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BEERS, S. N., D. J. Lake, and F. W. Beers

Gillette's Map of Oneida Co. New York from actual surveys under the direction of J. H. French

Philadelphia: John H. Gillette, 1858. Wall map, 66½ x 64 inches, full period colour. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in green cloth, on contemporary rollers. Chip at left end of upper roller. Evenly toned, some minor staining in upper portion. Very good.

Scarce and quite important.

This handsome map was the largest and best for Oneida County, New York, in the nineteenth century. Each township is individually coloured, with every rural property owner located and identified by name. The route of the Erie Canal is shown, as are several railroad lines. There is a large inset street plan of Utica (17 x 27½") that shows virtually every existing building in the town. It is accompanied by an extensive business directory. More than thirty smaller insets show the towns of Rome, Knox Corners, Delta, Trenton Falls, Deerfield Corners, Remsen, Waterville, Durhamville, Vernon, Camden, New Hartford, and Clinton, among others. Seven surrounding engravings show prominent homes and buildings in the region, including the Court House in Rome, Utica City Hall, and the residences of Stanton Park in Waterville and Gen. Lyman Curtiss in Camden.

Silas N. Beers and Frederick W. Beers were cousins and well-known mapmakers. Along with the young D. Jackson Lake, they had studied under J. H. French at Newtown Academy in Newtown, CT. When French left the Academy in 1855 to become head of the New York State mapping project, French enlisted his former students as associates. This project was the most ambitious and accomplished for any American state to its time. The map of Oneida County is the first joint project on which the Beers and Lake collaborated. Ristow hypothesizes that French used the Oneida project as a "training ground" for the three young talented mapmakers.

Not in Rumsey, nor in Phillips's America.

Ristow, American Maps & Mapmakers, pp.393-94.

#6642$3,850.00
 
 
BRASSIER, William Furness (fl. 1745-1772)

[Revolutionary War - Lake Champlain] A Survey of Lake Champlain including Lake George, Crown Point, and St. John. Surveyed by order of Maj.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Amherst, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in America (now Lord Amherst), by William Brassier, draughtsman, 1762.

London: R. Sayer & J. Bennet, Aug. 5th, 1776. Copper-engraved map, with original wash colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 29 1/4 x 21 3/8 inches.

A rare example of Brassier's magnificently detailed map of Lake Champlain, in a state that captures this theatre in the Revolutionary War, and importantly depicting the very first battle fought by the U.S. Navy

This excellent large-scale detailed chart of Lake Champlain was based on the field work of William Brassier conducted through 1758 and 1759, whilst he was in the employ of James Montresor, the chief surveyor of the northern part of the British American colonies. The main section of the map embraces the entire length of the waterway from Lake George through Lake Champlain, and north past the Quebec border to depict the upper Richelieu River Valley as far as St. Jean. The great accuracy and detail of the map is testament to Brassier's immense skill as a surveyor and draughtsman, as he would have had to perform his role under very trying circumstances. At the time the region was an active front in the Seven Years War (1756-63), as British forces under Sir Jeffery Amherst advanced on the Marquis de Montcalm's French forces, who were guarding the southern approaches to Montreal. The inset in the lower left corner of the map features an extremely detailed rendering of Lake George, surveyed by British Captain Jackson in 1756. The map evinces the English nomenclature given to the newly captured French forts, most notably Fort Ticonderoga, which was formerly Fort Carillon, and Crown Point, formerly Fort St. Frederic. In addition, the map shows the recently constructed Fort George, on the lake of the same name, so called after the British monarch in 1755. The map features fascinating details relating to the events of the Seven Years War, describing altercations between the protagonists.

Importantly, the present second state is advanced of the first in that it illustrates the very first battle fought by the U.S. Navy - the Battle of Valcour Island, which transpired near present-day Plattsburgh, New York. Following the failed American attempt to invade Canada in 1775, the British decided to mount a powerful reprise designed to geographically sever New England from the mid-Atlantic colonies by seizing control of the Lake Champlain-Hudson Valley corridor. To create their Lake Champlain fleet, the British summoned a skilled team of craftsmen to St. John (St. Jean-sur-Richelieu) to assemble ships that were pre-fabricated in England, while the Americans relied on far more limited means to cobble together their fleet of 16 ships at Skenesborough. Hardly an equal match, the Americans could muster only 16 ships and 750 hands, while the British side's 30 ships carried 1,670 hands. The British fleet, commanded by Sir Guy Carleton, the Governor-General of Canada and Captain Thomas Pringle set out to doggedly pursue the enemy. The commander of the American fleet, the soon to be infamous Benedict Arnold, knew that he would be totally destroyed in an open battle, so on October 11th, 1776 he cleverly lured the British fleet into engaging him in a narrow, rocky passage. The confined space limited the British advantage of superior fire power, and though following a pitched battle, the Americans had suffered more damage than their opponents, some of the fleet managed to escape the scene. While the British were later able to destroy most of the remaining American vessels, their tactical victory proved to be strategically pyrrhic. The Americans had successfully created a delaying tactic that effectively prevented the British from seizing the all important forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point. The failure of the British to quickly complete their mission ensured that the Americans were able to re-group in time for the new season, and this in good part allowed them to deal a crushing blow to the British at the Battles of Saratoga in October, 1777.

