PHELPS, Humphrey; ENSIGN, Timothy and Edward.- Travellers' guide, and map of the United States, containing the roads, distances steam boat and canal routes.
Estimation :
200 / 250
Adjudication :
200 €
Description
New York, T. & E.H. Ensign, 1843. Steel engraving, TC 39 x 54 cm, borders original hand-coloured, with handwritten notes completing the title (folded, stain, small lack). Without guide. Under glass and wooden frame. Map covers the United States from Iowa to the Atlantic Seaboard and from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. With 15 inset maps : south part of Florida, north part of Maine and 13 major ports (New York, Chicago, Washington, etc.) in the lower right quadrant. Phelps issued with Ensign a first edition (same title) in 1838, after he had previously published one with Bela S. Squire ("Entered according to act of congress in the year 1837 by Phelps & Squire, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Southern District, of the State of New York"). Besides Phelps's more common wall maps these folded ones were intended for travellers and were normally accompanied by a guide, though not in this case. Distances between cities are indicated along each road.
# New York Public Library, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map.Div 01-5146; # Tooley II, 25 & III, 421.
Carte pour le voyageur aux États-Unis (sans le guide). Rare usage de la gravure sur acier inoxydable.
# New York Public Library, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map.Div 01-5146; # Tooley II, 25 & III, 421.
Carte pour le voyageur aux États-Unis (sans le guide). Rare usage de la gravure sur acier inoxydable.
