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Pub Year	Map Maker	Pub Place	Map Title	Map Price (USD)	Picture
1826	Finley, Anthony	Philadelphia	United States of North America	$1,400	Picture

An engraved map with hand colored wash.

Size: 16 inches X 19.5 inches

Map Type: Pocket

This is a fair copy, with strong colors. Japon backing with loss of image along some crease lines.

Engraved by the famous J. H. Young. The information west of the Mississippi attributed to Major S.H. Long. This map first appeared in 1826 as a page in a traveling size of Finley's A New American Atlas. In 1831 Finley sold his map and atlas copyrights to S. A. Mitchell. A very scarce map in the pocket map form.

This 1820s was a period of significant development in the eastern United States, with great growth of population, expansion of the transportation nexus, and political changes. Finley was very concerned to depict as much up-to-date detail as was possible and his maps reflect the eastern development.

References: A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress, 1378 (folio format), Phillips, P.L, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1909; American Maps and Mapmakers, p270-271, Ristow, George, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1985; Rumsey 0278.002