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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION—PRINTS.) [Habermann, François X.; engraver.]
Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck.
Hand-colored etching, 13
1
/
2
x
20
3
/
4
inches; toned outside of mat lines, mount remnants on verso, short closed tear in
upper margin and other minor wear.
Paris: J. Chereau, circa 1778
[800/1,200]
A fictitious vue d’optique depiction of the massive fire in British-held Manhattan on the night
of 20 September 1776. British troops are beating suspected arsonists; several slaves (clad only
in loincloths) carry pillaged trunks out of the burning buildings. The colorist has clad the
British soldiers in blue, green, and pink, but no red coats are to be seen. See Cresswell 268 for
another printing.
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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION—PRINTS.)
Israel Putnam, Esqr., Major
General of the Connecticut Forces.
Mezzotint, 14 x 10 inches, by an anonymous
engraver after “J. Wilkinson”; minor toning, trimmed within platemark, two pinholes in
image area.
London: C. Shepherd, 9 September 1775
[700/1,000]
One of a series of British portraits of the leading rebels, produced very early in the war. See
Tarbox, Life of Putnam, 217-219; Cresswell 175.
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(ARCTIC.) Hearne, Samuel.
A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in
Hudson’s Bay, to the Northern Ocean.
5 folding maps, 4 folding plates. 8vo, modern
calf; front flyleaf detached; minor marginal wear to maps and the final leaf; embossed
institutional stamp on title page and leaf C8.
Dublin, 1796
[400/600]
Second edition. Hearne was the first to travel overland from Hudson Bay to the Arctic coast,
reaching the mouth of the Coppermine River in 1771. Sabin 31182.
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(ARIZONA.) Mowry, Sylvester.
Arizona and Sonora: The Geography,
History and Resources of the Silver Region of North America.
Frontispiece plate.
12mo, publisher’s cloth, backstrip ends slightly chipped; bookplate removed from front
pastedown. Third edition, expanded. Graff 2920; Howes M869; Sabin 51290.
New York, 1864
[200/300]
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