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A finely bound copy of D.B. Warden's Account of the United States of North America.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>David Bailie Warden (Irish-American).</li><li>Statistical, Political &amp; Historical Account of the United States of America from the Period of their First Colonization to the Present Day.</li><li>Edinburgh: Constable &amp; Co., 1819.</li><li>Illustrated with two folding maps.</li><li>Bound in three-quarter tan calf and marbled boards, the raised band spine displays gilt-tooled detailing on the panels and red labels.</li></ul>

Account of the United States of North America

An important landmark map of America with illustrations of native Americans.<ul><li>John Speed (English).</li><li>Engraved by Abraham Goos (English).</li><li>London: Roger Rea and Son, 1627.</li><li>Illustrations of 10 costume vignettes of native Americans, including the kings of New England and Florida, a Virginian and Greenlander.</li><li>Originally engraved for Speed's "Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World," the first English atlas.</li></ul> An important map of America, the first atlas map to show California as an island. Above California is the outline of another large, unnamed island; nothing is shown of the Great Lakes; and Raleigh's "Parime Lacus" and "Manoa" appear in South America. An inset shows Greenland, Iceland and the mythical islands of Friesland &amp; Buss. Along the top of the map are prospects of eight cities, including Havana, Cartagena, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. This example comes from the Roger Rea issue, which was beset with disaster: according to an advert for the 1676 Bassett &amp; Chiswell edition, "the greatest part of an Impression, then newly Printed, [was] destroyed by the late dreadful Fire, 1666." Surviving examples of any Rea map are thus rare. For his issue Rea amended the plate, adding English place names including Boston, "Long Ile," "Mary Land" and Carolina.

English Landmark Map of America

Maps of the District of Columbia and City of Washington including maps of squares and lots.<ul><li>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;printed by A. Boyd Hamilton,&nbsp;1852.</li><li>159 numbered leaves.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Features three additional foldout maps tipped in and reinforced with cloth backing.</li><li>Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards.</li></ul>

Maps of the District of Columbia and City of Washington

First edition of this map of the eastern United States, annotated as the tide of the Civil War turned against the Confederacy. 	<ul><li>Edward Stanford (English).</li><li>London: Edward Stanford, [1861].</li><li>Original hand-colored linen-backed map dissected into 48 sections.</li><li>Ads for other Stanford publications to front and rear.</li><li>19 locations underlined in contemporary red, blue, and black. Many roads and railways highlighted in contemporary red.</li><li>Initials “M. S.” to label.</li><li>Housed in original slipcase with typographic label.</li></ul> The annotations on this map indicate that it was sold during a turning point in the Civil War: 19 battle locations are underlined, the latest of which is Chicamaunga, fought in September 1863. By this time, the Confederacy had suffered several high-profile losses, including Gettysburg and Vicksburg (both also underlined), and the fall of Atlanta would come a year later.&nbsp;The owner of the map, “M. S.,” was clearly an interested observer of the conflict with a desire to stay up-to-date. They were also willing to pay 15 shillings for the most expensive folded version.The underlines are done in red, blue, and black, with no discernible scheme. “Big name” battles are highlighted, as well as smaller conflicts such as the Battle of the Hemp Bales in Lexington, Missouri. Historian Richard Stephenson describes “the broad interest” of British popular cartographers in the Civil War, identifying Edward Stanford as a “major contemporary map publisher.” Annotations of Confederate-won battles slightly outnumber those won by the Union, possibly reflecting England’s economic interest in the South’s success in the conflict.&nbsp;The Library of Congress copy cited in Stephenson’s catalogue notes a similar campaign of underlining the locations of battles and tracing roads and railroads; this indicates that it may have been added by the publisher. The quality of the underlining in the present copy is higher than that of the Library of Congress copy. It captures the progress of a critical moment in the war, when the outcome of the Civil War was still uncertain.

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