Jonathan Price and John Strother, To David Stone and Peter Brown Esqrs The First Actual Survey of the State of North Carolina..., Philadelphia, 1807-1808, in three sheets: Western sheet second state, Piedmont sheet first state, Eastern sheet first state, inscribed "...S. Taylor... 2 (rest of inscription faded and illegible)" lower left corner verso, engraving on wove paper with hand color, 30-1/2 x 59-1/2 in.

Provenance: A Historic Edenton Family Collection

Note: ".... The map was compiled by Jonathan Price from surveys he and John Strother had undertaken as early as 1789. The entire preparation and publication was financed by subscribers. An error of one degree of latitude in the western part of the map led to distortions of natural features in this region on general maps of the United States until corrected by Henry S. Tanner in his New American Atlas of 1823." (See Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p.224)

This rare and important North Carolina map is the result of the remarkable undertaking of surveyors Jonathan Price and John Strother, who through their monumental efforts produced the most accurate to-date map of the state (excepting an error of one degree of latitude) for its time over a period of more than fifteen years. Published in three sheets, which were revised independently of one another, the map exists in various combinations of sheet states, this example being comprised of one second state sheet and two first states. This landmark example of North Carolina cartography is exceedingly rare and seldom comes to auction. There are only perhaps a dozen and a half copies of this map extant.