Dec 08, 2015 - Sale 2401

Sale 2401 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MOUNT & PAGE. Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, East & West New Jarsey. Large engraved folding map, extracted from The English Pilot, The Fourth Book. 580x820 mm, ample margins, wide at top; an excellent example but for very few minor worm holes in top margin, expertly repaired. London: William Mount & Thos. Page, [1743-1770]

Additional Details

There are three editions of this map described by Coolie Verner; the first plate is known in 5 states, the second plate in two states. This example is the second plate in its first state. Burden 667; Morrison, On the Map, 36; Verner, A Cartobibliographic Study of the English Pilot The Fourth Book, pages 3 and 29-40.