Brassier's survey remained in manuscript form until the early days of the American Revolution, when the first state appeared in the 1776 edition of Thomas Jefferys's American Atlas, one of the most important and influential works of the cartography of the continent. The present second state appeared in both the 1778 edition of the American Atlas and the Sayer & Bennett's American Military Pocket Atlas - the so-called 'Holster Atlas,' which was used by British commanders in the field. Brassier's original manuscript is today preserved in the Faden Collection at Library of Congress.

Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 12/3&4; Fite & Freeman, A Book of Old Maps, pp.212-216; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, pp. 61-63; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p.190; Seller & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 1071 & 1073; Stevens & Tree, 'Comparative Cartography', 25b, in Tooley, The Mapping of America

#19727$9,500.00
 
 
BRIDGEMAN, E.

Bridgeman's New Rail Road & Township Map of New York....

New York: E. C. Bridgeman, [1880]. Wall map, 69½ x 64 inches, full period colour. Expertly repaired, backed on linen, contemporary rollers, trimmed in modern blue cloth. Minute creasing. Overall very good.

Scarce. An attractive map of New York state, featuring seven insets--a population table, a map of Manhattan, a map of Long Island, a list of principal cities and towns, a breakdown of congressional districts, a map of upper Manhattan and the Bronx, and a map of the United States. All of Lake Ontario is shown, as is the state's northwestern Canadian boundary. A nice view of the state as a whole, with particular focus on the state's most important regions. Not on OCLC.

Phillips, America, p.517.

#6476$3,750.00
 
 
BURR, David H. (1803-1875)

Map of the State of New-York with Parts of the Adjacent Country, embracing plans of the cities, and some of the larger villages

Ithaca, NY: Stone & Clark, 1841. Copper-engraved wall map, with full original colour, "Engraved by S. Stiles & Co., of New York, and D. S. Throop of Ithaca," backed with new linen, trimmed in green cloth, varnished, on contemporary rollers, generally in very good condition . Sheet size: 44½ x 54¼ inches.

A very rare map, the third edition of the most important state map of New York of the early nineteenth century.

Based upon surveys authorized by the legislature, Burr's map was essentially the first official state map of New York, a fact that was emphasized by a notice on the first edition of 1830: "Published by [order of ] Simeon de Witt Surveyor General [of the State of New York] Pursuant to an act of the Legislature." A second edition appeared in 1834. The publication rights were subsequently purchased by Stone and Clark, who in 1841 brought out this new updated version of the map. In all editions it was the most accurate and detailed of New York for the period. Among the insets are a large plan of Manhattan (29" x 10¾"), and smaller plans of Syracuse, Hudson, Oswego, Poughkeepsie, Ithaca, Utica, Rochester, Schenectady, Lockport, Auburn, Buffalo, Albany, and Troy, as well as a fine engraving of the Erie Canal at Little Falls. This 1841 edition is not in Phillips' America, nor in Rumsey.

See Rumsey, 2269 (for 1834 ed.).

#4884$8,500.00
 
 
BURR, David

A Map of the State of New-York and the Surrounding Country…Designating County, Towns, Canals, Rail Roads, Senatorial & Congressional Divisions. Also the Distances Along the Canals, Rail Roads and Principal Mail Routes

Ithaca, N.Y.: Stone & Clark, 1841. Full period color, 20 x 24¾ inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Some repairs.

"Engd. by Rawdon, Clark & Co., Albany & Rawdon, Wright & Co., New York." This is a revised edition of an important map of New York State. It originally appeared in the first edition of Burr's Atlas of the State of New York (1829), which was authorized by the Legislature of the State, and was just the second atlas of an American state to appear in print. In the following year, a wall map version of the map was published. The official status of the map was emphasized by a notice on the first (1830) edition of the wall map version: "Published by [order of ] Simeon de Witt Surveyor General [of the State of New York] Pursuant to an act of the Legislature." The rights to the Atlas of the State of New York were subsequently purchased by Stone and Clark, who in 1841 brought out this updated pocket map edition of the folio version of the state map. Not in Rumsey nor in Phillips. For the atlas and wall map, see Ristow, pp.104-5.

#3221$900.00
 
 
BURR, David

New-York

New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1836. Period outline color, 18¼ x 21½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped red leather covers. A fine example.

Second edition of Burr's smaller map of New York, with the copyright 1833, but dated 1836 below the title. This was one of the first maps published by the distinguished firm of Colton. "Engraved and Printed by S. Stiles & Co." The address for Stiles & Co. has been erased. Label containing the "Census of 1835" laid down on inside front cover. This 1836 edition was also included as the general map for the small version of Burr's Atlas of New York (1838). Five insets: "Niagara River, From Albany to Lake Champlain & Lake George," Environs of New York, City of New-York, "Environs of Utica." Not in Phillips.

