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Sayer and Bennett Map of No. America and West Indies

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Sayer and Bennett Map of No. America and West Indies
Sayer and Bennett Map of No. America and West Indies

Artist: R. Sayer and J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street

Title: Map of The Coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian Discoveries to the North [etc.] / North America and the West Indies

Date: 1775, Published in London

Medium: Engraved two-sheet folding map joined, hand-colored in outline;


Dimensions: 18 x 44 inches on two joined sheets; 460x1095 mm overall;

Edition Number: 1775 edition Published according to an act of Parliament, 10 June 1775

Description: two sheets covering all of the United States, a good portion of Canada, The Caribbean ,and southward to the northern most portion of South America.


Signature: printed inscriptions on the plate margins for Sayer and Bennett

Condition: in very good condition apart from some minor creasing and staining along one of the folds otherwise in very good original condition, unexamined outside of the frame

Provenance: James J. White Collection

Frame Type: silver print frame archival mat

Frame Size: 29 x 54 inches