Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

177 c   PHELPS, HUMPHREY; and ATWOOD, J.M. Phelps’s National Map of the United States, a Travellers Guide. Hand-colored engraved pocket map with decorative vignette borders. 20 1 / 2 x25 1 / 2 inches, folding into 12mo format gilt stamped morocco case with “Phelps’ Traveler’s Guide Through the United States” booklet, front cover and pamphlet detached; map with minor separations at fold intersections. New York: Ensign, Thayer & Co., 1851 [300/500] 178 c   PHELPS, HUMPHREY. Phelps & Ensign’s Traveller’s Guide, and Map of the United States. Hand-colored engraved pocket map. 17x23 inches, folding into 12mo format gilt stamped morocco case with “Traveller’s Guide” booklet, worn; map with several splits along at fold intersections. New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1842 [300/500] 179 c   (PITTSBURGH.) Krebs Bros.; and Miller, J.R. Map of Pittsburgh Allegheny and Adjacent Boroughs. Large hand-colored lithographed pocket map. 27 1 / 2 x36 inches sheet size, wide margins; issued folding now flat, minor strengthening of fold intersections on verso; publisher’s cloth case separate, but present. [Pittsburgh], 1869 (but revised to 1880) [600/900] Scarce plan of Pittsburgh and the neighboring boroughs as it appeared in the 19th century; many of the outlying wards on the map were later consolidated with the rapid expansion of Pennsylvania’s Steel City. 179