REFINE     Who What Where When     REMOVE Covers Railroad United States 1856 WHAT Canals (1) Guide Book (1) Pocket Map (1) WHERE Canada (1) U.S. North East (1) WHO Charles Desilver (1) Dinsmore & Co. (1) Dinsmore & Company (1) Drake, Ira S. (1) Fisher, Richard Swainson (1) More

REFINE  Browse All : Covers and Railroad of United States from 1856 1-2 of 2 Fisher, Richard Swainso... Covers: Railroads & Can... 1856 Pocket Map   Author [Fisher, Richard Swainson, Dinsmore & Co.] Note A scarce railroad map of the eastern U.S. with an untitled inset map of North America. The style is a greatly simplified cartography showing railroads and canals. At least two other versions of this map appeared in 1856: one without the inset map (Karrow 1-1609), and one with a different inset map of the City of New York (Modelski 30). Dinsmore published the American Railway Guide in the 1850's which included a smaller railway map (see Modelski 10, 16). Richard Fisher wrote for both Colton and Johnson - Statistical Gazetteer, History of the Civil War, text in the Johnson Family Atlas and Colton's General Atlas, and others. In covers of J.G. Wells, who is also listed as publisher of Karrow 1-1610. Schonberg & Co. are listed as "Acrographers" which is a form of printing we have never seen before. Map is full color by state, and folded into embossed brown cloth covers 16x10 with "New Rail Road Map Of The U. States & Canada J.G. Wells" and a decorative leaf design stamped in gilt. Relief shown by hachure. Mitchell, Samuel August... Covers: Traveller's Gui... 1856 Guide Book   Author [Mitchell, Samuel Augustus, Young, James H., Drake, Ira S., Hazzard, John L.] Note The contents calls for only one map but a second new map is added of the entire U.S., from the Mitchell Universal Atlas plate. The Drake1856 map adds J.L. Hazzard to the title and compared to the 1855 issue shows several new proposed railroads, particularly in the area west of the Missouri River (possibly the proposed Pacific Railroad routes). The Mitchell/Young U.S. map is slightly different from the same map in the 1856 Universal Atlas, in its showing of the Pacific Railroad routes. Bound in dark green leather covers with "Mitchell's New Traveler's Guide Through The United States" and a beautiful illustration stamped in gilt. The two insets in the first map are titled "Gold Region Of California" and "District Of Columbia". Both maps in outline color. Prime meridians are in Washington D.C. and Greenwich. 1-2 of 2

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