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Lot 191
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$5,000 -
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$6,875
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[MAPS & ATLASES]. BEAURAIN, Jean de (1696-1772). Carte De L'Amerique Septle. Pour servir a l'intelligence de la Guerre entre les Anglois et les Insurgents. Paris, 1777.
Engraved map with partial hand-coloring in wash and outline of the United States, sheet 24 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (627 x 435 mm). Baroque title cartouche, large inset map "Carte de la Nouvelle York d'une partie de la Nouvelle Angleterre et de la Pensilvany." (Mild dampstaining, some old adhesive verso, a few short tears just crossing image).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with inset map titled as above, OF THIS RARE SEPARATELY-PUBLISHED MAP OF THE 13 AMERICAN COLONIES, published in France as the nation prepared to enter the Revolutionary War.
Property from the Collection of David C. Stuebe, Barrington Hills, Illinois