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Jean Lattré. Carte des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique suivant le Traité de Paix de 1783. Paris: Chez Lattré, Graveur du Roi, 1784.
Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin, this is the first map to delineate the full extent of the United States of America after the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. The cartouche features symbols of the new American nation, including the Great Seal of the United States and the Eagle of the Society of the Cincinnati. This rare first state of the first edition of Lattré’s map includes a detailed chronology of the war affixed to the left and right margins. [2012]
Christopher Colles. A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America.
[New York, 1789].
This is a set of seventeen single-page maps from Colles’s series, which document the roads, places and residences along the routes from New York City to Stratford, to Poughkeepsie and to Danbury, Connecticut at the time of the Revolutionary War and immediately after. The mapmaker, Christopher Colles, surveyed the routes using a perambulator of his own invention, which measured mileage by adding up the revolutions of a wheel trailed behind a carriage. By this method he created the earliest American road guide of great precision and accuracy. Subscribers typically purchased sets of maps by desired geographic area. [2015]
John Filson. Map of Kentucky Drawn from Actual Observations. London: John Stockdale, 1793.
First published in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1784 to accompany the book The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, Filson’s map was key to promoting western settlement in the years immediately following the Revolution. This edition, published in London in 1793, included an additional inset showing “A Plan of the Rapids in the Ohio River.” A veteran of the Revolutionary War, John Filson moved to Kentucky in the early 1780s. He became an investor in a large tract of land that would eventually be named Cincinnati, in honor of the Society and the veterans who settled there. [1992]
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