Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN SOUTH.) Abraham Bradley. [Sheet 3, from]: Map of the United States Exhibiting the Post-Roads, the Situations, Connexions & Distances of the Post-Offices Stage Roads, Counties, & Principal Rivers. Double-page engraved map of Louisiana and Mississippi Territory, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky and parts of North and South Carolina. Laid paper with a Strasbourg Lily/JGL watermark, 22x29 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins with untrimmed deckle edge; small separations at centerfold but overall handsomely preserved; "triplicate" ink stamp at lower margin. Washington, D.C., 1804 (but circa 1812)

Additional Details

Unused lower left section to a revised edition of Bradley's significant 4-sheet wall map of the American Postal Roads. Without the context of the entire map the present sheet stands well on its own as a large, finely detailed presentation of the early Southern United States.