Frontispiece. The City & Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delaware from Kensington

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$3,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Plate 2 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . A finely coloured frontispiece to Birch's celebrated series of Philadelphia views, showing the city's harbour and Delaware River frontage from Kensington, with the great elm traditionally associated with William Penn's treaty dominating the foreground. Birch's view looks south-west across the Delaware from Kensington, placing

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