MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
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Not much is known about Finley, but it is known that he produced atlases as early as 1818 and employed talented Philadelphia engravers such as H. S. Tanner, J. Vallance, and J. Thackara. Their work is considered to have been remarkable for their distinctiveness and elegance. The period 1820 to 1840 is considered the Golden Age of American cartography. During this period copper plate engraving accompanied by hand coloring reached its zenith. The original map is 11" x 9" but this reprint was slightly modified to accommodate our archival page protectors. |
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Not much is known about Finley, but it is known that he produced atlases as early as 1818 and employed talented Philadelphia engravers such as H. S. Tanner, J. Vallance, and J. Thackara. Their work is considered to have been remarkable for their distinctiveness and elegance. The period 1820 to 1840 is considered the Golden Age of American cartography. During this period copper plate engraving accompanied by hand coloring reached its zenith. The original map is 11" x 9" but this reprint was slightly modified to accommodate our archival page protectors. |
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Before venturing into the map publishing business, he had been an assistant editor of the American Encyclopedia. His first atlas, Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgement of Universal Geography, Modern and Ancient, was published in Boston in.1835 and was an abridgement of a French atlas. Later that year, he also published A Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical and Commercial. His final atlas, An Illustrated Atlas, Geological, Statistical, and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries, was published in 1838. This edition was larger and has become more scarce than his earlier atlas. This hand colored map was engraved by G. W. Boynton and published in Boston by T. G. Bradford in 1838. It was taken from the scarce large edition of Bradford's An Illustrated Atlas, Geological, Statistical, and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries . The original size of this map was 14" x 11.5" but this reprint was slightly reduced in size to accommodate our archival page protectors. |
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A New Map of Kentucky with Its Canals, Roads, Distances 1850 -- $8.95
from Place to Place, Along the Stage and Steam Boat Routes . . .
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This detailed and interesting map was hand colored by county and shows towns, rivers, lakes, railroads, roads, distances, forts, etc. Tables of Steam Boat routes and distances are also shown. There is a large insert of the area around Lexington, the Washington and Clarksburg area and the Falls of Ohio, including Jeffersonville, Louisville, Shippingport and Portland |