century United states geography and travel and has various interesting features. Map is agetoned, folded as issued, and there are a few old marginal separations at the folds. Map has been backed with a stiff paper.

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