A. A Map, Exhibiting the Relative Positions, of Lake Erie & Michigan According to Recent Surveys [on sheet with] A Map Exhibiting the Relative Position of Lake Erie & Michigan, According to Mitchell's Map, Published in the Year 1755, by David H. Burr, from American State Papers, circa 1834, black & white (13.8 x 6.5"). This sheet includes side-by-side maps to demonstrate the differences in how Michigan and the surrounding Great Lakes were depicted in John Mitchell's map of 1755 and contemporary maps in the 1830s. Engraved by J.V.N. Throop. Condition: A nice impression, issued folding with faint foxing along the left-hand fold and in the top blank margin. (B+)

B. Michigan and the Great Lakes, by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, from Comprehensive Atlas, circa 1835, hand color (10.1 x 7.8"). This is an interesting map of the Great Lakes regions during a period of rapidly changing boundaries in the old Northwest Territory. Present-day Wisconsin is shown as the District of Huron, attached to Michigan, a short-lived political division. Prior to 1828, Wisconsin was administered by Illinois and in 1836 became a separate territory. Outside of some early development in the southeast part of Michigan there is very little settlement shown. One of the more interesting notations is the "New York Mississippi Land Co.'s Tract, commonly called Carvers Tract." This region in the Dakotas was purportedly granted to Jonathan Carver by the Sioux Indians. It is shown on only a few maps of this period. Condition: Contemporary outline color with scattered foxing and a tiny tear in the bottom blank margin. (B)

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