Buel, John (sold)
John Buel (c. 1768 - 1800) was an American printer and publisher active in New York shortly after the American Revolutionary War. Buel was the publisher of various short-lived New York newspapers, including the Evening Mercury (1793) which folded after three issues. He subsequently began to issue the semi-weekly Columbian Gazetteer (1793 – 1794), which hi sold to Levi Wayland in November of 1794. He also issued numerous books and pamphlets. Buel briefly partnered with Knox under the imprint of 'Knox and Buel.' He also worked with Christopher Colles in attempt to publish the Geographical Ledger, an incomplete early American serial atlas. Buel's financial situation seems to have been dire as indicated by the fact that he moved offices frequent: in 1793 he was located 28 Wall-Street, by 1794 he had moved to 24 Little Q[ueen?] Street, and in 1795-1796 his office was at 151-153 Water Street, by 1797 he was at 74 William Street. On February 25, of 1798, he married the Brooklynite Catherine Carpenter.
Most complete extant example of Christopher Colles' 1794 unpublished and unfinished magnum opus.
The Geographical Ledger.
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The most complete extant example of Christopher Colles' 1794 unpublished and unfinished magnum opus, The Geographical Ledger, a loose-leaf indexed atlas of the United States whose sheets could be combined into a single enormous map. While not the first large-format American map, the Ledger, even unfinished, is unprecedented in its size and detail, and is the first general map to identify such items as early American forges (furnaces), mills, roads, farmsteads, property owners, roadside inns, fledgling settlements, early county configurations, etc. Although Colles is better known for his publication of the seminal 1790 Survey of the Roads, The Geographical Ledger was a work of boundless ambition that exceeded not only Colles' meager funds, but also the needs and values of the time. Nonetheless, the Ledger, even though unfinished, stands out as the masterwork of an unrecognized genius in pursuit of grandiose visions ahead of his time. (more details)