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Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland Dressee sur la grande carte Angloise de M.rs Josue Fry et Pierre Jefferson.

  • ARTIST: Didier Robert de Vaugondy

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

    DATE: 1755

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 19 x 25 1/4" (48.4 x 54.2 mm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: This is Robert de Vaugondy's rendition of Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson's "A Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia". Arguably, the most important 18th-century map of Virginia. The map provides a detailed look into pre-Revolutionary War Virginia and Maryland, extending west to the Alleghany Mountains and including Delaware and southern New Jersey. Although the title is in French, virtually the entire map is in English.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Original outline color.

  • REFERENCE: Wooldridge, Wm. "Mapping Virginia" #104.

  • CATEGORIES: Maps