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Alvin Jewett Johnson (American, 1827-1884). "Johnson's Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island." ca. 1862 AND Samuel Augustus Mitchell (American, 1792-1868). "Connecticut" ca. 1849. A wonderful pair of antique maps of New England. First, an Alvin Jewett Johnson map of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island created after the outbreak of the Civil War and set in a custom matte. The map includes the regions from Vermont to Long Island and the Long Island Sound as well as from New York to the Atlantic Ocean. All is surrounded by a beautiful strapwork border used in Johnson's maps from 1860 to 1863. The steel plate engraved map was created for publication in the 1862 edition of his New Illustrated Atlas - the first edition of Johnson's Atlas with the Johnson and Ward imprint. Size including margins: 18" L x 26.3" W (45.7 cm x 66.8 cm)

Joining the Johnson and Ward map is an Samuel Augustus Mitchell map of Connecticut, focussing on Middlesex and Hartford, but also extending eastward from Fairfield to Windham and New London to address the entire state. On the upper left is a statistical table that lists the populations of towns, counties, and different time periods. A beautiful map that is engraved and nicely colored in Mitchell's signature style with pastel pink, yellow, and green as well as his decorative green border. This map was published in the 1849 edition of the New Universal Atlas. Interestingly, it was the final edition that Mitchell published of the atlas before he sold the rights to the atlas and his plates to Thomas Cowperthwait in 1850. Size including margins: 13.875" L x 17.3" W (35.2 cm x 43.9 cm)

Provenance: private John and Mary Williams collection, Boulder, Colorado

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"Johnson's Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island" has normal toning to paper, minute nicks to peripheries, and a few minor stains. Image, text, and coloring are still strong. Please note there is a Geographical Index on the verso. The Mitchell "Connecticut" map shows expected toning commenurate with age, minute tears/losses to peripheries that do not impact the map itself, and a few stains. The imagery, text, decorative border, and coloring are still strong.