Engraved map, hand-colored. 129x166.5 cm (50¾x65½") plus decorative border; mounted on linen & sectioned for folding, silk ribbon border, original half leather and marbled boards folder.
Beautiful, large, brilliantly colored map of the United States, with large inset of North America, smaller insets of northern Maine and southern Florida, and ten insets of the vicinities of cities: Albany, Baltimore and Washington, Cincinnati, Charleston, New Orleans, the Falls of Niagara, Rochester, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. There is a large pictorial title cartouche (uncolored) featuring an eagle. The main map extends to just west of Missouri and Arkansas.
Provenance: F. Edwards, 6/69
References: Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, pp 309-310.