Matthew Carey and Benjamin Warner: THE SOUTHERN STATES AND MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY. Published 1812-1816. Scarce engraved map depicting the Southeastern United States, including Tennessee and Kentucky, prior to Alabama and Mississippi Statehood and the Adams Onis Treaty; the border between South Carolina and Georgia is undefined, and Florida is divided into West Florida and East Florida. […]
Lot 295: Cary Map of the Southeast, 1821, inc. Alabama
John Cary: A NEW MAP OF PART OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, CONTAINING THE CAROLINAS and GEORGIA, ALSO THE FLORIDAS AND PART OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS & C., 1821. Scarce map, the only edition of Cary's map of the Southeastern U.S. to include the Alabama and Mississippi Territories. Also includes Tennessee spelled Tenassee, […]
Lot 293: Three 18th C. U.S. Maps, inc. Southern
Three (3) French and Indian War period maps. 1st item: John Gibson: THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN NORTH AMERICA, Laid Down Agreeable To The Proclamation of Oct. 7, 1763. Published in The Gentleman's Magazine, London, 1763. Hand colored map depicts the borders of the Coastal States including boundaries established at the end of the French and […]
Lot 294: Part of Caroline Meridionale et Partie de la Georgie, 1777
Part of "Caroline Meridionale et Partie de la Georgie Par le Chevr. Bull Gouverneur Lieutenant le Capitaine Gascoign. Chevr. Bryan et de Brahm Arpenteur General de la Caroline Meridle et un des Arpentteurs de la Georgie" by William Gerard De Brahm, published by Chez le Rouge rue des grands Augustins, Paris, 1777. Copper plate engraving […]
Lot 292: Western NC and Southern VA Map (after Mitchell, 1773)
Antonio Zatta: IL PAESE DE CHERACHESI CON LA PARTE OCCIDENTAL DELLA CAROLINA SETTENTRIONALE, E DELLA VIRGINIA. Section of the Italian edition of Mitchell's 1773 map of North America, from Storia Dell'America Settentrionale by Antonio Zatta, John Mitchell, G.T. Raynal (Venice, 1778). Map with outline color engraved on laid paper, depicts a portion of the Southeastern […]
Lot 291: A New Map of Georgia, 1748 Bowen
"A New Map of Georgia, with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Drawn from Original Draughts assisted by the most approved Maps and Charts" by Emanuel Bowen, London, 1748. From "Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca, or Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels" by John Harris. Copper plate engraving of the Georgia colony, Florida, the Carolinas, and […]
Lot 290: Kentucky Map, J. Russell, 1794
A MAP OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY WITH THE ADJOINING TERRITORIES by J. Russell, 1794. London: H.D. Symonds. Includes most of Tennessee, referred to as the "Southwestern Territory" on this map. North of the Ohio River is part of the Northwest Territory, with Fort Washington shown. South of Tennessee and Davidson Counties, is "Reserved for […]
Lot 289: Map of the Tennessee Government, 1795 Smith
"A Map of The Tennassee [sic] Government formerly Part of North Carolina taken Chiefly from Surveys By Genl. D. Smith & others" drawn by Daniel Smith, engraved by Joseph T. Scott, published by Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, 1795. From "General Atlas For Carey's Edition Of Guthrie's Geography Improved" by Matthew Carey. Copper plate engraving of Tennessee […]
Lot 288: KY and TN Map, Cyrus Harris, c. 1796
Cyrus Harris, A MAP OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND THE TENNESSEE GOVERNMENT COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES from Jedidiah Morse's The American Universal Geography. Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1796. Engraving by Amos Doolittle. Indian boundaries and the Southern boundary of the military reservation set aside for veterans of the North Carolina troops are shown. […]
Lot 286: Hand drawn Memphis plat, ref. Fort Pickering
1877 hand drawn and partially colored map of a section of Memphis, Tennessee by Charles Christopher Burke (1815-1901, County Surveyor 1870-1884), depicting numerous city landmarks including the State Female College, and the Bayou Gayosa (buried underground c. 1910 under the area now home to the St. Jude's campus and Danny Thomas Boulevard), McLemore and Race […]