A. [Map in Report] View of Mount Desert Island, Maine [in] The Scenery of Mt. Desert Island: Its Origin and Development, by Erwin J. Raisz, published 1929 (9.9 x 6.8"). This is Raisz’s Ph. D. dissertation published separately as an offprint from its publication in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The 66-page report features the folding “View of Mount Desert Island, Maine” demonstrating an early example of Raisz’ unique landform maps for which he is known. Raisz became a Harvard professor of cartography where he wrote the first cartography textbook in English and greatly influenced the development of cartography in the United States.

B. Maine (Hancock County) Lafayette National Park, by U.S. Geological Survey, dated 1928 (16.0 x 19.8"). A detailed map of Mount Desert Island, located just off the central coast of Maine. Locates Bar Harbor along the eastern edge of the island with Lafayette National Park to its south. Features excellent topographical and watershed detail. The map was issued 9 years after the creation of Lafayette National Park (the first national park east of the Mississippi), and only a year before it was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929. The verso includes text “The Geology of Mount Desert” by George McLane Wood.

References:

Condition: B+

Contents are mostly clean and bright with a hint of toning. Wrappers are chipped at the corners and detached from the text block.