1850s Map of the Pacific, Detailing Trade and History
"Map of Oceanica, Engraved to Illustrate Mitchell's School and Family Geography"
Lithograph map with hand-coloring, 1852,'engraved' by J. H. Young for Samuel Augustus Mitchell's atlas, with informative text as well as stylized images of a convict ship sailing to Botany Bay, a Nantucket whale ship returning from the Japan grounds, a missionary ship sailing west and a Sandwich Island merchant vessel on it's way to China, on cream wove paper; some slight toning to the sheet edge, and a very slight crease in the lower-left margin but otherwise in good condition, framed
Image (neatline) 7 1/2 x 11 inches
Sheet 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
$80
As well as the appealing graphic representation of trade and activities in the Pacific with the small ship images, the map is interesting in some of the outdated and mis-positioned island names it shows. The "Madison's Is." shown in the Line Islands, just south of the Missionary Ship, may be a mistaken positioning of Nukahiva in the Marquesas to the south-east, which had been renamed Madison's Island, in honor of the president, by Commodore David Porter during the War of 1812; a name which did not stick (but yet had remained on Mitchell's maps since 1839).
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