The first of three editions of this seminal Revolutionary War-era map of New Jersey, the first to depict New Jersey's resolved northern border with New York, and the standard geographic representation of the state until well into the 19th century. This handsome map depicts the whole of New Jersey, as...
An important Revolutionary War era map, published less than a month after the Declaration of Independence, based on two landmark surveys of the colonies, Claude Sauthier’s large-scale manuscript map of New York (which was subsequently published under the title Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York) and Bernard Ratzer’s survey.....
One of the more significant volumes of the Gentleman’s Magazine, with much content on the revolutionary ferment in the American colonies, including three maps of American interest. The preface notes: “The contentions of the Americans for independence, and of the Mother-country for sovereignty, form an interesting part of the contents.....
