21.   [North Carolina]   Universal Magazine. A New and Accurate Map of North Carolina in North America.    From the October, 1779 issue of the Universal Magazine.   [London.]     10 1/2 x 14."   Later outline color.  Trimmed close to neat line at left and right margins.  Otherwise, very good.

          A nice map of North Carolina during the American Revolution.  Numerous rivers, several towns and a number of court house are identified.  Good coastal detail.  Counties are named but their boundaries are not indicated.  Jolly, Maps of America in Periodicals before 1800: 333.    [Item no. 2604.]   SOLD.
 

22.   [Northeast United States.]    Moll.   New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pensilvania. By H. Moll Geographer.   1729 or later.  From Moll's Atlas Minor.   [London.]   7 7/8 x 10 3/4."   Outline color of colonial boundaries.  Two old vertical folds, each with separation of about 1/2" at upper edge.  Light to moderate staining, most noticeable in ocean area.  Strong impression. 

          A wonderful early portrayal of the present-day northeastern United States from Grand Manan Island to the Delaware Bay.  It is an updated and slightly larger version of Moll's 1708 map of the same title.  Cape Cod is oddly shaped and Nantucket is styled "Nantucher I."  New Jersey is shown as East Jersey and West Jersey.  The most interesting feature of the map is the long description of the colonial postal system that appears in the lower right corner of the map.  The note describes the postal routes, the time of dispatch and the location of post offices. For example, "The Western Post setts out from Philadelphia every Fryday leaving Letters at Burlington and Pert Amboy and arrives at New York on Sunday night..."   McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513-1800: 729.2.      [Item no. 2690.]   SOLD.
 

23.   [Pacific Ocean.]   Lotter, Tobias.    Carte de l'Ocean Pacifique au Nord de l'Equateur, et des Cotes qui le Bornet des Deux Cotes...jusqu'en 1780... [Title repeated in German.]   1781.  Augsburg.   18 1/2 x 20."   Minor foxing.  One long vertical crease, perhaps from the printing process as well as other minor creases.  Two tiny holes at centerfold.  Trimmed close at lower margin.  Outline and wash color, perhaps original.  Overall, a very good example.

          This is the first folio map to show Cook's third voyage.  It was based on a map appearing in the December, 1780 issue of the London Magazine, though the explanatory notes below the map say it was from the Gentleman's Magazine of that month.  In addition to the track of Cook's voyage, the map shows "the most recent discoveries of the Spanish, Russians and English through 1780."    [Item no. 2662.]   SOLD.
 

24.   [Pennsylvania Coal Mining Region.]   Jones, George.    Map of the Wyoming & Lackawanna Valleys by Geo. Jones, Principally from a Map Constructed by Col. John L. Butler of Wilkesbarre.    1830.  (Hezekiah Howe, publisher.)   [New Haven.]   8 1/8 x 14 5/8."   Light foxing and a couple of small spots, otherwise very good.  Printed on relatively heavy paper.  Map still bound in periodical, which itself is generally very good other than staining to paper wrapper and some erosion of paper spine.

          An outstanding small map of the Pennsylvania coal region from about ten miles west of Wilkes Barre to Carbondale.  In the Wyoming Valley, numerous "coal beds now exposed" are indicated.  The Lackawanna Valley, however, bears the legend: "This valley also abounds in coal but the beds have been opened only in a few spots."  Below the geographic detail is a cross-section depicting the elevation of "Rail Road from the Coal mine at Carbondale to the Canal on the Lackawaxen River."  Segments of the cross-section are labeled according to the use of horse power, steam power (locomotives) or self-acting (gravity) to move the coal cars.  An early and informative map of Pennsylvania coal mining.  The map is still bound into the July, 1830 issue of The American Journal of Science and Arts in which it accompanies an article by Benjamin Silliman entitled "Notice of the Anthracite Region in the Valley of the Lackawanna and of Wyoming on the Susquehanna."  Not in Marcou and Marcou.  Not in Phillips.    [Item no. 2602.]   $350.00.
 

25.   [South Carolina.]   Political Magazine.    A New and Accurate Map of the Chief Parts of South Carolina, and Georgia, From the Best Authorities.   From the June, 1780 issue of the Political Magazine.   London.   11 x 14 5/8."   Light offsetting.  Very minor stains.  Lower right corner misfolded.

          A very nicely detailed map of most of South Carolina and a small part of Georgia (including Savannah and Augusta).  Numerous townships, parishes and precincts are identified with their boundaries.  A fairly extensive road system is shown.  There is also good detail of the shore, with many islands, sounds, points and inlets identified.  Uncommon in the trade.  Jolly, Maps of America in Periodicals before 1800: 343.  MapForum.com [Web-based], Printed Maps of the Carolinas, 1590-1800: 122.      [Item no. 2675.]   SOLD.
 

26.   [United States.]   Melish.    United States of America Compiled from the latest & best Authorities By John Melish.   1818.  Published by Murray Draper Fairman & Co.   Philadelphia.   16 x 19 5/8."   A very good example with strong outline color.  Repaired 2 1/2" tear into blank ocean area from right margin. Strip of about 5" of light to moderate soiling parallel to centerfold at lower edge; a couple of small (printer's ?) smudges in that same area. 

