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Thu, Sep 30, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 541

Scarce Thomas Holmes map of Philadelphia

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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Scarce Thomas Holmes map of Philadelphia, ca. 1683, the first printed map of the city and the earliest design for a planned community in America, inscribed A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania in America by Thomas Holme Surveyor General. Sold by Andrew Sowle in Shoreditch London, 12" x 17 3/4". Provenance: A Chester County, Pennsylvania collection.

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Condition

Tape repairs to the folds on verso, some toning and stains, not examined out of frame.

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