Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
LEWIS, SAMUEL; and CAREY, MATHEW. A Map of the United States: Compiled Chiefly from the State Maps and Other Authentic Information. Large engraved map of the United States east of the Mississippi River on two sheets joined. 25x36 1/2 inches overall; archivally lined on verso stabilizing several splits along original fold lines and a large tear from the left edge, scattered foxing, two areas of small printed loss, lower left margin trimmed ie for binding. Philadelphia, [1796]
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Scarce map of the United States from Carey's "General Atlas" of 1796, the first of its kind to be engraved and published in America. Copies of that book are often found lacking the present map.