POST- UND REISEKARTE DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN (Postal and Travel Map of the United States), 1837

Traugott Bromme, Baltimore (?)
Light outline color, 18x21.75 inches

An early map and scarce U.S.-published item from the most prolific German travel writer on America. Though engraved on stone in Meissen, this map likely was printed in Baltimore for a travel guide to German emigrants -- there is a numbered grid overlay for reference. This copy may have been printed separately, as only two soft fold marks are faintly visible. Bromme credits Tanner, Mitchell and the General Post Office. His map is a mass of detail, with no fewer than 17 insets: areas of Niagara Falls, Albany/Saratoga, Montreal, Hudson River, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans (plan), Charleston, Baltimore/Washington with its own inset plan of Washington; Philadelphia, Richmond, New York, Providence, Boston...and Pottsville, PA. Even inns are shown. Good condition; light wrinkling, a few repaired tears to wide margins.

$985 (UC040)