A rare and delightful “road book” for cyclists touring Maine during the bicycle craze of the 1890s, featuring maps of bikeable routes in the state with a diverting selection of period advertisements. Designed specifically for bicycle touring, this portable volume allowed riders to navigate long distances and distinguish “good roads,”.....
First and only edition of the first atlas of the state of Maine. Moses Greenleaf (1777–1834) is renowned as Maine’s first map-maker. His maps appeared between 1815 and 1846, and neatly coincide with the period covering Maine’s achievement of statehood (1820) to the final resolution of its present day boundaries.....
The scarce first edition of this early book of road maps, the second such work published in America, after Christopher Colles’s Survey of the Roads of the United States (1789), and the first to depict in detail the roads connecting New York, Philadelphia and Washington. The text begins with a......
Part one of the rare, serially-issued, first-ever atlas to use cerographic printing—an experimental wax-engraving technique—with an account of the development of the process, featuring sixteen maps of US states and territories. Cerography was invented by newspaper publisher Sidney Edwards Morse (1794–1871) in the late 1830s while he was serving as.....
The final part of the original cerographic atlas, a rare and unique work containing maps of US states, western territories, and parts of Mexico on the eve of the Mexican-American War. Cerography was invented by newspaper publisher Sidney Edwards Morse (1794–1871) in the late 1830s while he was serving as.....
First abridged edition of the first historical atlas of the United States by pioneering educator Emma Willard, who, in promoting the power of visual learning, became the country’s first female map maker. The first map in this volume, designated the “Introductory Map,” presents the “Locations and Wanderings of the Aboriginal.....
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A rare and very appealing pocket atlas consisting of fourteen maps of North and South American subjects. All of the maps included here originally appeared along with twenty-six other maps in Anthony Finley’s New General Atlas The Five Great Divisions of the Globe, which accompanied his edition of Malte-Brun’s Universal.....