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

130 c   (MISSISSIPPI RIVER). Coloney, Myron; and Fairchild, Sidney B. Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters. Hand- colored lithographed strip map on five joined sheets backed with linen and spool cranked into its original copper cylinder case. 129x2 1 / 2 inches map size, 2 3 / 4 x1 3 / 4 inches case size; light edge fray, some staining and printed text loss at terminal edge, copper end tab re-attached with tape. [St. Louis: Gast, Moeller & Co., 1866] [2,000/4,000] A nicely surviving nineteenth-century Mississippi River steamboat promotion piece; unspooled, the artifact charts the river’s entire 2,600 mile course. 131 c   MITCHELL, SAUMUEL AUGUS- TUS; andYOUNG, JAMES H. Map of the United States. Hand-colored engraved wall map of the eastern United States on 4 sheets joined. 47x37 1 / 4 inches overall, wide margins; backed on modern canvas, toning, small areas of infill primarily at margins, soft creases or cracks. First edition. Ristow, page 309. Philadelphia, 1831 [1,500/2,500] 132 c   MONK, JACOB. New Map of That Portion of North Ameri- ca, Exhibiting the United States and Territories, the Canadas, New Bruns- wick, Nova Scotia, and Mexico, also, Central America, and the West India Islands. Hand-colored engraved wall map on four sheets joined. 58x62 inches overall size; mounted on original linen with orig- inal wooden rollers; varnish yellowed as usual, light surface wear, some damp along top and right edges, but nicer than com- monly found. Baltimore, 1853 [700/1,000] 130