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Nice example of Gray's early map of Alaska, one of the first separate maps of the U.S. territory to appear in a commercial atlas.
Highly detailed map of Alaska, with excellent detail in the Aleutians and along the coastline, but demonstrating the sparse populations and knowledge of the interior. Still notes Russian Villages and other early features. Includes Soundings in the Behring Sea.
From one of the leading American map publishers of the 1870s and '80s.
O. W. Gray was a publishing firm based in Philadelphia. Later, they published as O. W. Gray & Son. They published atlases in the late nineteenth century. Gray's National Atlas was one of the most successful commercial ventures of the 1870s and one of the last to employ hand coloring on maps.
![Charte von Nord-America Prag 1818 [Rare Alaska Inset Map]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/72184.jpg)
