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Pub Year Map Maker Pub Place Map Title Map Price (USD) Picture
1845Tanner, Thomas R. New YorkArkansas$425 Picture

A copper-plate engraving with hand-painted wash color.

Size: 26 cm x 30 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 20 miles.

Map Type: Atlas

In fine condition with no discoloration or spotting.

Thomas R. Tanner, the son of Henry S. Tanner, partnered with John Disturnell and operated a publishing house in New York in the mid 1840's. This map is likely to have been published by him, but we have not been able to confirm it. The map displays all the land sections and their labels in the state along with towns, roads, and rivers. Miller county in this version has been given over to Texas, reflecting modern day borders.

We have been able to confirm that this map is NOT foundationed on: * Henry S. Tanner's 1833 New map of Arkansas from Tanner's Universal Atlas * David Burr 1835 Arkansas or T.G. Bradford 1838 Arkansas both of whom sold plates to Tanners firm. * Henry S. Tanner's New Universal Atlas was published in 1839, before the engraved date on this particular map of Arkansas. * S.A. Mitchell eventually acquired Tanners plates, but his 1846 Universal Atlas maps are not produced from the plate that made this particular map of Arkansas.

This map is rare.

References: Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Volume 4 Page 247, Tanner, Thomas, Scott, Valerie, Map Collector Publications, Tring, Hertz, England, 1999

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