Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
(FRANKLINIA.) William Faden. The United States of North America: With the British Territories and Those of Spain, According to the Treaty of 1784. Double-page engraved map of eastern North America. 21 3/4x27 1/2 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color in full, cartouche likely later; marginal repairs, most notably to the upper edge, but not affecting image. London, 1796
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Sixth of fourteen succeeding states of Faden's important map of the Republic, with political boundaries hand-colored to represent: Red, Great Britain; Yellow, The United States; Green, Spain; Blue, French fishery off Newfoundland; and Purple, the "Aborigines" or Indian lands.

This issue is one of the few from the sequence to include the aspirational region of "Franklinia or the New State of Franklin" in the Great Smoky Mountains. "Tannessee Governmnet" to its west is introduced, as is the label of "Washington, or the Federal City", for the first time in this series. Stevens & Tree 80(f).