AMER WINTER 2018
The live portion of this session begins on Thursday, February 8, 2018.
THREE FRAMED MAPS: A CHOROGRAPHICAL MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK IN NORTH AMERICA BY WILLIAM FADEN, LONDON, 1779.William Faden, London, 1779. Copper-engraving, on six sheets joined as three, period hand coloring. The last and best large-scale map of an American colony. Drawn on a scale of five miles to the inch, it is the most detailed printed map of any extensive part of North America published during the Revolutionary period. Claude Joseph Sauthier was one of the most accomplished engineers working in America in the eighteenth century. Alsatian by birth, he accompanied Governor William Tryon to North Carolina in 1769. He surveyed several North Carolina towns and designed the Governor's Mansion at New Bern before accompanying Tryon to New York in 1771. He subsequently conducted many surveys of New York, and during the Revolution he served as a military engineer producing a number of fine maps for the British Army. Identically housed in fine wood frames with white mats behind plexiglass. SIZE: Each sight 24" h x 54" w. Overall 32" h x 62" w. PROVENANCE: From a coastal Maine collection CONDITION: Folds, evidence of transfer shadowing from opposite section when folded, highlighted colors still present, not examined out of frame, but appear to not be laid down. 52553-10 WAG (6,000-9,000)
MAP 1779 NEW HAMPSHIRE (LONDON)
MAP 1779 CANADA (LONDON)