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This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Virgin Islands &, is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

This finely engraved and hand colored 1823 map Bahama's is from Fielding Lucas Jr.'s 1823 American A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps of All the Known Countries in the World, Constructed from the Latest Authority. Various engravers produced the individual maps.  Fielding Lucas Jr. was an early and highly successful American map and chart publisher.  Fielding Lucas Jr. also engaged in other civic, printing and philanthropic endeavors.

Please see  the David Rumsey Map Collection for a thorough bibliographical description of Fielding Lucas Jr.'s A General Atlas,1823 edition along with comments about the high engraving quality of the maps.

      Sampson, Murdock & Co. was a woman owned business directory and map publisher (Mary O. Sampson) whose later 19th c. city directories were widely distributed in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Sampson, Murdock & Co. inserted detailed, color lithographed maps into the directories that were both for business and for travel. The map at hand appears to have been published independently as a stand alone map. Therefore all points of transportation connections for both freight and passenger rail were shown. Concentric circles drawn on the map permit a pedestrian to measure the distance from the center of Providence from zone...

    The City of New York, is a map and an ode to New York City and its people. The map title also serves grammatically as the lead in to a longer narrative about the city and immediately focuses our attention on the topic in print: "The City of New York...is 310 square miles of rock-bottom land, criss-crossed by 5,000 miles of streets and largely bounded by its 580 miles of waterfront. Here about half of its 7,500,000  inhabitants were born and here most of them work. Last year their income was $6,200,000,000."  This map, published by Fortune in its...

    This unique example of Birds Eye View of Casco Bay: Portland, Maine and Surroundings. c. 1905 was owned and used by Officer Lt. Armstrong as a military "site plan" for the U.S. Army's program to prevent malaria during  WWII ^1/  at it primary East Coast base, Casco Bay, Maine. The base was both defensive and offensive in its programs throughout WWII.  Hand written instructions on the face of the map document the actions required or completed  - "Should be done away with", or "Marsh drained" as part of the mosquito eradication program. These notations are along the coast, on...