Jun 15, 2006 - Sale 2083

Sale 2083 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 109,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
JEFFERYS, THOMAS. The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America. 25 engraved maps on 30 joined mapsheets, hand-colored in outline. Folio, contemporary 1/2 calf, front cover detached, quite worn; interior generally clean, first sheet of the Mouzon map repaired along the fore-edge and the second sheet trimmed to or just within the neatline on the right edge, Newfoundland map trimmed within the neatline along the bottom, a few extraneous creases and minor foxing and offsetting. Overall, a nice copy. Phillips 1165 and 1166. London: Sayer and Bennett, 1776

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the most important atlas of the americas issued on the eve of the revolution.