Webster, James W. A rare early travellers' guide to the United States

WEBSTER, JAMES W.

MAP OF THE UNITED STATES. NEW YORK: WEBSTER, 1836

Folding engraved pocket map (sheet size: 16 x 19 5/8 in.; 406 x 498 mm). With full period hand-colouring, with a second folding sheet of accompanying letterpress text within a type-ornament border, entitled "Travellers Guide and Statistical View of the United States" (sheet size: 18 x 22 in.; 457 x 559 mm); small repaired tears each sheet. Original dark blue roan-backed printed paper-covered boards; extremities scuffed.

A rare early travelers’ guide to the United States

"The map is from a discarded plate of H. Phelps' U.S. [1832]...The index is largely stolen from Mitchell's Traveller's Guide index sheet for 1832, however the information on roads and distances is taken from someone else...The map has the characteristic oval portrait of Washington, reengraved...from the Phelps issue. Webster put this together from Phelps, Mitchell and (?) and it is very scarce—I can find no references to it" (Rumsey).

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Rumsey 3450