Jun 23, 2022 - Sale 2610

Sale 2610 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(NEW ORLEANS.) Benjamin Moore Norman. Norman's Plan of New Orleans & Environs. Finely detailed hand-colored engraved pocket map of New Orleans with an 86-point keyed reference panel. 17 3/4x24 1/2 inches overall, folding into publisher's 12mo format gilt-and-blind-stamped cloth case; light age toning, small area of ink graffiti to verso partly showing through recto; publisher's printed shop ticket pasted to inside cover. New Orleans: B.M. Norman, 1849

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Separately published non-guidebook variant of Norman's important map of mid-nineteenth century New Orleans, here without credit to the surveyor Henry Moellhausen at the title, and with 6 additional location sites given to the reference key.