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Map of Vermont & New Hampshire.
[South Reading, Vermont], 1834. Hand-colored engraving, 29.25” x 22.5” plus margins, mounted on linen and affixed to original wooden rods. Colored in red and green and within a decorative border. Silk selvage renewed. CONDITION: Very good, one minor loss in lower-left corner, light spots of dampstaining, light cracking and light foxing throughout; light wear to rods. A lovely example of the 1834 edition of Robinson’s small-format wall map of Vermont and New Hampshire, first published in 1828. The map covers an area spanning from a portion of Maine in the east to a part of New York state in the west, and from a sliver of Massachusetts in the south to Lower Canada in the north. Depicted are townships, roads, towns and counties (whose boundaries are shaded in green and blue), civil subdivisions, bodies of water (several rivers bear Native American names), The White Mountains and other mountains, schools (including Dartmouth College and “Vermont University”), grants to Dartmouth College, and islands. Appearing in the upper corners are two tables of distances from fourteen shire towns in Vermont to Montpelier and to Boston, and from twelve towns in New Hampshire to Concord and to Boston. A scale appears below the title and relief is shown by hachure. Washington, D.C. serves as the map’s prime meridian. Ristow identifies the 1828 edition of this maps as “the first original cartographic contribution” published by Vermont-born mapmaker and publisher Lewis Robinson (1793–1876). Evidently enjoying popularity, the map went through twelve revisions up to 1859. Robinson also published individual maps of both Vermont and New Hampshire, the first editions of which appeared in 1834, each appearing in updated editions as well (in the form of wall maps and pocket maps). A prolific publisher of copper plate engravings, Robinson operated a printing house in South Reading, Vermont in the early 1820s which produced numerous maps of the area as well as scriptural illustrations. In 1836, he established a map-publishing house in Akron, Ohio with two of his brothers-in-law which produced copies of his own maps. Other maps by Robinson include the large-scale Map of the United States (1833), An Improved Map of Maine (1835), as well as individual maps of Indiana (1830), Akron (ca. 1836), Ohio (1837), and the Connecticut Reserve (1838). After scaling down his map business in 1861, likely due to the emergent competition from lithography in map production, he died in South Reading in 1876. OCLC records only three holdings, at Boston Public Library, Dartmouth College, and Vermont Historical Society. REFERENCES: Ristow, Walter, American Maps and Mapmakers, pp. 271–73; “Robinson Map of Vermont 1834” at Old-Maps online.
Item #8007
Price: $1,500.00
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