Lot 36
North America - Arrowsmith, Aaron
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2018 at 12:00 BST
£2,500
Description
A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, Inscribed by Permission to the Honourable Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay. London, Jan. 1st 1795, Additions to 1811, Additions to June 1814. Large engraved map, 125 x 145.5cm., partly hand-coloured, mounted on linen, attached to roller at foot with "N. America" caption on wood, painted over, probably in 19th century, with a ?varnish which is now slightly worn and slightly yellowed, extreme right corner restitched (outside neatline) to roller, slight stain across top of map, small stain lower left