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Auction 120, Lot 174

"A Correct Map of the United States of North America, Including the British and Spanish Territories, carefully laid down agreeable to the Treaty of 1784", Bowen, Thomas

Subject: Eastern United States

Period: 1784 (dated)

Publication: Banke's New System of Universal Geography, Published by Royal Authority

Color: Black & White

Size:
17 x 12.5 inches
43.2 x 31.8 cm
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An early map of the United States created at the conclusion of the American Revolution, after the Treaty of Paris. The western boundary is along the Mississippi River. The western region is full of information up to Lake Winnipeg, with Indian names and interesting notations such as Extensive Meadows Full of Buffalos, north of the Missouri River, and Country Full of Mines, just north of Arkansas.

References: McCorkle #787.1; Sellers & Van Ee #756.

Condition: B

A nice impression on sheet with some foxing. The sheet is creased with an old paper repair on the verso, the margins are trimmed but still sufficient for framing.

Estimate: $250 - $300

Sold for: $375

Closed on 7/18/2007

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