Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CAREY, HENRY CHARLES; and LEA, ISAAC. A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas. 46 double-page hand-colored engraved mapsheets, and numerous tables and charts [complete]. Folio, 445x310 mm, rebound in later 19th century leather but with uniquely-patterned 18th century mottled calf covers onlaid, an unusual and interesting presentation, rubbed around the edges; title toned, very minor edge chipping, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina dampstained. Phillips, Atlases, 1373a. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1822

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with--Anonymous. Hand colored engraved plan of Boston, 365x255 mm, laid on brown paper and tipped-in. A scarce plan of Boston from the early 19th century.