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A bright colorful map of the state with a surround of explanatory text. There has been some revision of the eight counties, with some towns, which are delineated, being shifted from one to another. Mountains and rivers are described and shown. Major roads are indicated. Many towns have yet to be subdivided into other towns: Groton, Saybrook, Lyme, Guilford, Branford and quite a few others. 

DELAWARE. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Delaware." Drawn by F. Lucas, Jr; engraved by Young & Delleker. -- Map 11½ x 9½", with text, 16½ x 21". Full color to subject by counties, with state boldly outlined. Condition: some centerfold glue staining; otherwise clean and bright; very good. 

Delaware's three counties are subdivided into 25 "hundreds", with the populations given in the text. The proposed Delaware & Chesapeake Canal appears. Roads, rivers and Cypress Swamp to the south are shown. The Delaware Bay main ship channel is delineated, with shoals named. 

GEORGIA. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Georgia." Drawn by Lucas; engraved by Yeager. -- Map 11½ x 9", with text at sides and below; overall 16½ x 20½". Counties in full color; Indian reserves and the state outlined. Condition: short split at centerfold margins; otherwise bright and clean; very good.  

Georgia is seen in transition. The western Indian territories are being reduced according to the text and noted in the three oversize southern counties. Forty-seven counties and eight towns are listed in the text, with the white and slave populations tabulated; today there are 159. There is no sign of Atlanta. Little flags mark the Revolutionary War battles resulting in American defeats. Rivers and the Okefenokee Swamp are rendered; major roads and Barnard's path are shown. 

KENTUCKY. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Kentucky." Drawn by F. Lucas; engraved by Young and Delleker. -- Map 11 x 18", with text below, 16½ x 20½", accompanied by an additional page of text. Full color to subject by counties; state in outline color. Condition: Minimal offsetting and toning; slight rippling toward centerfold; glue stain on text page. Clean, bright; very good.

A big, bold, colorful map of the first state admitted to the union west of the Appalachians. Sixty-seven counties and four towns are listed in the text with white and non-white population, but we've spotted a few that are missing with no towns identified; there are 120 counties today. We learn from the text that the state is underlain with limestone which naturally drains potential swamps. Major roads are delineated. Rivers  and mountains are shown. 

MARYLAND. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Maryland." Drawn by F. Lucas; engraved by Boyd. -- Map 11 x 19", with text, 16½ x 20½", accompanied by an additional page of text. Full color to subject by counties; bold state outline. Condition: Glue stain at centerfold split at margin; faint offsetting; otherwise clean and bright; overall very good. 

A big, colorful map of the state. Carroll, Garrett, Howard and Wicomico counties have yet to be formed. A table provides the white, free black and slave populations by counties. Roads and natural features are shown, with white and non-white population given for each. Major roads are delineated. The District of Columbia, including the Virginia side, is in color like the counties. The text of Carey & Lea maps was printed by letterpress, and the maps with a copperplate. That they are two impressions is clear here since the map is slightly askew to the text. 

MAINE. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Maine." Engraved by J. Yeager. -- Map 12 x 9½", with text, 16½ x 20½". Full color by counties; state outlined. Condition: light stains in side margins; clean and bright; very good. 

Shown in its second year of statehood, Maine stretched north to the height of land that separates the St. Lawrence watershed from the nearby Atlantic drainage. The border would be contested into the 1840's. Nine out of the existing 16 counties are present, but many of them have been completely reconfigured. The coastal counties are approaching modern form, but Washington and three others reach hundreds of miles to the height of land. The northern geography is somewhat conjectural. Many lakes are named, but there is no evidence of Mount Katahdin.

MASSACHUSETTS. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Massachusetts." Drawn by F. Lucas; engraved by J. Yeager. -- Map 11½ x 19", with text below, 16½ x 20½", accompanied by an additional page of text. Full color to subject by counties with state outlined. Condition: close original top margin as published; slight offsetting of neat line; symmetrical stain in side margins; otherwise clean and bright; very good. 

A big, colorful map of the Commonwealth. At the time Rohoboth [sic] included what is now East Providence, RI. Curiously, Hull is in Suffolk County, perhaps reflecting the primacy of water transportation at the time. A number of towns remain to be further subdivided. Missing are Holyoke, Bourne, Peru, North Adams, and some Vineyard towns, to name a few.  The cartography is quite sophisticated along the coast. River are indicated, but strangely, not the rugged topography in the western part. The accompanying text describes the natural and man-made features, the economy, the government and the history of the Commonwealth.  

