Catalog Archive
Auction 141, Lot 139

"Carte Generale des Etats-Unis, des Haut et Bas-Canada…", Brue, Adrien Hubert

Subject: Canada & United States

Period: 1832 (dated)

Publication: Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Politique et Historique…

Color: Hand Color

Size:
20.3 x 14.5 inches
51.6 x 36.8 cm
Download High Resolution Image
(or just click on image to launch the Zoom viewer)

An uncommon and finely engraved map covering all the eastern United States to about the 100th meridian, including a little of southern Canada. The western territories include Ter. du Nord Ouest that encompasses present-day Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and Minnesota. The rest of the west beyond Missouri and Arkansas is designated as Indian Districts. Texas is shown as a Mexican possession. Insets of the tip of Florida and Newfoundland are located in the lower right. Surrounded by a decorative keyboard-style border that indicates longitude from Paris. The handsome map includes fancy title lettering embellished with flourishes and Brue's embossed seal.

References:

Condition: B+

Crisp impression and original hand coloring on a thick sheet with very wide margins. Some light offsetting visible in the blank Atlantic and the sheet shows very light even-aged toning.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Unsold

Closed on 9/5/2012

Archived