Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
PHELPS, HUMPHREY. Map of the United States. Engraved folding pocket map adorned with an oval portrait of George Washington. 16x19 1/2 inches sheet size; folding into original orange card case; original hand-color in outline by state; small separations at fold intersections, name of W. Mann in ink above title. New York, 1832

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Attractive and rare pocket map of the early United States, largely reminiscent of the mapping of John Melish. The Missouri Territory dominates the western portion of the map, Arkansas is still a territory, Texas is shown as part of Mexico and Wisconsin is shown as an uncommonly large "Ouisconsin Territory". Rumsey 2442.002.