Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(NEW YORK.) Burr, David H. Map of the State of New York with Parts of the Adjacent Country. Engraved wall map of New York State with large inset map of Manhattan on six sheets joined. 46x55 1/2 inches sight size; original hand-color; varnished, backed on linen and mounted to mason board, some surface chipping and small edge tears, two large closed tears in area of title cartouche, would restore; framed. New York, J.H. Colton, 1845

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Scarce wall map first published by Colton in 1834, nicely balanced by the inset plans of 13 towns, a title vignette of the Erie Canal at Little Falls, and a reduced, but prominent, version of Burr's Map of the City and County of New York with the Adjacent Country.