MISSISSIPPI. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Mississippi." Drawn by Lucas; engraved by Young & Delleker. -- Map 11½ x 9", with text at sides and below; overall 16½ x 21". Counties in full color; Indian lands and the state outlined. Condition: minimal time toning at edges; bright and clean; very good to excellent.  

Mississippi in its early years of statehood. Over half of it remains either Choctaw or Chickasaw land; with a large tract within the "Choctaw Line" removed to form a huge Hinds County. Otherwise, seventeen counties exist including an isolated Monroe in the northeast, with most of them grided into townships. Rivers are named; principal roads are shown. Several interesting tracts are delineated in Louisiana

NEW HAMPSHIRE. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of New Hampshire." Engraved by Young and Delleker. -- Map 12 x 9", with text, 16½ x 21". Full color to subject by counties. Condition: Repair to centerfold end splits, still very slightly separate; a couple of stains in original margins; a bit of wrinkling; otherwise clean and bright; very good. 

Six counties are present. Towns and grants are named and delineated. Major roads are shown. Natural characteristics and features are described in the text, with significant lakes, rivers and mountains indicated. 

NEW JERSEY. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of New Jersey." Engraved by Kneass. -- Map 11½ x 9½", with text, 16½ x 20½". Full color to subject by counties; bold outline to the state. Condition: centerfold end repaired; faint glue stain trace; slight waviness; otherwise bright and clean; very good.  

New Jersey when it was really the Garden State, along with manufacturing; the text mentions iron. Thirteen counties appear as opposed to 21 today. Major roads are indicated. Little flags mark the important battles - and American successes - in the Revolutionary War.   

OHIO. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Ohio." Drawn by Lucas; engraved by Boyd. -- Map 12 x 9½", with text at sides and below, 16½ x 21". Full color by counties". Condition: a couple of foxing spots; short margin tear repaired; clean and bright; very good to excellent.

Ohio was the first state admitted from the Northwest Territory. Fifty-nine counties are listed in the population table as opposed to 88 counties today. The state has more than doubled in the decade up to 1820. The text makes reference to emigrants from the east and Europe, and also to the recent extinction of Indian titles in the northwest - said to have a "beneficial effect on the progress of population in that quarter."

RHODE ISLAND. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Rhode Island." Drawn by F. Lucas, Jr; engraved by J. Yeager. -- Map 11½ x 8", with text, 16 x 21½". Full color to subject by counties. Condition: trace of a centerfold glue stain; a couple of stains in original margins; otherwise clean and bright; very good. 

A map of " Little Rhody" alone, unlike maps in which it is often shown with Connecticut or Massachusetts. It dates from the period when East Providence and other towns were part of Massachusetts. Town lines are shown. Some natural features are identified. Most interesting are the many named roads radiating from Providence and others that are recognizable today is Routes 1 and 3, as well as "10 Rod Road". The text note the preponderance of early manufacturing in the state. 

SOUTH CAROLINA. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of South Carolina." Reduced from the state map by J. Wilson. -- Map 12½ x 14½", with text, 16 x 21". Full color to subject by "districts". Condition: light stain at centerfold, most apparent at uncolored ends; some offsetting (not uncommon for maps of the period folded into atlases); at bit of waviness in the paper; otherwise clean and bright; overall very good.

A nice bold maps of the state. Thirty political subdivisions listed as opposed to 46 counties today. More slaves than whites appear in the population table. Major roads are shown. Rivers and the Santee Canal appear. Churches, meeting houses and posts offices indicated by letters.

VERMONT. - "Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Vermont." Drawn by F. Lucas; engraved by Young and Delleker. -- Map 12 x 9", with text, 16½ x 20½". Full color by counties; state outlined. Condition: minimal edge tears below; very faint stain in side margins; clean and bright; very good. 

Towns are outlined and named. Lamoille county has yet to be formed. Natural characteristics and features are described in the text, with significant lakes, rivers and the Green Mountains indicated. The text provides a running account of Vermont's formation out of the conflicting claims of New York and New Hampshire.