Group of maps, primarily early maps of US and other American cities, including Colonial and Revolutionary period maps of New York City. Includes "The United States of America, according to the Treaty of Peace of 1784;" Francis Shallus, "Plan of the Investment and Attack of York in Virginia," Philadelphia, C.P. Wayne, 1807; T. Maerschalck, "A Plan of the City of New York, Reduced from an Actual Survey," New York, 1763. Printed notes along the bottom read "Copy from an original map in the possession of John F. Seaman, Esqr." and "Lith. of H.R. Robinson for D.T. Valentine's Manual."; a reproduction of Bernard Ratzen's 1767 map of New York City for D.T. Valentine's Manual, 1854, the cartouche reads "To His Excellency, Sir Henry Moore, Bart., Captain General and Governour in Chief in & over the Province of New York and the Territories, depending thereon in America, Chancellor & Vice Admiral of the same, This Plan of the City of New York is most Humply Inscribed, by His Excellency's Most Ovedient Servant, Bern[ar]d Ratzen, Lieu[tenan]t in the 60 Reg[imen]t, Survey'd in 1767." ; S. Augustus Mitchell Jr., "Plan of New York & c.," Pennsylvania, 1860; Abraham Bradley Jr., "Map of the Northern Part of the United States of America," for "Morse's American Gazetteer," Boston, 1797; maps of Brooklyn, Atlanta, Washington D.C., and Baltimore from Fisk & Co.'s "The Historical Atlas;" a double sided map of Montreal and Quebec engraved by Fisk & Co., New York, Hunt & Eaton, ca. 1893; "Map of the Campaign in East Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Floraida," from "Harper's Weekly," March 12, 1864; T. Starling, "Ipswitch," London, Messrs. Longman & co., May 1st, 1819; "Plan of the City of Boston," in an advertisement for the United States Hotel, Boston, 1842; M.F. Sweetser, "1891 New Map of Boston, with Squares and Numbers after the Baedecker Plan," Boston Map Company, 1880/1891; "Plan de la Ville de Boston et ses Environs"; and Thomas Bowen (d. 1790), "Sketch of Nootka Sound," London: Alexander Hogg, 1778.
SKU: 03548
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