Rumsey 108

#3219$1,250.00
 
 
DRIPPS, Matthew (publisher)

Map of the Bays, Harbors and Rivers around New York

New York: published by M. Dripps, 1871. Provenance: Thomas H. Kane (early ink stamp to lower right corner). Lithographic map, with full period hand-colour, on fine paper (old folds with some browning, expert repairs and occasional facsimile work). Sheet size: 33 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches.

An attractive map of Manhattan and its surroundings.

As the title suggests, this map concentrates on physical landmarks and features of the land and sea "Showing the channels, soundings, lighthouses, buoys &c. and the complete topography of the surrounding country; including Hemstead, Sandy-Hook, South-Amboy, Newark, Yonkers, N. Rochelle & Glencove". The title goes on to note that the map is "Based on the trigonometrical survey, executed in 1856, for the Harbor Commissioners of New York, by A.D. Bache Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey", but is at pains to point out that "The surveys of the cities, townships, railways, canals, roads, etc. are entirely original, & have been carefully revised & completed to date".

"Checklist of Maps and Atlases relating to the city of New York in the New York Public Library" in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, volume V (New York: 1901), p.70

#20370$3,750.00
 
 
[FINLEY, Anthony] VANCE, D.H.

Map of the State Of New York

Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1824. Full period color, 17 x 20½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers with front cover stamped "New York." Inset in lower left: "Profile of the Grand Erie Canal." Statistical table at right. Sales label for Finley's "New and Correct Pocket Maps" on inside front cover. Minor repairs.

First edition of a highly important pocket map of New York State. Orleans County is not yet present. A second edition, with Orleans County, and dated 1825, was included in Finley's A New American Atlas (1826). Rumsey notes that the atlas was an "attempt to compete with Tanner's American Atlas... the cartography and engraving are equal to Tanner, although the scale and map size are smaller." In 1831 the plates for the atlas were sold to S. Augustus Mitchell, who revised the maps and brought out a new edition in that year. Mitchell continued to issued the maps separately in pocket form until about 1850. Not in Phillips.

Rumsey 2587

#3239$1,250.00
 
 
FRENCH, John Homer (1824-1888)

The State of New York from New and Original Surveys under the direction of J.H. French

Syracuse: Robert Pearsall Smith, 1860. Hand-coloured lithographic wall map, backed with modern linen, full period color, trimmed in red cloth, on contemporary rollers. Two inset maps: "Geological and Land Patent Map of the State of New York" and "Meterological Map of the State of New York." Twelve inset city plans: Buffalo, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Albany, Oswego, Schenectady, Hudson, Auburn, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, New York City. Twelve pictorial vignettes of New York State towns and scenery, and a decorative border of scrolling vines. In good condition except for occasional expert repairs and old repair evident along right edge. Sheet size: 67 x 73 3/4 inches. .

The second edition of the best map of any American state published to its time. Ristow devoted an entire chapter to the construction of this map, and pronounced it of a "higher quality than the maps of other states published prior to the Civil War." 'American Maps and Mapmakers', pp. 355-378.

Beginning in 1853, Robert Pearsall Smith contracted with a number of local surveyors to construct maps of New York counties. In 1855 he engaged John Homer French to compile a state map from the various county maps. Although the individual county maps were not all of uniform quality, they were far more consistent and comprehensive than the local surveys conducted for any other American state. French's general map of The State of New York, first published in 1859, supplanted Burr's Atlas of the State of New York (1829), as the definitive reference for the topography of the state. It remained so until two decades later, when the U.S. Geological Survey began published maps based on original triangulation.

This second edition was published in 1860. Despite the quality of the map, the number of copies sold was insufficient to offset costs, and in 1865 Smith sold his publication rights to H. H. Lloyd, who brought out new editions.

Cf. BMC Printed Maps X, col. 558; Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society 2 (1860), p. 135; Phillips, America, p. 513; Ristow, American Maps & Mapmakers, pp.355-78; not in Rumsey.


#18755$3,500.00
 
 
GEIL, Samuel

Map of Saratoga Co. New York from Actual Surveys...

Philadelphia: E. A. Balch, 1856. Wall map, 37½ x 56½ inches, with extensive contemporary colour. Six engraved pictorial inserts plus sixteen map inserts. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in maroon cloth, on contemporary rollers. colour bright and clean. Very good.

A lovely wall map of Saratoga County, the most famous spa in mid-nineteenth century America. Each township is separately coloured, and individual property owners are located and named throughout the county. There are inset maps of several county towns and villages, including a large detailed street plan of Saratoga Springs, plus Glenn Falls, Ballston Spa, Jessup's Landing, Waterford, and Schuylerville. The map is surrounded by fine engravings of illustrious local buildings. Geil, a noted upstate surveyor, published maps of several New York counties between 1852 and 1856. This was a particularly rare and important example; the only map of Saratoga County listed in Phillips' America. Not in Rumsey. OCLC locates only one copy.

Phillips, America, p.785. Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, pp. 388-92. OCLC 41152794.

#5396$3,850.00
 
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