Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(NEW YORK.) Eddy, John H. The State of New York With Part of the Adjacent States. Hand-colored engraved case map in 32 sections, backed on original linen with green silk selvage folding into marbled paper end wrappers. 38 1/2x44 inches; fine original hand-coloring; selvage a little frayed in some areas. Quite well preserved in publisher's 8vo format half roan case, rebacked with original spine laid on. New York, 1818

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Large and important nineteenth-century map of New York state "remarkable for its clarity of execution and detail" (Rumsey.) Engraved by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. Philadelphia. Printed by Saml. Maverick N. York. New York. Published by James Eastburn & Co. at the Literary Rooms in Broadway. The map was published posthumously after Eddy's death at the age of 35 in 1817. Rumsey 2622; Ristow, page 103; Streeter Sale 902.