Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania [sic], New Jersey and North Carolina, London, possibly 1755, each uncolored engraving on two sheets of laid paper, framed in four sections, each plate 15-7/8 x 24-3/4 in., each sheet 21-3/4 x 28-7/8 in.; modern 18th century style parcel gilt print frames, each 26-1/8 x 33-5/8 x 1-1/8 in.

Provenance: W. Graham Arader III, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $85,000); Estate of Richard and Shirley Roberts, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Note: These maps have been framed as separate sheets as early examples were originally issued. Corrected longitudinal figures suggest these maps are fifth state.

Note: For more information, see Henry Taliaferro, “Fry and Jefferson Revisited”, Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, (2021-2022), https://www.mesdajournal.org/2013/fry-jefferson-revisited/; Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude (2002), pp. 154-159, no. 30; William Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps (1998), pp. 332-333, no. 449.