AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Transactions of the American

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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. [Volumes I-III.] xxviii, xix, 116, 72, [117]-340 pages, with 7 engraved plates; xxxii, 397, [10] pages, 5 engraved plates; xl, 370 pages, with 6 engraved plates. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, modern 1/4 brown cloth over paper boards; some foxing and toning, old ink stamps on plates but with names forcibly erased, sometimes causing thinning of the paper. Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, 1771; and Robert Aitken, 1786 and 1793

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This set, the first editions of the first three volumes of the transactions of the first learned society in America, includes three important America-interest maps:

[Fisher, W. Thomas]. A map of part of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. . . [Wheat & Brun Title] Engraved folding map showing proposed linkages between the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays. Wheat & Brun 300; Pritchard & Taliaferro, figure 181, page 235.

[Franklin, Benjamin]. A Chart of the Gulf Stream. Engraved folding chart adjoing page: "Remarks Upon the Navigation from Newfoundland to New-York, In order to avoid the Gulph Stream." De Vorsey, page 105; Wheat & Brun 721.

[Chart of the North Atlantic showing the Gulf Stream]. Engraved folding chart. De Vorsey, page 105; Wheat & Brun 724.