          This is the first state of Melish's map that portrays the United States as far west as the Rockies.  A vast Missouri Territory occupies most of the area west of the Mississippi River.  "Texas" appears to apply only to the coastal area of the current state of Texas.  Among the notations on the map are "Turtle Lake / Head of the Mississippi" and "Clarks Canoes stop 3000 miles from the Mississippi."  Also, "Highest Peak" -- which would first be labeled "Pike's Peak" in Robinson's map of 1819 -- is identified.  In an apparent post-production addition by an early owner of this map, the new territories of Missouri (boot heel-less) and Arkansas (including much of present-day Oklahoma) have been outlined in color but not labeled.  Interestingly, the few towns identified in Maine include Robinstown and Eddington.   Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West: 327.    [Item no. 2687.]   SOLD.
 

27.   [United States Wall Map.]   Phelps & Ensign.  Phelps & Ensign's Travellers' Guide, and Map of the United States, Containing the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat and Canal Routes &c...1842.   1842.  Phelps & Ensign.   New York.   Image size: 25 1/4 x 38."  Sight size: 28 x 41."   Professionally restored; laid down on linen (with maroon cloth trim).  Original outline and wash color.  Age darkened, but not excessively so.  Some surface cracking and small areas of surface loss, particularly to the text and signers of the Declaration of Independence.

          A scarce wall map version of Phelps & Ensign's Traveller's Guide and Map of the United States...  Dated 1842, it has an 1840 copyright date.  It portrays the U.S. west as far as the Rockies.  Fourteen small inset maps, mostly of the areas surrounding major cities, appear at the middle right.  Other features of the map include several historical vignettes (the signing of the Declaration of Independence being the most prominent), the text of the Declaration of Independence, portraits of ten presidents, a small two-hemisphere map of the world, and illustrated tables of the mountains and rivers of the world.   [Item no. 2623.]   $1,750.00.
 

28.  [Virgin Islands: Book with Maps & Views.]   Oldendorp, C. G. A.  Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brueder auf den Caraibischen Inseln St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Jan... [History of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John.]   1777.  bey Christian Friedrich Laur...   Barby [Switzerland].   [16], 1068, [44] pp.   Two volumes bound as one.  Later one-quarter black leather over marbled boards, with minor scuffing.  Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands; gilt title and decorative bands at head and foot of spine.  Contents age-toned with scattered light foxing.  Four folding views and three folding maps bound on tabs at rear; all are bright and very clean.  The map of St. Thomas has a tear of about 1/4" from the right margin, just through the neat lines.  Lacks folding table.

          This is, to our knowledge, the first published work devoted to the history, natural resources and social conditions of the Virgin Islands, then the Danish West Indies.  Oldendorp was a Moravian minister sent to the islands in 1767 to document the history of the Church's missions there.  The book is in two parts.  The first is devoted to the people and customs of the islands, as well as their natural resources.  The second part, edited by Johann Jakob Bossart, provides a detailed history of the Moravian missions to the islands, beginning with that in St. Thomas in 1732.  The volume contains three maps: Caraibische Inseln (12 1/8 x 13 7/8"), Die Insel Sanct Thomas mit den mehresten Plantagen 1767 [including the western end of St. John] (7 x 12 1/2") and Die Insel Sainte Croix mit den Namen der Plantagen die bestaendig sind...1767 [with a symbol used to identify which plantations have a Zuckermuhle] (6 7/8 x 12 5/8").  Also bound in are four copper-plate engravings: Aussicht von Neu-Herrnhut auf St. Thomas von der Ostseite (7 x 10 1/2"), Friedensthal in St. Croix an einem Bettage...( 7 x 10 1/8"), Aussicht von Friedensthal von der Westseite (7 x 11 1/4") and Bethanien in St. Jan (7 x 8 7/8").  These are undoubtedly among the first views published of the Virgin Islands (and offered here in fine condition).  Oldendorp's work is an underappreciated one, perhaps made somewhat less so by an English translation published in 1987, nearly 200 years after the original.  Sabin: 57152.  Not in Hough and Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College.    [Item no. 2625.]  SOLD.
 

29.   [Virgin Islands: St. Thomas.]   Direccion de Hidrografia.    Plano del Pto de San Tomas.   1809 or later.  [Madrid.]   7 1/8 x 9 3/8."   A bright (probably cleaned) example.  Strong impression.  Minor tears in top margin skillfully repaired. 

          An early and attractive chart of St. Thomas Harbor in the Virgin Islands.  The chart shows the layout of the town of St. Thomas as well as soundings in the harbor.  Water Island (Isla del Agua) is shown and labeled.  Scarce, with only one example listed in the Antique Map Price Record in the past 22 years.  Phillips, A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress: 1223.   [Item no. 2688.]   $600.00.
 

30. [Virgin Islands.]   Direccion de Hidrografia.    Plano del Puerto principal de la Tortola.   1809 or later.   [Madrid.]   7 1/8 x 9 3/8."   A bright (probably cleaned) example.  Strong impression.  Minor tears in upper margin skillfully repaired. 

          An early and attractive chart of what is now known as Road Town Harbor on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.  The chart indicates numerous buildings in Pueblo de Tortola, as well as soundings in the harbor.  The only other labeled feature is Pta. del Castillo.  Scarce, with only one example listed in the Antique Map Price Record in the past 22 years.  Phillips, A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress: 1223.   [Item no. 2689.]   $550.00.