Lot 4

Evans, Lewis

A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America

£1,500

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST

Description

viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island: of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians ... Wherein is also shewn the Antient and Present Seats of the Indian Nations; carefully copied from the Original published at Philadelphia. London: for Carington Bowles, 1771. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, title within decorative cartouche, inset map of the Ohio River, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 50 x 65cm, trimmed slightly unevenly along neatline, old creasing along central fold, closed tears extending into frame from left-hand edge and within image to lower right of cartouche (affecting area of Lake Ontario), not examined out of frame

Footnote

Note: Lewis Evans's landmark map was first published in 1755, in Philadelphia.