Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SPEER, JOSEPH SMITH. (Caribbean.) To His Royal Highness George August Frederick, Prince of Wales &c. &c. &c. This Chart of the West Indies, Is humbly Inscribed by His Royal Highness's Faithful & Obedient Servant Joseph Smith Speer. Large-scale engraved map of the Caribbean on two sheets of heavy laid paper joined. 29 1/2x47 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color; minor strengthening of folds on verso. London, 1774

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A lovely example of this scarce separately published map of the hotly contested eighteenth-century West Indies.