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Boston: Matthew Clark, 1790. Engraved map on two folding sheets joined, irregularly shaped as issued, sheet size approximately 23 3/4 x 33 1/2 inches. Expert restoration at the folds. Chart numbers 5 and 6. Printed cartographic Americana of the greatest rarity, a map of the Maine and Cape Cod coasts from the first American-made atlas: "The first totally American production of its kind." [Garvan] Following the American Revolution, as the United States began to form a political identity within their newly-defined boundaries, American cartographers began to wrest control from their former colonial rulers on how those boundaries would be depicted. In 1784, Abel Buell, a Connecticut silversmith and engraver, produced the first map of the United States published in America; in 1789, Christopher Colles, a New York engineer, would begin publishing strip maps of American roads; and in 1790, Matthew Clark, a Boston merchant and auctioneer, published the country's very first atlas. Clark's business largely… Read More

[Boston: Matthew Clark, 1790. Engraved map on two folding sheets joined, irregularly shaped as issued, sheet size approximately 24 x 48 3/4 inches. Expert restoration at the folds. Chart numbers 7 and 8. Printed cartographic Americana of the greatest rarity: a map of the Long Island and Cape Cod coasts from the first American-made atlas, "the first totally American production of its kind" (Garvan). Following the American Revolution, as the United States began to form a political identity within their newly-defined boundaries, American cartographers began to wrest control from their former colonial rulers on how those boundaries would be depicted. In 1784, Abel Buell, a Connecticut silversmith and engraver, produced the first map of the United States published in America; in 1789, Christopher Colles, a New York engineer, would begin publishing strip maps of American roads; and in 1790, Matthew Clark, a Boston merchant and auctioneer, published the country's very first atlas. Clark's business largely… Read More