A View of the Town of Boston the Capital of New England ... folding engraved frontispiece to The Columbian Magazine for December 1787
by Thomas Pownall, after
$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
Engraved view by Trenchard after Pownall, engraved plate of a drill plough. 787-838pp. 8vo. Disbound. Foxing. For the view: Cresswell 523. Item #374015 An important American edition of an earlier view by Thomas Pownall, here with the American flag replacing the Union Jack at the lower left. In fact, it is among the earliest depictions of the stars and stripes. Here complete with the entire monthly issue of the Columbian Magazine.
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