Braddock's Expedition | Perhaps the Most Important Cartographical Witness to the Braddock Expedition

Braddock's Expedition

Fine contemporary manuscript map of General Edward Braddock's route towards Fort Duquesne, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in the Ohio Country

Pen and ink on a sheet of laid paper (474 x 373 mm), likely Virginia, ca. 10 July to September 1755, the scale of miles in the upper left corner is three miles to one centimeter, below the scale is an unfinished compass rose, oriented to the north; once folded in quadrants and now reinforced at those folds, as well as at two marginal tears, on verso, remnants of three red seals (one very well preserved) on verso, verso soiled; accompanied by a key to 21 encampments along the route, written in a different hand than the map, but contemporary to it, on a half-sheet of laid paper (204 x 140 mm), formerly pinned to the upper right corner of the map; some marginal chips, tears, and repairs. The map and key matted and framed together.