One of the Finest Maps of the Early United States

FADEN, William. [London, 1796]

United States.  FADEN, W.  [London, 1796]  The United States of North America with the British Territories and Those of Spain. According to the Treaty, of 1784. 20 ½ x 24 ¾ inches.  Full original wash and outline color; excellent condition.                                                                                                                  
A superb example of this very attractive and scarce map of the United States of the Federal period.  Washington, DC and the Tennessee Government appear for the first time in this state of the series of maps that ran from 1777 to 1843.  The map shows the Seven Ranges in Ohio, the first area in the United States subject to systematic survey as mandated by the Land Ordinance Act of 1785.  Also, throughout the Midwest are marked off the large parcels of land owned by various companies, including some by various eastern states. With a forthrightness that now can only seem sadly naïve, the mapmaker editorializes in a notation here: “The Whole of the Countries not actually settled by Europeans, should belong by right to the Aborigines,…”  The territorial limits of the new United States, as agreed upon at the Treaty of Paris, as well as those of Great Britain and Spain, are indicated by both an engraved, dashed line and with color on the map.  An engraved line also delineates the territorial waters of the United States.  A handsome pictorial cartouche depicts a trading scene and port area.

Tooley, America, no. 80 f, p. 100-01.

Price: $6,500.00