Pocket Maps from Donald Heald Rare Books

St. Louis, Missouri: Julius Hutawa, 1863. Folding lithographic map (sheet size: 24 x 19½ inches) by Hutawa, hand-coloured in outline, small repaired tears, tipped onto the inner lower cover of the original drab paper-covered boards. An interesting and rare Gold Rush-era map, showing the locations of various western Indian tribes, overland routes, and the region comprising present-day Texas, New… Read more about this item

Chicago: Ceorge F. Cram, 1876. Colored engraved folding map, 29½ x 39 inches. Folding into original 16mo. cloth covers, stamped in gilt and blind. A bit of light staining in the upper portion. An attractive copy, vibrantly colored. A very attractive Missouri pocket map, beautifully printed and colored by county. Railroad lines are a special feature of the map,… Read more about this item

Lawrence, Kansas [Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.], 1856. Lithographed [by L. H. Bradford & Co.] folding pocket map, Indian lands hand-coloured, three vignette views of buildings in Kansas. Folds into original green cloth covers, covers decoratively blocked in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, printed letter by Whitman and Searl on the inside front pastedown. A Bleeding Kansas… Read more about this item

[Washington]: Coastal Survey Office, 1863. Folding map, (24 x 25 1/2 inches), mounted in twenty-four sections on linen. Original card covers with printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription on label. Light wear. Minor foxing and wear to map. Rare field operations map of Mississippi. This rare Civil War map was created by the Coast Survey office, the main… Read more about this item

[Washington], 1864. Folded map, 24 x 33 inches, in thirty-two segments mounted on linen. Original card covers with printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription on label. Some light wear and minor soiling. Detailed field map for the Union Army in Northern Mississippi and Alabama. A highly detailed map of the northern half of Mississippi and Alabama, showing the… Read more about this item

Milwaukee: Silas Chapman, 1856. Colored folding map, (29 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches). Bound into original 16mo. brown cloth folder, gilt-lettered cover. Folder slightly worn and faded. Slight foxing on map. Colors on map generally bright and clean. Overall very good. A variant state of this important Minnesota map, without priority, published in as many as five versions in… Read more about this item

New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, 1876. Folding pocket map, full period hand coloring. Inset of the British Provinces on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Folds into publisher's blindstamped cloth covers, title stamped in gilt in the upper cover, Colton ad on the front pastedown. Large and colorful Colton map of New England. This decorative map depicts the… Read more about this item

New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, 1869. Folding pocket map, full period hand-colouring, ornamental border. Census table at lower right. Folds into publisher's blindstamped cloth covers, title stamped in gilt on the upper cover, Colton ad on the front pastedown. Colton pocket map of Iowa. Iowa experienced explosive growth during the 1860s, largely as a result of the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1834. Full period color, 17 x 20 1/2 inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Statistical table laid down on inside front cover. Five insets (see below). Minor repairs. This is the second pocket map edition of D. H. Vance's map of New York State with the imprint of S. Augustus Mitchell. Mitchell had purchased… Read more about this item

New York: Colton & Co, 1870. Full period color, 29¾ x 42 inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Splits on folds neatly repaired. The main map shows Manhattan Island as far north as 129th Street on a scale of four inches to the mile. A large inset at the left shows upper Manhattan and much of the Bronx.… Read more about this item

New York: Colton & Co, 1882. Engraved map, with full period color, on two sheets, that if joined would measure 30 x 62¼ inches, gilt-stamped brown cloth covers, expertly repaired, in very good condition. The rarest nineteenth-century map of Long Island With a large inset of "Brooklyn, New York, Jersey City, Hoboken, etc." This is probably the largest… Read more about this item

New York: Published by J. Disturnell, 1848. Engraved on steel by Sherman & Smith. Full period color, 19 x 23-1/2", folding into gilt stamped brown cloth covers. Two insets: The St. Lawrence River, from the New York State Line to Quebec; and City of New York with Part of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh. This is a finely engraved and detailed… Read more about this item

New York: Colton, & Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1861. Period color, 30¼ x 34¾ inches, folding into gilt-stamped dark brown cloth covers. Fine condition. Not in Rumsey.

Utica, NY: Published by William Williams, 1828. Engraved by V. Balch & Stiles." Period outline color, 19-3/4 x 20-1/2" on a 19-3/4 x 28-1/4" sheet with nine columns of text entitled Stage, Canal and Steam-Boat Register at right. Folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Two insets: Profile of the Grand Erie Canal, and Profile of the Champlain Canal. Three… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, 1864. Some period color, 26 x 36 inches. Folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Minor repairs, else very nice. The watershed of the Allegheny River in the "Oil District," Venago County, is marked in red. A reduced version of Melish's map of Pennsylvania, reissued by Barnes in 1849. This reduced version was first published in 1856, apparently without… Read more about this item

New York: Colton & Company, 1853. Full period color, 24 x 28¼ inches. Ornate decorative border. Folding into brown cloth covers, later paper label on front cover. Sales label for J.H. Colton & Co., 86 Cedar St., NY, on inside front cover. One of Colton's "Railroad & Township Maps" series of the various states. The map bears the copyright… Read more about this item

New York, 1851. Period outline color, 20 x 25½, folding into red cloth covers. Table at lower left: Stations and Distances on Railroads in, and Running out of New York State. Table at right: Population of New York. A brightly colored early map of New York State with decorative motifs and borders. Not in Phillips; not in Rumsey. … Read more about this item

Utica: William Williams, 1828. Engraved by V. Balch & Stiles." Period outline color, (19 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches on a 19 3/4 x 28 1/4 inch sheet) with nine columns of text entitled "Stage, Canal and Steam-Boat Register" at right. Folding into gilt-stamped brown leather covers. Three columns of descriptive text entitled "Erie Canal." Fine condition. Second edition,… Read more about this item

New York: H.H. Lloyd, 1866. Rich full period color. On two sheets that form one map, 36½ x 50½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped dark green cloth covers. First edition. This is an exceedingly detailed wall map in pocket format, that shows the environs of New York City on a scale of two and one-half miles to the inch. The… Read more about this item

New York: J.H. Colton & Co, 1836. Period outline color, 18¼ x 21½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped red leather covers. A fine example. Second edition of Burr's smaller map of New York, with the copyright 1833, but dated 1836 below the title. This was one of the first maps published by the distinguished firm of Colton. "Engraved and Printed… Read more about this item