Manuscript Map On Vellum Depicting Colonial Governor Of Massachusetts Sir Francis Bernards

by Sir Francis Bernard Surveyor Francis Miller

$285,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An incredible eighteenth-century manuscript map on vellum accomplished for Massachusetts Colonial Governor Sir Francis Bernard: among the earliest English surveys of the interior of Maine, and shows Mt. Desert Island. In November 1969, noted historian of cartography William P. Cumming discovered in the family home of Sir Francis Bernard a collection of maps that, in purpose and type, differed so markedly from the more usual military, coastal, and general colonial maps of the

• Binding: Leather

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