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Auction 147, Lot 177

"Map of the States of Alabama, and Georgia", Hinton, Simpkin & Marshall

Subject: Alabama, Georgia

Period: 1831 (dated)

Publication: History of the United States

Color: Hand Color

Size:
15.8 x 10 inches
40.1 x 25.4 cm
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This is an uncommon early 19th century map of Georgia and Alabama, showing towns, roads, rivers, lakes, mountains, swamps, court houses, Indian villages, forts, etc. A large region dedicated to Cherokee Indians and several largely unsettled counties appear in eastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. The inset plan of Savannah shows the city in street and block layout. Engraved and printed by Fenner Sears & Co.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding, now pressed with light offsetting and a professionally (and almost invisibly) repaired tear that enters 3" into map at bottom.

Estimate: $240 - $300

Sold for: $180

Closed on 11/20/2013

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