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Brahm, William Gerard De
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- Caroline Meridionale et Partie de la Georgie par le Chevr. Bull Gouverneur Lieutenant, le Capitaine Gascoign, Chevr. Bryan. et de Brahm Arpenteur Général de la Caroline Meridle. et un Arpenteurs de la Georgie, en 4 Feuilles. Paris: Chez le Rouge, 1777
- paper, ink, paint
Copper-engraved map (joined sheets: 30 1/2 x 42 3/4 in.; 775 x 1,086 mm; image: 51 3/8 x 41 in.; 1,304 x 1,041 mm), four sheets joined to form two folding sheets, period hand-coloring in outline, large inset strip map of the Hudson River at the lower right, titled "Cours de la Riviere d'Hudson et la Comunication avec le Canada Par le Lac Champlain Jusqu'au Fort Chambly par Sauthier".
Some faint spotting, closed tear to lower margin without and loss of text, old folds, small hole in title text (loss of "e").
Some faint spotting, closed tear to lower margin without and loss of text, old folds, small hole in title text (loss of "e").
Literature
Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps 310 (1757 edition, mentions Le Rouge edition); Degrees of Latitude 37 (1757 edition); Phillips, A List of Maps of America p.820
Catalogue Note
The rare "Le Rouge" edition of De Brahm's A Map of South Carolina and Part of Georgia, with the addition of Le Rouge's version of Claude Sauthier's map of the course of the Hudson River. THE MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL SOURCE MAP OF THE AREA FOR THE REST OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.