Chart of the Coast of America From Ge orge's Bank to Rhode Island including Nantucket Shoals &c. From the latest Surveys J. Norman Sc

by Matthew Clark

$85,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Printed cartographic Americana of the greatest rarity: a map of the Long Island and Cape Cod coasts from the first American-made atlas, the first totally American production of its kind Garvan . Following the American Revolution, as the United States began to form a political identity within their newly-defined boundaries, American cartographers began to wrest control from their former colonial rulers on how those boundaries would be depicted. In 1784, Abel Buell, a

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