May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 1

Unsold
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--BOSTON.) BEAURAIN, JEAN CHEVALIER de (after). Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston. Hand-colored engraved folding map of Boston during the American Revolution. in: Geographische Belustigungen zur Erläuterung der neuesten Weltgeschichte. Mit Landkarten, Planen und Kupfern nach den neuesten und besten Originalen. (Zum Besten einer Freyschule in Sachsen). Erstes Stück. Allgemeine Beschreibung der engländischen Colonien in Nord-Amerika, nebst eien Plane von Boston. Title, 2, 28 pages. Part I, only (of 2). 4to, 10x8 3/4 inches, original grey paper wrappers, uncut, some soiling and small tears to covers, backstrip defective. Leipzig: In der Johann Carl Müllerischen Buch-und Kunsthandlung, 1776

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A fine unsophisticated copy of this very rare part work including one of the most important Revolutionary War maps of Boston, that Krieger & Cobb cite as "the only German map of Boston [made] during the Revolutionary period." The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal no.30, (1973), pp.252-253; Cresswell The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 706; Krieger & Cobb Mapping Boston p.181, pl.27; Pedley The Map Trade in the Eighteenth-Century pp.27-30, figs. 4 & 5; Nebenzahl 18; Sellers & Van Ee Maps and Charts of North America & the West Indies 924.