MAP #: 295S5
CARTOGRAPHER : SCOTT, JOSEPH
DATE: 1795
SHORT TITLE : MARYLAND
REMAINING TITLE & ID : (NO CARTOUCHE, BOTTOM LEFT CORNER). THERE IS A SMALL UNTITLED INSET OF WESTERN MARYLAND (CENTER LEFT). SCALE OF 40 MILES (UNDER TITLE). 8 POINT COMPASS ROSE (ABOVE TITLE). MAP EXTENDS INTO THE LATITUDE BORDERS ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT SIDES. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE MARGINS. LONGITUDE FROM PHILADELPHIA (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).
THE PATOMAC RIVER IS CONSISTENTLY SO SPELLED. BELLE AIR, HAVRE DE GRACE, LEONARD T., PALUXENT R. AND WIGHCOMICO ALL APPEAR. THE YOUGHIOGINI R. IS SO SPELLED.
A SECOND STATE APPEARED IN 1807 IN SCOTT'S THE NEW AND UNIVERSAL GAZETEER, WITH ONLY SOME RECUTTING ON THE PLATE. SCOTT, PRIOR TO THE PUBLICATION OF HIS GAZETTEER AND ATLAS DID CONTRACT ENGRAVING FOR MATHEW CAREY AND OTHERS.
DATA IS FROM WHEAT & BRUN, SABIN, RISTOW AND PHILLIPS ATLASES.
EDITION & STATE INFO : ONLY A SINGLE EDITION IS KNOWN IN TWO STATES.
ED. 1 - STATE 1-(1795)- THIS IS THE STATE DESCRIBED.
- STATE 2-(1807)- THIS STATE APPEARED IN SCOTT'S THE NEW AND UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER. SOME LINES HAVE BEEN RECUT BUT NO GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES OR ADDITIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. THE SHORELINE OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY HAS BEEN RECUT. SINCE THE SHADING HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED, THE ISLANDS AND LAND ARE SHARPLY OUTLINED AGAINST THE WORN SHADING OF THE WATER.
DATA IS FROM WHEAT & BRUN.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A BLACK AND WHITE COPY OF STATE ONE DESCRIBED HEREIN WITH AN ACQ. # OF C017-DIG AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-423. IN ADDITION THE COLLECTION HAS A WEAK COPY OF STATE 1 OF THIS MAP IN OUTLINE COLORING WITH AN ACQ. # OF BB023-DUD AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399- 218.
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : WHEAT, JAMES CLEMENTS & CHRISTIAN F. BRUN, MAPS AND CHARTS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BEFORE 1800 A BIBLIOGRAPHY, LONDON: HOLLAND PRESS LIMITED, 1978 REPRINT OF A 1969 YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATION, 110, # 512; PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF MAPS OF AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, NEW YORK: BURT FRANKLIN, UNDATED REPRINT OF A 1901 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLICATION, 395; PHILLIPS, PHILIP LEE, A LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD., A 1971 REPRINT OF A 1909 PUBLICATION OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, IV, # 4521A, MAP [12]; SABIN, JOSEPH, A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME, NEW YORK: JOSEPH SABIN, 1868-1936, # 78331; RISTOW, WALTER W., AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS COMMERCIAL CARTOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, DETROIT: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1985, 138, 151-154.
July 8, 1991
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