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Finely colored example of Fielding Lucas' early map of Georgia, one of the rarest and most sought after early atlas maps of Georgia.

Most of the western and southern counties still do not appear and the region is dominated by Cherokee land and Lower Creeks land and by Early, Irwin and Applin counties. The southern counties include a note that the Indian claims were extinguished by the Treaty of Fort Jackson.

Includes towns, counties, roads, rivers, mountains, forts and many other early details.

Striking example of Fielding Lucas' fine work, which distinguished him as the best publisher of the era. His maps are printed on a higher quality paper than contemporary maps by Carey & Lea and demonstrate a superior engraving quality and more attractive coloring style. Lucas' maps are highly desireable and increasingly scarce.

A nice example of this highly desireable map, issued by one of the most important early American publishers, which are now virtually unobtainable in atlas form and rarely appear on the market in individual maps.

Fielding Lucas Jr. Biography

Fielding Lucas, Jr. (1781-1854) was a prominent American cartographer, engraver, artist, and public figure during the first half of the 19th century.

Lucas was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia and moved to Philadelphia as a teenager, before settling in Baltimore. There he launched a successful cartographic career. Lucas's first atlas was announced in early- to mid-1812, with production taking place between September 1812 and December of 1813, by which point the engravings were complete. Bound copies of the atlas -- A new and elegant general atlas: Containing maps of each of the United States -- were available early in the next year, beating Carey to market by about two months. Lucas later published A General Atlas Containing Distinct Maps Of all the known Countries in the World in the early 1820s.