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Antique Maps of the United States. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of the United States from the colonial era to the 19th century.

Antique Maps of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Maine, Vermont & New Hampshire from the 17th to the 19th century.

Antique Maps of North Carolina & South Carolina. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of North Carolina and South Carolina from the 16th to the 19th century.

Antique Maps of the United States. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of the United States from the colonial era to the 19th century.

Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books at Swann Galleries June 3 NEW YORK, New York Subject Line Please provide verification code Swann Galleries’ Thursday, June 3 sale of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books will feature world cartography with an emphasis on American maps, works from prolific printmakers and ornithologists.             World maps on offer include offerings of a fine early seventeenth-century Italian celestial ...

  1823 (dated)         1 : 1100000 Description A rare and important 1823 first edition Henry Schenck Tanner map of North Carolina and South Carolina. Also included are adjacent parts of Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. When this map was illustrated, it represented the finest atlas map of these states then obtainable. It includes a wealth of important firsts, such as the addition of Haywood county (founded in 1808). In addition, it features an impressive richness of detail, naming m...

The particulars of the Adams-Onís Treaty, it turns out, were greatly aided by a map that was produced by one John Melish, a traveler, merchant, author, and cartographer of Scottish origin who ended up being the first mapmaker to create a coast-to-coast charting of the United States. But Melish also is known in the annals of history for a cartographical blunder that both misplaced the 100 th meridian by a hundred or so miles to the east and failed to recognize the seemingly obvious fact that th...

MARYSVILLE — Fighting 20 mph winds that made staying steady a monumental chore, the 93-year-old World War II soldier and the 74-year-old sailor who served in Vietnam walked together to the lowered flags that honored comrades who had paid the price of war with their freedom. Then Army veteran Joe Melish and Navy veteran Joel Denman together helped to raise the American flag and the POW/MIA flag to the top of the pole in front of Walnut Crossing Assisted Living Community. The pair then turned...

By HOLLY ZACHARIAH | The Columbus Dispatch | Published: April 9, 2021 MARYSVILLE, Ohio (Tribune News Service) — Fighting 20 mph winds that made staying steady a monumental chore, the 93-year-old World War II soldier and the 74-year-old sailor who served in Vietnam walked together to the lowered flags that honored comrades who had paid the price of war with their freedom. Then Army veteran Joe Melish and Navy veteran Joel Denman together helped to raise the American flag and the POW/MIA flag...