HERRMAN AUGUSTINE Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and

Sale 2481 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 750

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

HERRMAN, AUGUSTINE. Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited This Present Year 1670 Surveyed and Exactly Drawne by the Only Labour & Endeavour of Augustine Herrman. Large silver print photograph in four sections, backed on period linen. 32 1/2x37 3/4 inches; minor insect damage to a few areas of the margin, light discoloration from mounting adhesive. [Providence, R.I. ? circa 1920]

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A remarkable early 20th-century full-size silver print photograph of Herrman's monumentally important and impossibly rare 1673 map of the Chesapeake Bay. Several characteristics reveal the image was captured from an original example at the John Carter Brown Library.