[Rarebooks] fs: Martenet's Map of Maryland and DC, 1885

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9705 )  [Martenet, Simon J.]. MARTENET'S MAP OF MARYLAND AND DISTRICT 
OF COLUMBIA, INCLUDING A SKETCH OF DELAWARE AND PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
VIRGINIA, AND WEST VIRGINIA.
Baltimore: Simon J. Martenet, C. E., 1885. Original cloth, Folio, 32 panels, 
colored maps. Very Good.
      A lovely copy of Martenet's large 1885 folding map of Maryland, bound 
in its original cloth covers. The map is comprised of 32 panels mounted on a 
linen backing as issued. When unfolded the map measures 72 by 46 inches and 
shows excellent detail, including roads, locations of churches and schools, 
railroads, water depths in the Chesapeake Bay, municipal boundaries, etc. 
The various districts are tinted, geographic features hachured, and the 
scale is 3 1/2 miles to the inch. Insets show detail of Baltimore and 
Washington, DC, as well as the towns of Annapolis, Hagerstown, Cumberland, 
Frederick, Easton, Chestertown, Cambridge and Salisbury. Martenet 
successfully lobbied the Maryland Legislature to make his the standard 
school map of Maryland, and it remained so well into the 20th century. Bound 
in a folder of original dark brown cloth over boards with title in gilt on 
upper board, blind-stamped ornamental borders on both boards. Paper backing 
in the spine of the folder is mostly chipped away and the linen map backing 
is frayed or perforated at a few folds. The exterior binding shows shallow 
bumps and some fraying to cloth at extremities....... $1500.00
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