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  • Young's Reise=Charte durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord America. Enthaltend alle Strassen, Dampfboot und Canal = Stationen, Staedte, Dorfer und Ansiedlungen. Fur Deutsche bearbeitet nach dem Americanischen Original von Hammer.

Young's Reise=Charte durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord America. Enthaltend alle Strassen, Dampfboot und Canal = Stationen, Staedte, Dorfer und Ansiedlungen. Fur Deutsche bearbeitet nach dem Americanischen Original von Hammer.

  • ARTIST: J. Young

  • PUBLISHER: Published in Nuremberg by Freidrich Campe.

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: c.1840.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 16 5/8 x 21 1/2" (42.3 x 54.6 cm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Fascinating early German piracy of J.H. Young & S. A. Mitchell’s map “Mitchell's Travellers Guide through the United States.” The Young – Mitchell map was first issued in 1832 and was a tremendous success and was issued for thirty years. The German publisher, Friedrich Campe copied the map adding German titles to some of the main names. The map includes insets of Charleston, Washington DC - Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Niagara Falls, Cincinnati, Albany, and New Orleans. The German version was originally issued in and dated 1837. This particular impression drops that date from the cartouche and adds completely new cartography for Eastern Texas. The border between Louisiana and Texas erroneously follows the Neches River and Angelina River until it forks to the west where upon the border goes straight up to Pecan Point on the Red River. Many towns and roads have been added in Texas including Crockett, Washington, Houston and Beaumont. Two forts are noted, Parker’s Fort and Fort Houston. An unusual and apparently unrecorded edition.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Segmented into eight sections and backed onto period linen. Retains period marble paper slipcase.

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Original outline color.

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps