Jun 03, 2021 - Sale 2571

Sale 2571 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,500
PHELPS, HUMPHREY. Phelps' Map of the United States, from the Best Authorities. Engraved wall map printed on 3 sheets joined, with three large engraved vignettes added below. 46x57 inches overall; original hand-color in full; backed on original linen with ebonized wooden rollers; ably restored with scattered areas of small loss sympathetically filled (mostly at blank areas, minimally affecting printing). New York, 1834

Additional Details

A custom prepared wall composition - unrecorded variant of Phelps's 1833 map of the United States, but here including a rare third sheet illustrating the sprawling territories west of the Rocky Mountains; made altogether more unique with the joining of two scarce Revolutionary War engravings by John Baker and a portrait of George Washington engraved by Illman & Pilbrow below the map.