Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
MONTRESOR, JOHN. A Map of the Province of New York, with Part of Pensilvania. and New England. Engraved wall map of New York to the east and west of the Hudson River Valley, including all of Long Island and parts of Connecticut and New Jersey, on four sheets laid on a single piece of linen. 1445x915 mm, ample margins; outline hand-color; very few clean splits, small area of very light foxing, linen edges a little ragged in places, remnants of selvage. London: A. Dury, 1775

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second state of four. Montresor's map was, along with Sauthier's, the most detailed map of the New York region at the time of the American Revolution. Gunthorn, pages 34-36; Phillips, Maps, page 502; Stevens and Tree, 42(b).