Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 453

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MAP OF THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN BEERS, ANDREW. The United-States Almanack . . . 1783 Full-page wood-cut map on the half-title titled "A Plan of the Investment of York-town and Glocester." 12 leaves. 8vo, stitched self-wrappers; browning. Hartford: Nathaniel Patten, [1782]

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The second American plan of the fall of Yorktown (preceded by the Bauman Map), with a description on verso identifying various positions. This almanac is also of note as the first one compiled by Beers. Evans 17467 (variant, with a different publisher); Bristol B5610; Drake 357; Wheat & Brun 542; Nebenzahl 191; Phelps 166.