Lot 4
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Lot 4 Roberty Sayer & John Bennett

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Description

  • ink and paper
The Seat of War in New England by an American volunteer, with the marches of several corps sent by the colonies towards Boston with the attack on Bunker Hill. London: printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 2 September 1775. Copper-engraved map, with original color.

Sheet size: 22 x 27 3/4 in.

Catalogue Note

A rare and dramatic Revolutionary war map of New England, showing George Washington's troops marching on British-occupied Boston, with a large inset plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill showing Charlestown in flames. Among the earliest pictorial representations of the Battle of Bunker Hill.