PHELPS & ENSIGN, Publishers. Phelps & Ensign's Traveller's Guide, and Map of the United States... New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1841 [copyright 1837].

Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets hand-colored in outline, 671 x 987 mm visible area, framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within ornate border, insets of a world map, chief rivers of the world, principal mountain ranges, and the text of the Declaration of Independence reproducing the signatures and with a cartoon rendering of the signing, inset plans of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and the District of Columbia; several steel-engraved vignettes in bottom margin (see below). (Some overall browning, some cracking or minor losses, a few stains.)

With vignettes in lower margin, including portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson. With vignettes of the Landing of the Pilgrims, the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Bunker's Hill, and Washington's farewell to his army, and with a large engraved vignette of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Phelps and Ensign's map was issued with various copyright dates, from 1837 to 1840. The present edition includes Stephen F. Austin's colony in Texas, and reaches further west than most maps of the period, extending to the Rockies, and including Missouri territory, New Mexico, and Texas as a separate political entity. RARE: OCLC locates only three copies of this edition, none of which include the steel-engraved vignettes in the lower margin.

Property from the Collection of Julie Riedl, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

PHELPS & ENSIGN, Publishers. Phelps & Ensign's Traveller's Guide, and Map of the United States... New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1841 [copyright 1837].