May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 138
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(MANUSCRIPT MAPS.) Southerland, D. L. Southerland's Mapping Book, Adapted to the Maps in "Mitchell's New Intermediate Geography," with Full Directions for Drawing and Coloring the Maps. 14 lithographed blank map sheets, 5 of which [Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, US, North America, and South America] completed in ink and watercolor by Frank McQueen. 4to, 310x250 mm, 1/4 black cloth over publisher's pictorial boards, worn; internally bright and clean. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., [manuscript dated 1876]
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The maps and book bear the signature of Frank McQueen, a talented, but not particularly assiduous, child-cartographer. Workbooks such as this developed as a formalized successor to the school girl manuscript maps of the first half of the 19th century.