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Rare late edition of this highly detailed map of Michigan, published by Silas Farmer & Co., heir to John Farmer, the most important of all Michigan map makers.
The map is hand colored by counties, with showing extraordinary detail throughout, including extensive annotations. Includes a history of Michigan, population information for counties, cities and towns, railroad tables and notes on the shipping lines in the Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, including routes.
John Farmer is perhaps the single most important map maker and surveyor in the history of the mapping of Michigan. Farmer was invited by Governor Cass and the trustees of the University of Michigan to move from Albany, New York to Michigan in 1821. His first major work was the surveying and creation of the first published map of Michigan. In 1825, he issued the first of a number of printed maps of Michigan, Wisconsin, Lake Superior, and Detroit, most of which he also engraved. In 1831 he compiled and drew for the governor and judges of the state the first and only map of Detroit. Farmer's early maps were extremely influential in promoting the extensive emigration to Michigan that occurred between 1825 and 1840. John Farmer's son, Silas, was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1839 and was brought up working in his father's business, where he continued the publication of maps well into the 1880s. For a period of time, Farmer's maps were licensed to J.H. Colton.
The present example, published in 1873, appears to be the last edition of Farmer's map to bear this title, and was replaced thereafter by Map of the state of Michigan and the surrounding country : exhibiting the sections and the latest surveys, which first published in 1871 and continued until at least 1884 ..
These late editions are quite rare, with OCLC locating only 1 copy of the 1871 (American Antiquarian Society), 1 copy of the 1872 (Library of Michigan) and 1 copy of the 1873 (University of Michigan).
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