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Wed, Jan 11, 2023 12:00PM EST
Lot 1161

A New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeake

Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000

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$3,000 $250
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Anthony Smith, A New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeake...with All the Shoals, Channels, Islands, Entrances, Soundings, and Sailing Marks, as Far as the Navigable Parts of the Rivers Patomack, Patapsco, and North-East..., Published by Sayer and Bennett, London, 1776, third state, in four sheets, engraving on laid paper, sheet 38-1/2 x 56 in.; framed, 45-1/2 x 62-3/4 in.

Provenance: The Old Print Shop, New York, New York;

Literature: Pritchard and Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2002, pg. 224-227

Condition

floated on mat with archival tape at all edges, trimmed to plate at lower margin, some light browning at margins; frame with light wear and abrasions

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The Old Print Shop, New York, New York;