Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books at Swann Galleries June 3
NEW YORK, New York
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Swann Galleriesâ Thursday, June 3 sale of
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books will feature world cartography with an emphasis on American maps, works from prolific printmakers and ornithologists.
           World maps on offer include offerings of a fine early seventeenth-century
Italian celestial globe comprised of 12 hand-colored engraved gores by Giuseppe de Rossi, after an earlier globe created by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam in 1601 ($15,000-20,000); and five double-page engraved maps of the world and continents by Mercator (family) are on offer ($7,000-10,000).
1823 (dated)
1 : 1100000
Description
A rare and important 1823 first edition Henry Schenck Tanner map of North Carolina and South Carolina. Also included are adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. When this map was illustrated, it represented the finest atlas map of these states then obtainable. It includes a wealth of important firsts, such as the addition of Haywood county (founded in 1808). In addition, it features an impressive richness of detail, naming mills, iron works, forts, battle grounds, places of worship, public houses, roads, ferries, and falls. The map remained definitive until new more details maps were produced after the American Civil War.
The particulars of the Adams-Onís Treaty, it turns out, were greatly aided by a map that was produced by one John Melish, a traveler, merchant, author, and cartographer of Scottish origin who ended up being the first mapmaker to create a coast-to-coast charting of the United States. But Melish also is known in the annals of history for a cartographical blunder that both misplaced the 100
th meridian by a hundred or so miles to the east and failed to recognize the seemingly obvious fact that the Red River, in the general vicinity of the 100
th meridian, is split into multiple forks: the North Fork, the Elm Fork, the Salt Fork, and the southern Prairie Dog Town Fork. (For those who are not currently looking at a map, the region in question is roughly where the Texas Panhandle’s vertical, eastern border with Oklahoma intersects with the somewhat horizontal portion of the Texas-Oklahoma border that is more or less traced by the Red River.)
MARYSVILLE Fighting 20 mph winds that made staying steady a monumental chore, the 93-year-old World War II soldier and the 74-year-old sailor who served in Vietnam walked together to the lowered flags that honored comrades who had paid the price of war with their freedom.
Then Army veteran Joe Melish and Navy veteran Joel Denman together helped to raise the American flag and the POW/MIA flag to the top of the pole in front of Walnut Crossing Assisted Living Community.
The pair then turned and saluted as an American Legion honor guard fired a three-volley salute and a lone bugler played taps, all part of a solemn ceremony Friday in honor of National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day.
By HOLLY ZACHARIAH | The Columbus Dispatch | Published: April 9, 2021 MARYSVILLE, Ohio (Tribune News Service) Fighting 20 mph winds that made staying steady a monumental chore, the 93-year-old World War II soldier and the 74-year-old sailor who served in Vietnam walked together to the lowered flags that honored comrades who had paid the price of war with their freedom. Then Army veteran Joe Melish and Navy veteran Joel Denman together helped to raise the American flag and the POW/MIA flag to the top of the pole in front of Walnut Crossing Assisted Living Community. The pair then turned and saluted as an American Legion honor guard fired a three-volley salute and a lone bugler played taps, all part of a solemn ceremony Friday in honor of National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day.