Accession number
PML 198791
Creator
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
Published
London : Printed for Robert Sayer, in Fleet-street; and Thomas Jefferys, at the corner of St. Martin's Lane in the Strand, MDCCLXVIII [1768].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, about 1905.
Notes
Below imprint: [Price SIX GUINEAS Half Bound.]
Added t.p., in French: Topographie generale de l'Amerique séptentrionale et Indes occidentales ...
English and French.
Added t.p., in French: Topographie generale de l'Amerique séptentrionale et Indes occidentales ...
English and French.
Description
2 unnumabered leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves, 107 maps (some folded) : engravings (maps) ; 56 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Maps are numbered in top corner, supposedly by Washington. A few of the maps are hand-colored.
Provenance
George Washington (1732-1799), his copy, through inheritance to his nephew: Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), his sale, Washingtoniana, M. Thomas & Sons (Philadelphia), 28 Nov. 1876, lot 101, purchased by Joseph Sabin Sr. (1821-1881), note/description (front pastedown); John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), his sale, Anderson, 2 May 1904, lot 12 to George D. Smith; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Smith, about 1905.
Binding
18th-century, probably English, half calf with marbled paper sides; rebacked/repaired.
Classification
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Department