May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
"THE FIRST PRINTED PLAN OF WASHINGTON" -- BAYNTON-WILLIAMS (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Ellicott, Andrew; and Thackara & Vallance. Plan of the City of Washington. Engraved folding map. 270x310 mm, margins ample or just at platemark; binding edge at right side, lacking upper right margin as-issued but with it reinstated professionally, one expertly closed tear from point of binding, offsetting and mat stain cleaned. [Philadelphia: Thackara & Vallance, March 1792]
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This map was published in The Universal Asylum and Columbia Magazine (Philadelphia, March 1792), by James Thackara and John Vallance. Interestingly, these two men had been engaged by Andrew Ellicot to produce a large scale map of the city, however they took months to complete that task, while issuing this smaller version in the meantime. Thus this map takes precedence as the first printed plan of Washington, D.C. Baynton-Williams 1; Goff, A la Cart, page 148; Miller pages 44-45; Tooley, Federal City, 1.