1831 Map ECLIPSE of SUN Across US United States America 177-yrs-old...Shows Path of 1831 Eclipse Across the US Start Price USD 319.00 Current Price USD 319.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, October 01, 2008 End Time Friday, October 31, 2008 Location Savannah, Georgia See more about '1831 Map ECLIPSE of SUN Across US United States America' Description A Fine Adornment of American History. Impressive on any Home or Office wall. 177-years-old. Extraordinary Map. 1831 Map of The Eclipse of the Sun February 12, 1831 In Its Passage Across The United States Incredible Map. Beautiful Detail & Fascinating Subject. Original 1831. 177-yrs-old. Map is in Very Good/ Excellent (A, A+)) Condition:  No writings, tears, or fraying. Slight foxing. Folded as Issued. Not a Reproduction.  Original Map of the 1831 Edition of the American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1831, By Gray & Bowen, Boston, 1831. An Exceptionally Rare Map for the Collector and Quite a Fascinating Subject. Heavy Parchment Paper and Intricate Detail. Engraved by Gray & Bowen, G. Boynton, S.C. I sell only Original Maps: No copies or reproductions.  Press Here to View My Entire Collection, and Thank You for Your Interest In My Maps. Map Dimensions: 8.4" x 9.25" Impressive on any Home or Office Wall. Map Reads:  "A Map of The Eclipse of Feb. 12th In Its Passage Across the United States." Published by Gray & Bowen, Boston, 1831. A Few of the Cites, States, Towns, Indian Tribes, & Other Points of Interest Shown on the Map: Athens, Georgia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Newbern, NC; St. Mary's, Georgia; St. Augustine, Florida; Columbia, South Carolina; Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians, Savannah, Ga; Charleston, SC; Milledgeville, Ga; Knoxville, Tennessee; Charlottesville, Virginia; Annapolis, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Long Island, New York; Albany, New York, Portsmouth; Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Hartford, Connecticut; Pittsburg, Pa; Lexington, Kentucky; Hunstville, Alabama; Louisiana; New Orleans, La; Jackson, Mississippi; Edisto Island; Cape Fear; Wilmington, North Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Vermont; Dover, Delaware; Richmond, Va; Nashville, Tn; Arkansas Territory; Missouri; Illinois; Michigan Territory; Indiana; Northwest Territory; Cherokee Native Americans; Osages; Tallahassee, Florida; Augusta, Georgia; Alleghany Mountains; Lake Michigan; Lake Huron; Cincinnati, Ohio; Frankfort, KY; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Chickasaw Indian Tribe; Yorktown, Virginia; Williamsburg, Va; Monticello, Mississippi; Nachitoches, Louisiana; Nantucket Island; Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod; Washington, DC; Alexandria, Va; Georgetown, Va; Petersburg, Virginia; & Many Others. Incredible Map. Fascinating Subject. 177-yrs-old. An Excerpt from the Book "1831, The Year of Eclipse," By LOUIS P. MASUR:  "Everyone knew it was coming. "THE GREAT ECLIPSE OF 1831 will be one of the most remarkable that will again be witnessed in the United States for a long course of years," alerted Ash's Pocket Almanac. One editor reported that the February 12 eclipse would even surpass historic occasions when "the darkness was such that domestic fowls retired to roost" and "it appeared as if the moon rode unsteadily in her orbit, and the earth seemed to tremble on its axis."  On the day of the eclipse, from New England through the South, Americans looked to the heavens. One diarist saw "men, women and children ... in all directions, with a piece of smoked glass, and eyes turn'd upward." The Boston Evening Gazette reported that "this part of the world has been all anxiety ... to witness the solar eclipse.... Business was suspended and thousands of persons were looking at the phenomena with intense curiosity." "Every person in the city," noted the Richmond Enquirer, "was star gazing, from bleary-eyed old age to the most bright-eyed infancy."  Unlike previous celestial events, thought some commentators, the eclipse of 1831 would not produce superstitious dread that the world would end. "Idle fears and gloomy forebodings of evil formerly raised by the appearance of phenomena caused by the regular operation of natural laws," one writer claimed, "have yielded to pleasing admiration; a change which the march of science and general diffusion of knowledge have largely contributed to effect." Another writer mocked the notion that eclipses were "signs or forerunners of great calamities." Eclipses, he thought, "necessarily result from the established laws of the planetary revolution, and take place in exact conformity with those laws.... Those who entertain the opinion that eclipses of the sun are tokens of the Divine displeasure can produce no warrant from scripture for their irrational belief. If we would look for the signs of the displeasure of God towards a nation, we can see them, not in eclipses, but in national sins and depravity of morals." Rational explanations of atmospheric events, however, offered little solace to most Americans. In many, "a kind of vague fear, of impending danger—a prophetic presentiment of some approaching catastrophe"—was awakened, and "the reasonings of astronomy, or the veritable deductions of mathematical forecast," did little to diminish the anxiety. One correspondent reported that an "old shoe-black accosted a person in front of our office, the day previous to the eclipse, and asked him if he was not afraid. For, said he, with tears in his eyes, the world is to be destroyed to-morrow; the sun and moon are to meet ... and a great earthquake was to swallow us all!—Others said the sun and the earth would come in contact, and the latter would be consumed. Others again, were seen wending their ways to their friends and relations, covered with gloom and sadness; saying that they intended to die with them!" The day after the eclipse, preachers employed Luke 21:25 as the text for their sermons: "there shall be signs in the sun." "In strict propriety of language," one minister observed, "it is not the sun that is eclipsed. Not the slightest shadow is cast upon the least portion of his broad disk. His beams are shot forth precisely the same. It is over us only that the momentary darkness is spread, and it is truly the earth that is eclipsed." (C) 2001 Louis P. Masur All rights reserved. Imaginative & Creative Birthday, Christmas, Wedding, or Other Special Occasion Gift. 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