The “Abel Buell” map (one of seven copies) from 1784 sold for $1.8 million, and will be lent to the Library of Congress. Story here.
The hand-colored engraved map is 43 inches by 48 inches, consisting of four parts united into one.
Created right after the Treaty of Paris, which marked the formal end of the American Revolutionary War, the Buell map shows the new country. “It covers the territory of the 13 colonies and an area east of the Mississippi River. The state boundaries are quite larger. Virginia, for example, extends from the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River,”
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