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The Rules of Work of the Carpenters in the Town of Boston

[American Revolution Battle Plan] [Plan appearing in:] Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack, for the year of our Redemption, 1780Biblio.com

View of the British Fortress at Stoney-Point Stormed and Carried by a party of the Light Corps of the American Army under the command of Gen. WAYNE on the morning of the 16th of July last.

17793689Scarce Contemporary Stony Point Battle Plan This rather crude woodcut depicts a battle plan of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's daring and dramatic capture of the British fortification at Stony Point about 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York City. The battle planned in detail by Washington took place around midnight on July 16 1779. The lower portion of the battle plan includes a four item key: "A. The British Fortress B. Abattes abatis in front C. The Reserve D. The detached Party who stormed the Works." Nebenzahl's A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution 1775-1795 cites only a 1784 London-printed battle plan by Faden for the Stony Point engagement #145. The offered plan is not noted by Nebenzahl was published in America and was issued five years earlier than the Faden plan. The Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for 1780 would almost certainly have been published in November or December of 1779 – within six months of the actual battle. A very scarce almanac in the trade. Auction records indicate the most recent copy sold at the Gutman sale in 2005 for $4800. Prior to that Swann sold an example in 1979. References: For the almanac: Evans: 16287; Drake: 3290. For the map: Cresswell: 309. Condition: Map appears on verso of title page and measures about 6 ½ x 3 ¾." Almanac is complete in 24 pp. Slight loss of road table text at upper tip of final leaf. ICN 7643. Printed and sold by Draper and Folsom, and John Mycall of Newbury.

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[Massachusetts: Boston] Norman, John [engraver].Biblio.com

Plan of the Town of Boston.

17843834This extremely scarce map of Boston appeared as part of the Geographical Gazetteer of the Towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a work issued in parts as a supplement to The Boston Magazine from October 1784 through December 1785. The map appeared with the October 1784 issue of The Boston Magazine.Wheat & Brun note that this map is based largely on Norman's Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill. published in the Boston edition of An Impartial History of the War in America in 1781. The present map covers a somewhat smaller geographic area and on a modestly larger scale than the map that appeared in An Impartial History. It also adds/eliminates/changes some street names and landmarks making it more than a direct re-engraving and suggesting the involvement of a cartographer -- perhaps Osgood Carleton with whom Norman collaborated on several maps and charts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Norman's 1781 Plan was itself sourced directly from the map appearing in the English edition of An Impartial History 1778.Although the present map is not listed in the Boston Engineering Department's List of Maps of Boston Published Subsequent to 1600 1904 it is referenced in the listing for a 1789 version of the map that had apparently been re-engraved for Norman's Boston Directory 1789. Very scarce. No examples listed for sale in the Antique Map Price Record 1983-2011 and we not aware of any other examples being offered in the past twenty years.A lovely example of one of the most uncommon 18th century maps of Boston.References: Wheat & Brun Maps and Charts Published in America before 1800: 242. Jolly Maps of America in Periodicals before 1800: 402. Lewis: A Guide to Engravings in American Magazines 1741-1810: p. 3. Stauffer American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel: 2361.Condition: A strong image. Soiling and some darkening to plate area apparently as printed. Blank area of upper right corner skillfully replaced and three short fold separations repaired on the reverse.ICN 7760. [Greenleaf and Freeman].

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