Chart of the Coast of America from C. Eliz to Mouse Harbor from the Latest Surveys

by Matthew Clark

$50,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Printed cartographic Americana of the greatest rarity, a map of the Maine and Cape Cod coasts from the first American-made atlas: The first totally American production of its kind. Garvan Following the American Revolution, as the United States began to form a political identity within their newly-defined boundaries, American cartographers began to wrest control from their former colonial rulers on how those boundaries would be depicted. In 1784, Abel Buell, a Connecticut

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