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CHRISTIANA. NEW CASTLE CO. DEL.
Beers, D.G.

- Philadelphia : Pomeroy & Beers 1868 - 15 5/8" x 14 1/2," board 16 1/4" x 15 1/4" - Single sheet - Order Nr. 93507 - Price: $ 85.00

B1-100. Map of Brandywine, New Castle Co., Delaware. Scale 1 1/2" to the mile. Contains an inset map of Centreville (40 rods to the inch) and a Centerville business directory. This map has been removed from a incomplete copy of Beers' 1868 Atlas of the State of Delaware (page 11), which contains "actual surveys by and under the direction of D.G. Beers." Daniel G. Beers came from a family of atlas publishers. He and his brother, Silas, operated in Philadelphia, the center of atlas publication in the United States, until 1868, when he moved to New York City. Beers and his family produced detailed maps of many Northeastern states, cities, and counties until the 1880s, when the United States began to systematize mapping practices, and mapmaking moved out of private publication (Mano, Jo Margaret). Engraved by Worley & Bracher of Philadelphia and printed by Fred Bourquin. Map in color. Map shrink-wrapped to cardboard. Light stain along top.

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BULLETIN IN BOLD CHARACTERS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SETON ... by Taylor, Maurice. First edition, limited to 165 numbered copies, this being one of the copies bound in quarter leather rather than cloth. With an introduction by Clark Kimball of The Great Southwest Books, Santa Fe. History of the Seton Village Press from its foundation in 1938 until it closed five years later. During that time, the owner, Ernest Thompson Seton, with the aid of his wife and Maurice and Marceil Taylor had produced twenty titles, of which fifteen were printed and set entirely by hand. Each title receives a through description and is illustrated throughout by black and white photographs and line drawings reproduced from Seton editions. Signed on colophon page by both Taylors. Prospectus loosely inserted.