Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia Survey'd

by N. Scull and G. Heap by William Faden

$8,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An exceptionally fine example of the best map of the environs of Philadelphia from the Revolutionary War period. At the beginning of the Revolution, there were few if any current maps of the environs of Philadelphia, which would become a major theatre of war. To remedy this deficiency, William Faden published an enlarged, revised version of Scull & Heap's 1752 A Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent. Faden retained the large-scale rendering of Independence Hall the

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