Henn Williams (9 results)

Pictorial Card Cover. Condition: Very Good. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Pages are clean,bright and tight.Minimal wear to soft cover book. No name or inscription. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Original blue cloth folder. fine condition, with only very short tears along two folds. Full color by county in Iowa, outline color outside of the state. Henn, Williams were land dealers in Fairfield, Iowa, with offices also in Chariton, Sioux City and Fort Dodge. This edition was co-published by R. L. Barnes of Philadelphia, whose copyright notice, dated 1854, appears at the bottom. Graff 1857.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Full-color folding map, 22" x 35". Folds into embossed red-cloth covers, gilt lettering on cover, 5.75" x 3.75". Near fine condition. Drawn in 1854 and issued early in 1855, this map shows a "Great Western Mail & Emigrant Route to the Pacific" extending from Omaha. The first American settlers arrived in Iowa from the East in 1833. By 1855, the new state had become a magnet for homesteaders and settlers to work the rich land.

Folding pocket map lithographed by Friend & Aub of Philadelphia, full original period hand colouring. Folds into original blue cloth covers, blocked in blind, the upper cover with publisher and title in gilt. A fine copy of this attractive map of Iowa from the early years of its settlement, this second edition shows the rapid development within the state and is the first edition to include Sioux City and many proposed railroad routes. This large and colourful map of Iowa shows the state divided into numerous counties, all within nine land districts, with the sites of the land offices identified in each. Issued to promote settlement in the state, the map includes an advertisement in the upper left corner for Henn, Williams and Co.: "dealers in land, land warrants & exchange . special attention given to Location of Land, the sale and loan of Warrants and to the collecting & remitting of sight and time bills. Investments made in any part of Iowa." Besides locating numerous towns and river systems, the state's burgeoning railroad system is shown, with many proposed routes depicted across the state by means of dotted lines. This is the second edition of the map, after the first of 1854, but apparently printed from a new plate to incorporate the rapid growth. A third edition followed in 1856. Phillips A List of Maps of America, p. 337; Rumsey 1739; Graff 1857; Streeter sale 3898.

Original blue cloth. 2 tears into surface, at left in Nebraska and in 3 counties in the northwestern part of the state. Minor separations at fold junctions. Full color by county. The entire state has been organized at this time, though the northern and westernmost counties are at best minimally mapped. Graff 1857.

Lacks folder. Generally very condition, with one repaired tear near the previous folder attachment and small separations at some fold junctions. Full color by county in Iowa, outline color outside of the state. This issue is entirely reengraved from the 1855 edition, including a new decorative border and many changes in towns and geographical features. The co-publishers of this edition were Keen and Lee of Chicago and Charles DeSilver of Philadelphia. The copyright notice is from Illinois.

Frst edition of this township map of Iowa published by Henn, Williams Company and R.L. Barnes. Subsequent editions were issued in 1855 and 1856. Commenting on the first three editions of this map, Thomas Streeter wrote: "These three maps show clearly the rapid growth of the settlement in Iowa over just a three-year period. In 1854 [the present first edition] there was practically no settlement in the three tiers of northwestern counties. By 1855 [the second edition] Kossuth County had absorbed Bancroft and Humboldt, and.had a county seat.The northwestern counties are further developed by 1856 [the third edition], with Nebraska counties.being shown for the first time." When this map was printed in 1854, Nebraska had just become an organized incorporated territory of the United States created by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and as development of Nebraska had yet to really begin, the Nebraska portion of the map includes only Omaha city, Nebraska City, Old Fort Kearney, the Great Western Mail & Emigrant route to the Pacific, Belleview Mission, and the location of the Omaha and Pawnee reservations. A large and important early map of Iowa. STREETER SALE 3893, 3901 (note). GRAFF 1856. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.337. Folding into original 16mo green cloth boards, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth rubbed and stained, worn at extremities. A few old stains on the map, small splits at a few cross-folds, closed two-inch tear along one fold (where affixed to boards). Very good.