Reiss & Sohn Auctions 224 - 225 • May 6-9, 2025

Lot 1453
Nordamerika in 2 Bll. Pownall-Sayer

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sold

Auction schedule:

08-05-2025 / Lot 1377-1533 / session starting 4.00 PM

Nordamerika. "A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands... according to the last Treaty of peace, concluded at Paris 10th Feb.y 1763. Wherein are particularly distinguished, the several provinces and colonies which compose the British Empire". Grenzkol. Kupferstich-Karte nach Pownall bei R. Sayer & J. Bennett, London, 1777. Mit 2 großen ornament. und floralen Kartuschen, davon eine mit Abb. von Indianern, 2 grenzkol. Nebenkarten (Baffin mit Hudson Bay u. Kalifornien) sowie Textlegenden. Von 4 Platten gedruckt, Gesamtgröße ca. 101:116 cm; je 2 Bll. zusammengesetzt.

Rare wall map of North and Central America. The orignal issue was published in 1755 by Bowen & Gibson, and several, alterated copies resp. issues were published by Sayer; our copy with changed title and in its second issue by Sayer with date "15th Feb. 1777". In the first issue of 10th Jan. of the same year "Pownal's name appears for the first time" (Stevens). The inset-maps show Baffin and Hudson Bays, and California after Kino. - Printed from 4 plates, 2 sheets each joined. Col. in outline. Some browning resp. spotting (mainly due to offsetting); short rep. tear to lower centerfold just affecting image. With 3 old vertical folds each.

Sellers/Van Ee 24 ("5th state"); Stevens/T. 49 (f) (in: Tooley, America S. 83); vgl. Lowery 409 (EA bei Bowen). - Neuausgabe der erstmals 1755 mit abweichendem Titel erschienenen Karte, die mehrfach mit zahlreichen Änderungen versehen bis 1798 neu aufgelegt wurde. - Etwas gebräunt bzw. fleckig (meist durch Druckabklatsch); unten kl. geklebter Bugeinriss bis in den Bildrand. Mit je 3 alten vertikalen Faltstellen.

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