Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(PENNSYLVANIA / MARYLAND / DELAWARE.) James Smither, engraver; for The American Philosophical Society. [A Map of part of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland]. Engraved folding map encompassing the area between Baltimore, Philadelphia, Reading and York, PA with proposed connections of several roads and canals. 14x17 inches sheet size, deckle edge at right; faint offsetting, original folds pressed flat, left edge nicely reinstated where originally trimmed and bound. Philadelphia, 1771
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Published as an accompaniment to "An abstract of sundry papers and proposals for improving the inland navigation between Pennsylvania and Maryland" which appeared in Volume I of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. The unusual apparatus shown at left is a device used for cutting files and is designated Fig 2, i.e., to illustrate another article in the same publication. Wheat & Brun 300, third state with Turkey Pt. and Pursusey Isl. added to the upper Chesapeake Bay.