Maine County Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored, USA c.1864

Name: Maine County Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored, USA c.1864
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-35
Price: 300 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Kind: Maps
Size: 45.7 × 35.7 cm (18 × 14.1 in)
Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light general age toning and minor marginal spots or handling marks typical for antique atlas maps. Small edge nicks at outer margisn, but outside printed area.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Maine
Reference: BG-13952-35

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The state of Maine, "Johnson's Maine by Johnson and Ward," a hand-colored steel-engraved county map published in New York around 1864. The title is lettered at the lower right in a sea of the Atlantic, with a key to the symbols below it.

The counties are tinted in pink and green, and the northern part of the state is drawn as a large area of unsettled land divided into a grid of townships, with a dense network of lakes, among them Moosehead Lake in the center. Along the southern coast, the sheet records the deeply indented shoreline with its numerous islands and bays. Towns and county seats are lettered, rivers run down toward the Atlantic, and the border with New Brunswick and Canada at the top and east is picked out in color. The sheet is bordered by Johnson's ornamental frame and carries the plate number 22 in the upper right corner.

Maine was admitted as a state in 1820, and a map of this kind shows how little of its inland north was settled in the middle of the century compared with the coast.

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