ATLAS ACCOMPANYING GREENLEAF'S MAP AND STATISTICAL SURVEY OF MAINE... [cover title].
Greenleaf, Moses:
Portland: Shirley & Hyde, 1829. Seven maps and plates (some partially colored). Folio. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards, printed orange paper label on front board. Binding worn at edges and spine ends. Endpapers foxed and stained. Most maps and plates with an old stain along the folds, or with a closed tear or two (but with no loss). Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A rare, early, and significant American atlas. Greenleaf was Maine's first mapmaker, and this is one of the earliest state atlases, preceded only by those of South Carolina and New York. Greenleaf's STATISTICAL VIEW of Maine was first published in 1816, without an atlas, and then enlarged and retitled in 1829, with the addition of the present atlas. This atlas volume is quite rare and contains the best maps of the area made up to that time. Moses Greenleaf has been give a great amount of credit for promoting Maine as an entity separate from Massachusetts, a task he began with his "Map of the District of Maine" in 1815, followed the next year by his first book. After Maine attained statehood in 1820, Greenleaf published a revised map and then began compiling more and newer information for the maps that eventually appeared in the present atlas. The map was published by Shirley & Hyde of Portland, Maine, but the maps and plates were engraved by William Chapin of New York. The maps and plates, in the order in which they appear, are: 1) "Map of the Principal Rivers, Mountains and Highland Ranges of the State of Maine, 1828." 22 x 13 3/4 inches. 2) "Sketch from Bouchette's Maps of Upper & Lower Canada and the District of Gaspe." 16 1/2 x 17 inches. 3) "Sketch of the Imaginary Ranges of Highlands Reported by the British Surveyors under the Treaty of Ghent, as extending across the State of Maine." 12 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. 4) "Vertical Sections, Exhibiting the comparative Altitudes of the principal Highlands and Rivers of the State of Maine, 1828." 20 x 29 1/4 inches. 5) "Map Exhibiting the Principal Original Grants & Sales of Lands in the State of Maine." 32 x 24 inches. 6) "Map of the Inhabited Part of the State of Maine." 20 1/4 x 24 inches. 7) "Meteorological Diagrams. Monthly means & extremes of temperature at Brunswick & Williamsburgh in the State of Maine." 15 1/2 x 12 inches. HOWES G393, "aa." SABIN 28666. PHILLIPS MAPS, pp.384-85. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1772. RISTOW, AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS, pp.94-96. RUMSEY 3441.
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