A Plan of Part of the Provinces of Pensylvania, and East & West New Jersey, shewing the Operations of the Royal Army under the Command of their Excellencies Sir Willm. Howe, & Sir Henry Clinton, Kts. B. from the Landing at Elk River in 1777, to the Embarkation at Navisink in 1778.
London: William Faden 1784. Engraved map (245 x 745 mm). Condition : very wide margins. Provenance : Martin P. Snyder. A remarkable map, depicting from Manhattan in the east to the Nottingham River in the west, with an extraordinary amount of detail added by Faden illustrating the entirety of the British military movements and engagements in the region from 1777-78. “[T]he inveterate Faden traced on one engraving of 1784 … all the movements of the British army from its landing at the head of the Chesapeake to its departure from Philadelphia in May 1778, with the Philadelphia area as the obvious hub” (Snyder). The map itself is based on surveys by John Hills, who during the war served as a British officer but would later publish in Philadelphia the most important early 19th century map of the city. Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans 125; Snyder, COI 316 (this copy illustrated as Fig. 194).
A Plan of Part of the Provinces of Pensylvania, and East & West New Jersey, shewing the Operations of the Royal Army under the Command of their Excellencies Sir Willm. Howe, & Sir Henry Clinton, Kts. B. from the Landing at Elk River in 1777, to the Embarkation at Navisink in 1778.
London: William Faden 1784. Engraved map (245 x 745 mm). Condition : very wide margins. Provenance : Martin P. Snyder. A remarkable map, depicting from Manhattan in the east to the Nottingham River in the west, with an extraordinary amount of detail added by Faden illustrating the entirety of the British military movements and engagements in the region from 1777-78. “[T]he inveterate Faden traced on one engraving of 1784 … all the movements of the British army from its landing at the head of the Chesapeake to its departure from Philadelphia in May 1778, with the Philadelphia area as the obvious hub” (Snyder). The map itself is based on surveys by John Hills, who during the war served as a British officer but would later publish in Philadelphia the most important early 19th century map of the city. Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans 125; Snyder, COI 316 (this copy illustrated as Fig. 194).
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