[Rarebooks] FS: The "Nycord" Atlas, 1909

[Michael John Thompson]

Just catalogued:

THE "NYCORD" ATLAS OF THE WORLD. Containing New 
Maps of Each State and Territory in the United 
States and Every Country in the World.


Place Published: New York
Publisher: The New York Cordage Co.
Date Published: 1909.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Book Id: 308876

Description:

Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in black on 
upper cover. 106 pp. Mild discolouration to front 
panel, a clean, near fine copy.

Comments:

¶ With 69 full-colour maps (including one 
double-page map of the USA), 2 pages of Flags in 
colour, plus 31 pages of Appendixes at rear - 
Principal Cities of the World; United States 
Reclamation Service (with b/w map); Presidents of 
the United States (with b/w portraits); The 
Panama Canal (with full page b/w map); Principal 
Cities of the United States from the 1905 Census 
and Latest Official Estimates of Population.

Each state is given a full-page colour map, 
including Alaska (which was not even incorporated 
as an organized US Territory until 1912). 
Notably, there is no map of the Hawaiian Islands 
(aside from a tiny depiction at the bottom of an 
early map of US Acquisition of Territory which 
shows Alaska, Porto Rico, Samoa, Wake, Hawaiian Islands, & the Philippines).

The maps of Canada depict the Maritimes 
(including the separate Commonwealth country of 
Newfoundland), Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, & 
Alberta & Saskatchewan - but no British Columbia 
or Northern Territories. There are maps of the 
West Indies, the Canal Zone and Cuba. For the 
rest of the world we have South America, Africa, 
Europe, The British isles, Asia, The Philippine 
Islands (they get their own map at near the end!) 
and a full-page map of Australia.

A very US-Centric Atlas, reminiscent of a school 
textbook type Atlas common to the time, but done 
up as a promotional item - The front cover 
clearly states "Compliments of the New York 
Cordage Co. 83-85 Wall Street". Rare - there is 
no copy listed in Worldcat or in any 
institutional library in the USA or the rest of 
the world; there are no copies listed for sale 
anywhere, there are no auction records and there 
is nothing in Google on either this atlas or even 
the NY Cordage Company at all. The Atlas is quite 
lovely, the maps are fresh and vibrant, the paper 
is good and it's a very pleasing American period atlas.

$250.00 Cdn, trade discount allowed.


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