Mar 30, 2006 - Sale 2074

Sale 2074 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 3,910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
EVANS, LEWIS; and JEFFERYS, THOMAS. A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America. Double-page engraved map, 510x680 mm, wide margins; hand-colored in outline; some scattered browning and offsetting, portion of upper margin lacking but not near the image, red stain in upper margin with slight bleeding onto the cartouche, few neatly closed tears (one extending 40-mm into the image but not visible); linen-backed. London, 1758

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First state (of 2) of the 1758 edition, but the first edition printed by Jefferys. The map originally appeared under the imprint of Thomas Kitchin in 1756. McCorkle 758.3.