Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WITH THE LEWIS MAP. JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Notes on the State of Virginia. Large engraved folding map by Samuel Lewis, folding table, and [4], 336 pages. 8vo, modern 1/2 morocco antique over marbled boards; institutional ink stamp on verso of title and final page of text. Ex libris of Belvoir House on front pastedown. Nice example. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1794

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"This map, drawn by Samuel Lewis in 1794, is of particular interest as the first map of Virginia to be made, engraved, and printed in America." -- Coolie Verner, A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.