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AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- Johann MULLER (publisher).

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Leipzig: Johann Carl Müllerischen Buch-und Kunsthandlung, 1776. 4to (260 x 220 mm). Engraved folding map of Boston, with the disposition of British and Continental Army forces hand-colored. Original grey paper wrappers, uncut. Condition: minor age toning; minor chips and tears to the wrappers. a very rare work with a stunning map of revolutionary boston showing the battle of bunker hill. The German pamphlet reviews of the history of the English in North America, followed by sections on New England, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The map bound in the rear, titled Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston, is by Georg Friedrich Frentzel after one by Jean Chevalier de Beaurain published in Paris the same year. It includes three lettered references in the lower margin identifying the site of the 17 June 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill and delinates the positions of the American Army at Cambridge, Charlestown Neck and above Roxbury. The decorative cartouche includes a vignette depicting a British officer attempting to wrest a Liberty Pole from an American patriot. A second part to this work treating the southern colonies containing a map of Long Island was also issued (but separately?). OCLC records only a single copy of this work with both parts (New York Public Library). Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints 706; Krieger & Cobb Mapping Boston p.181, pl.27; Nebenzahl, Bibliography of the Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution 19; Sabin 26980 (first part only).

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