Boston. John Norman (d. 1817) Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill, in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of

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Boston. John Norman (d. 1817) Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill, in thePeninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775. [Boston, 1781].
First American edition, after an inset originally printed in Sayer and Bennett's The Seat of War in New England, London, 1775; this map originally accompanied the first American edition of James Murray's An Impartial History of the War in America, Boston, 1781-1782; copper-plate engraved plan printed on laid paper, old folds, matted, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Estimate $2,000-2,500


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