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Lloyd’s New Map of the Mississippi River From Cairo to Its Mouth.
New York: Published by H. H. Lloyd & Co., 25 Howard St.; Waters & Sons, engravers, [ca. 1863]. Hand-colored lithographic map in two strip sections on a single sheet, 34.25” x 10.15”, each strip measuring 31.25” x 4” plus margins, with title printed above the left strip map. CONDITION: Very good, light dampstains, repairs at corners, old folds, wear at margins, reinforced with Japanese tissue at verso. H. H. Lloyd’s scarce and richly detailed two-strip map of the Mississippi River, likely based on competitor James T. Lloyd’s larger strip map published in 1863. This map covers some 1000 miles of the Mississippi River. The strip on the left extends from a portion of Kentucky at the top to Tallulah, Louisiana below, and the strip on the right spans from Vicksburg, Mississippi at top to the Gulf of Mexico at bottom. Distances in miles from New Orleans are provided for various locales. A scale of eleven miles to the inch appears at the bottom of the strip on the right. Among the details represented are forts, mills, schools, landings, state boundaries, boundaries between Native American cessions, bayous, roads (and indication of where they lead), islands, lighthouses, churches, various bodies of water, plantations, a sugar refinery, municipal buildings, railroads (Cairo & Fulton R.R., Baton Rouge & Opelousas R.R., etc.), and so on. The forts shown include Fort Jackson, Fort St. Philip, Fort Pillow and Fort Panmurel. A note above Natchez reads: “Here Col. Aaron Burr surrendered Jan. 27 1807 to Cowles Mead then acting Governor,” referring to Burr’s arrival in Mississippi with a force of 2000 men and his supposed treasonous attempt to form an independent country in the southwest, known as the Burr Conspiracy. Also identified is the site of the Battle of New Orleans of January 8th 1815. A note below the map calls for agents to sell “this and many popular Charts for the times.” Based in New York, H. H. Lloyd & Co. were publishers and engravers who were active from 1860 to 1878 and whose output during the Civil War was quite extensive. Other maps the firm published during the War include Lloyd’s New Military Map of the Border and Southern States (NY: Edward S. Hall, 1861); Map of General Washington’s Land at Mount Vernon (NY, 1862); and G.R. Belcher’s Military Map, referring to the Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia (NY, 1864). Lloyd & Co. also published campaign military charts and political charts such as Lloyd’s New Political Chart, 1861. With a Map of the United States, Showing the Free States, Border Slave States, Cotton States, and Territories (NY, 1861) and H. H. Lloyd & Co.’s Campaign Military Charts Showing the Principal Strategic Places of Interest (NY, ca. 1861). Wood engravers Waters & Son, namely Charles J. B. and John W. Waters, were active in New York during the 1860s. REFERENCES: Civil War Maps, 2nd ed., #37.2; Groce & Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America, p. 664; Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers, Revised Edition, K–P, pp. 144–45.
Item #7647
Price: $3,500.00
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