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Description

Nice example of Mathew Carey's map of Connecticut, engraved by Amos Doolittle, which first appeared in the 1795 edition of Carey's American Atlas.

Carey's American Atlas was the first atlas published in the United States, compiling a number of excellent maps from indigenous sources in the first compilation of American maps.

This map was engraved by Amos Doolittle in New Haven and bears his name, on a scale of 7.5 miles to one inch. The towns and township lines are based on William Blodget's seminal map of 1791, although the coastal and fluvial information derives from other sources. This second edition of the map (offered here) can be distinguished from the exceptionally rare separately issued first state by the addition of 3 trees east of the Hudson River in Greenwich County, near the disputed oblong portion of the western border with New York. An essential map for Connecticut collectors.

Amos Doolittle was a famous and prolific Connecticut engraver whose work appeared for nearly 40 years and is highly collected.

The present example includes the manuscript annotation Property of Henry William Ibbotson of Portland, Conn. 

Condition Description
Minor fold toning. Trimmed close to neatline and pasted onto wider margins.
Reference
Wheat & Brun 284; Thompson 36.