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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Carey & Lea.
Geographical, Statistical, and
Historical Map of the District of Columbia.
Double-page engraved map, with text
on sides, 310x305 mm plate size; hand-colored and in outline; minor soiling along bottom
edge away from text. Philadelphia, 1822
[250/350]
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(WASHINGTON, D. C.) McClelland, D.
Map of the City of Washington.
Engraved map, 355x465 mm, wide margins; several closed tears, one just reaching into
image but not unsightly. Washington, 1855
[200/300]
The map seems to have been published annually in the 1850s in pocket map format.That
format would have required a bank note stock for printing.This example has never been folded,
is on quite a thick stock, and clearly not intended for a pocket map format.
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(WASHINGTON, D. C.) Russell / Ellicott.
Plan of the City of Washington . . .
established as the Seat of their government after the Year 1800.
Engraved folding
map, 415x540 mm, ample margins; few separations at folds neatly closed on verso, one
extremely small hole at an intersecting fold. London, 1795
[800/1,200]
The Russell map is re-engraved after the Ellicott map of 1792, and appeared inWinterbotham’s
An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and PhilosophicalView of the American United States.
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