MAP FROM ‘THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’
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Plate V from the atlas volume of ‘The Life of George Washington’, dated 1807, an engraved map, 17 x 11 in., boldly titled ‘A Map of the COUNTRY from RARITON RIVER in EAST JERSEY to ELK HEAD in MARYLAND Shewing the several Operations of the of the American and British Armies in 1776 & 1777’. The text around the border reads: ‘Plate V’, ‘Engraved for Washington’s Life’, ‘Drawn by S. Lewis from Surveys made by Orders of G. Washington’, ‘Published by C.P. Wayne Philadelphia’, and ‘Engraved by J.H. Seymour’. The publication ‘The Life of George Washington’ was written by Chief Justice John Marshall and it is rare to find the atlas volume intact and complete. Nicely presented in a 23.5 x 17 in. wooden frame. A few marginal tears and a bit soiled, still quite good.
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MAP FROM ‘THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’
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