Map of Massachusetts proper compiled from Actual Surveys made

by Order of the General Court, and under the inspection of agents of their appointment by Osgood Carleton, fl

$6,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A very rare and highly important early map of Massachusetts. The revised and much improved first official edition of the most important early map of Massachusetts. In three key ways, this edition is a great improvement over Osgood Carleton's 1798 original which was rejected for official sanction by the government of the Commonwealth. Firstly, the coastline and coastal islands have been more correctly rendered, largely due to the incorporation of information from the charts

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