Travellers Guide and Statistical View of the United States. Published by J. L. Webster, New York.
New York: J. L. Webster, 1834, folding folio broadside within decorative border, with letter press text giving the steamboat routes, roads, distances, statistics, etc., copyrighted by Webster in 1834, with folding colored map, entitled: Phelps & Squires’ Travellers’ Guide, and Map of the United States Containing the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat and Canal Routes. New York: Published by Phelps & Squire, 1837. The map was engraved by J. Wells of Brooklyn. Map measures 42.5 x 57.5 cm. Map repaired on verso along folds with archival tissue, separations at fold joints, with some minor loss, paper somewhat browned, folds into the original 12mo printed paper board case, lettering on covers somewhat faded, else in good condition.
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The
map extends west from the Atlantic coast to portions of Texas, Kansas, Iowa,
and Minnesota. Roads, rivers, towns, villages and cities, and locations of
Indian tribes. Inset maps of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore,
District of Columbia, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, the vicinity
of Niagara Falls, and Detroit. Southern Florida and the northern part of Maine
are also shown in inset maps.
Rare early travelers guide to the United
States. Webster issued several such guides with printed text and with maps
usually borrowed from those of his competitors, mainly Phelps and Mitchell, and
this guide is no different, employing a map published by Phelps and Squire.
Eberstadt 138:724
