Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(TIME MAP.) Eddy, Isaac; and Wilson, James. Chronology Delineated To Illustrate The History of Monarchical Revolution. Stipple- and line-engraved time chart depicting world monarchies as branches of a tree emanating from creation through history. Two sheets, unjoined and untrimmed except on one edge. 495x610 mm (top) and 510x600 mm (bottom), wide margins except on edge where trimmed for joining; a few minor faults in paper and inconsequential edge tears repaired on verso, lightly toned. A nice example. Vermont: Isaac Eddy, 1813

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This is one of James Wilson's earliest works, published just after he established himself as America's first globe maker in 1813. Wilson studied with Amos Doolittle, and the attractive and uniquely American manner of engraving he learned there is evident in this work. Not in Rumsey or Americana Exchange.