NICHOLAS SCULL. MAP OF THE IMPROVED PART OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. PHILADELPHIA: 1759

估價

70,000 - 100,000 USD

招標截止

描述

Map of the improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Engraved by Jas. Turner and Printed by John Davis for the Author; Published & Sold by the Author, Nicholas Scull, 1 January 1759.

Large copperplate engraved map on joined sheets (153 x 78 cm). with elaborate cartouche dedication to the Penn brothers. One faint spot, a superior example. Matted and framed.

出版

Evans 8489; Streeter sale 2:965; Wheat & Brun 422

拍品資料及來源

This is the first large scale map of Pennsylvania and one of the most important eighteenth-century maps engraved in what is now the United States (Streeter). The mapmaker, Nicholas Scull (1700-1762), was Surveyor General from 1748-1761, successor to General Benjamin Eastburn, and was the first member of a North American family to engage in mapmaking as a business. A very attractive copy, in the first state, before the additions of text at Nelson’s Ferry and a road from Carlisle east to Pine Fort. Scarce.