{"product_id":"north-carolina-in-1814-raleigh-fayetteville-new-bern","title":"North Carolina in 1814 - Raleigh, Fayetteville, New Bern","description":"\u003cp\u003eMathew Carey, the Dublin-born Philadelphia publisher who founded America's first major cartographic publishing house, issued this map of North Carolina in 1814 as part of ongoing revisions to his \"American Atlas,\" the first general atlas of the United States, originally published in 1795 and expanded through repeated editions over the following two decades. Carey's atlas relied on a rotating roster of American engravers, including William Barker, Amos Doolittle, and Benjamin Tanner, and by 1814 many of its state maps, including this one, were being updated and re-engraved by John Bower rather than redrawn from scratch. This printing is distinguished from Carey's earlier 1796-1810 issue by a slightly smaller format and by the addition of an inset of western North Carolina in the lower left, with the title relocated to the lower right, changes that mark it as a genuinely new state rather than a simple reprint. Published as the War of 1812 disrupted American trade, the map appeared while North Carolina's economy, still tied heavily to naval stores and tobacco, was adjusting to wartime blockades of its Atlantic ports.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inset devoted to the state's western reaches gives Carey's readers their first compact look at the Appalachian counties, an area still only loosely surveyed in the 1810s. Raleigh anchors the interior as the still-young state capital, purpose-built after 1792 to sit at a neutral inland site; Fayetteville, on the Cape Fear River, functioned as an inland trading and shipping point for goods moving toward Wilmington; and New Bern, the colonial-era capital and one of North Carolina's oldest incorporated towns, remained an important eastern port even after the government moved to Raleigh. Bower's engraving keeps the county grid dense but legible, distinguishing this 1814 issue from earlier Carey maps that crowded the same detail onto a larger sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fitting gift for a North Carolina family with ties running from the Cape Fear coast to the Blue Ridge foothills, or for a collector tracking how Carey's American Atlas evolved edition to edition. It sits a decade later than the store's Arrowsmith map of North Carolina from 1804, and where that earlier English-engraved sheet carries no western inset, this Carey edition adds one, along with John Bower's more compact re-engraving. It's available unframed across a full range of sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325032267,"sku":"SKU1961-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325065035,"sku":"SKU1961-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325097803,"sku":"SKU1961-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325130571,"sku":"SKU1961-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325163339,"sku":"SKU1961-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325196107,"sku":"SKU1961-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325228875,"sku":"SKU1961-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325261643,"sku":"SKU1961-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58532325294411,"sku":"SKU1961-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1961.jpg?v=1789841827","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/north-carolina-in-1814-raleigh-fayetteville-new-bern","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}