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Lot 373
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,500 -
2,500
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$1,875
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Lot Description
LOTTER, Matthias Albrecht (1741-1810). Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. Augsburg: Lotter, 1777.
Hand-colored engraved map, overall sheet 26 ¼ x 21 in. (665 x 534 mm), matted and framed. (Very minor toning along fold, otherwise fine). Provenance: acquired Kenneth Nebenzahl, Inc. (dealer’s description on frame verso).
A fine example of Lotter's edition after Nicholas Scull & George Heap's seminal Philadelphia map first published in London by Faden the same year. Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Battle Plans of the American Revolution 131; Tooley, The Mapping of America 132 & p. 214.