Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
A NOTED RARITY AND CORNERSTONE MAP FOR THE NEWPORT COLLECTOR (NEWPORT.) Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet. A Plan of the Town of Newport in the Province of Rhode Island. Large hand-colored engraved map of Newport, with extensive explanatory key below, 765x550 mm, margins ample but close on left side; on laid paper watermarked: "JBates"; countermarked: "JB"; a small portion of top margin dampstained, few clean, short marginal tears repaired on verso. An attractive example. second state. [London:] J. F. W. DesBarres, April 24th 1776

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This is one of the scarcer charts from J. F. W. Des Barres' famed Atlantic Neptune, which was the most important collection of North American maps and views published during the 18th century.