Remarques Sur la Navigation de Terre-Neuve a New-York afin d’euiter les Courrants et les bas-fonds au Sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George

by Benjamin Franklin, after Timothy Folger

$40,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Paris: George Louis le Rouge, ca. 1780–1783 . Engraving, 12” x 14.25, sheet size 18.75” x 24.25”, deckled edges, as issued. CONDITION: A beautiful, un-trimmed copy, never folded, with expert extension of paper, 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide, along a 6.5 inch section of the top edge of the sheet where the deckled edge dipped somewhat deeper than elsewhere, light soiling to verso.

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