LONG ISLAND Johann Carl Muller Der Teufels Belt Gemeinigli

Dec 07 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2655 -

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Sale 2655 - Lot 84

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(LONG ISLAND.) Johann Carl Muller. Der Teufels Belt Gemeiniglich Genannt der Lange Insels Sund. Engraved map of Long Island, New York City, and parts of the Hudson River and Connecticut coast. 8 1/2x17 3/4 inches sheet size, ample margins; (original?) hand-color in outline; moderate age toning and foxing. Leipzig, 1776

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Attractive 18th-century map of Long Island associated with the second part of Muller's extremely rare German account of the American Revolution, "Geographische Belustigungen zur Erlauterung der Neuesten Weltgeschichte". Part 2 of that work is recorded in less than five institutional examples and has no copies traced in auction records (only twice has the first part, containing a map of Boston, appeared at auction in the last 100 years).

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