Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 9,100
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(VIRGINIA.) Bucholtz, L[udwig von]; Ritchie & Dunnavant; publishers. Map of the State of Virginia Containing the Counties, Principal Towns, Railroads[,] Rivers, Canals & All Other Internal Improvements. Hand-colored lithographed pocket map of antebellum Virginia. 675x965 mm, margin close on left side barely affecting border; mounted in original gilt-lettered black cloth folder, spine repaired with tape; original hand-color in outline; light browning to a few folds, few intersections and tears repaired with tape on verso. Richmond, VA: Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1858

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The first and only true edition of the von Bucholtz map of Virginia. Phillips, Maps, 988; Rumsey 4905; see William Wooldridge in The Portolan, Spring 2007.