1854 Mitchell Map Maine (1 results)

1st Edition. Very good condition. Blank on verso. Size 16 x 13 Inches. A beautiful and delicate example of S. A. Mitchell's 1854 New Map of Maine. This rare map covers the entire state of Maine from the New Hampshire border to Passamaquoddy Bay, and northwards as far as the St. John's River. In the upper right quadrant an inset offers population data according the various censuses to 1850 in tabular format. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure. After Maine became a state, carved out of Massachusetts in 1820, the northern boundary was disputed between the U.S. and Canada. The King of the Netherlands was appointed arbiter and settled the dispute with a new border of his own imagining. The first edition of this map issued in 1846, shortly after the 1842 treaty established the new Maine-Canada border hence the map's title, 'A New Map of Maine.' This map shows several borders, including the post-Revolutionary War border of 1783, the line proposed by the King of the Netherlands, and, ceding slightly more land to Canada, the final 1842 boundary. This map was prepared by S. A. Mitchell for publication by the Philadelphia firm of Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. as plate no. 6 in the 1854 edition of Mitchell's New General Atlas . According to Thomson this is state 21 of this map, varying over the previous states with regard to a corrected mapping of Old Town, in Penobscot County. Dated and copyrighted, 'Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1850 by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. in the Clerk's office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. References: Rumsey 4557.008 (1846 edition) Phillips (Atlases) 814.…