Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
EVANS, LEWIS. Carte Generale des Etats de Virginie, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvanie, Nouveau-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut et Isle de Rhodes... d'Apres la Carte Ameriquine de Louis Evans. Hand-colored engraved folding map of the Middle Atlantic states and the Ohio River valley. 20x26 1/2 inches sheet size, ample margins (partially trimmed at right edge for binding); minor foxing and offsetting, small closed tear at original mount. Paris, 1787

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A nice French adaptation of Lewis Evans' "Map of the Middle British Colonies". The present derivation, engraved by Pierre Francois Tardieu, was originally included in the French edition of St. John de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer". McCorkle 787.6.