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“THE GREATEST OF EARLY AMERICAN MAPS”
THOMAS HOLME,
[Across the Top]: A Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America. Begun by Wil: Penn Proprietary and Governour thereof Anno 1681. [Decorative cartouche to right]: A Map of the Province of Pennsilvania. Containing the three Countyes of Chester, Philadelphia, & Bucks, as far as yet Surveyed and Laid out….
The “greatest of early American maps … a masterpiece” (Corcoran).
“This monumental work is without question the finest printed cartographic document relating to North America to be published to date.” (Burden). No other English American colony was mapped in the seventeenth century on such a large scale, and in such amazing detail.
Item #22133, PRICE ON REQUEST
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The Acting Governor of New York
Thanks William Penn for a Gift
ANTHONY BROCKHOLLS,
Autograph Letter Signed to Governor William Penn. New York, May 1, 1683
“As the loadstone attracts Iron, so ought acknowledgemts to pursue faviours … [I] dare not presume any further having soe lately recd soe great a marke of your bounty….”
Deputy Governor Anthony Brockholls of New York extends a cordial note to Governor William Penn in the midst of continuing deliberations between Penn and Lord Baltimore over the southern boundary of Pennsylvania and possession of Delaware.
Item #21618, $40,000
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Pennsylvania Assembly Pledges to Fulfill Terms of Treaty of Fort Stanwix
JOSEPH GALLOWAY,
Autograph Document Signed as Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, to Pennsylvania Governor John Penn, February 10, 1769, [Philadelphia, Pa.] 1 p., 9 x 14¼ in.
The Pennsylvania Assembly vows to enforce land-based provisions of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, negotiated in 1768 by Sir William Johnson with the Six Nations Iroquois. “Nothing, therefore, in our power shall be wanting, which shall appear necessary and effectual to prevent future Settlements on the lands unpurchased of the Indians…”
Item #21157.99, ON HOLD
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