North Eastern Seaboard--Clark, Matthew.

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Description

Chart of the Coast of America from New York to Rhode Island From the latest surveys. Boston, 1789 [1790], 427 x 622mm., large folding engraved chart extending from New York Harbour to Narragansett Bay, detailed inset of Hell's Gate, [Wheat & Brun, 96], side borders trimmed to the outer engraved border, some restoration to old folds affecting the inset, backed with archival tissue
paper

Catalogue Note

Rare chart of New York and southern New England coast.

This map is from the very first atlas of any kind published in the United States, Matthew Clark's A Complete Set of Charts of the coast of America from Cape Breton to the entrance of the Gulph of Mexico, published in 1790. The atlas is recorded in eight institutional locations.