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[MAP – MICHIGAN]. –– [MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1790–1868)]. –– YOUNG, James Hamilton. The Tourist’s Pocket Map of Michigan. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1836.
16mo. Engraved folding map (400 x 333 mm), hand–coloring after Young (old folds, as issued; few archival tape repairs to verso, old splits to seams, else fine). Housed within original olive straight–grain morocco covers stamped in gilt.
Third edition, originally published in 1834. ONE OF THE LAST MAPS TO BE PRINTED PRIOR TO MICHIGAN STATEHOOD IN 1837. An early map of Michigan which shows vast portions of the Lower Peninsula as Michilimackinac territory and portions of the Upper Peninsula as Chippeway territory. The map continues to show Toledo as part of Michigan, which would result in the “Toledo War” of 1835 and would not be fully resolved until the summer of 1836 when Toledo was awarded to Ohio and Michigan received the Upper Peninsula. Karpinski 124.