No. 14 Map of the Chief Part of the Western States including Western Virginia
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1852. 16 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches. The is a pre-civil War map of those states that were considered the Western States. It pre-dates the Kansas-Nrbraska Act but was after the Compromise of 1850 meaning in fact the pictured states had become the mid-western states. The map shows the the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad which opened to joliet in late 1852. The railroads extension to Rock island would lead one to believe that this is the later 1854 edition of the map. Overall for Ohio to and including Missouri the. map is a capable rendering of the Midwest. Very good condition. Item #767
Price: $70.00