Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2494Location: BostonDate / Time: March 07, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
English Engraved Map of the Virgin Islands Related to the Slave Trade, c. 1826, drawn by James Basire, printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, entitled "The Virgin Islands: accompanying the Report of Major Moody on the State of the liberated Africans in Tortola and the neighboring keys", large folding double-page folio, uncolored, 17 by 28 1/2 in., unframed.
Estimate $2,000-2,400