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A Plan of the City of Philadelphia, the Capital of Pennsylvania, from an Actual Survey.
London: Andrew Dury, 4 November 1776. Double-page engraved map, hand colored (520 x 680 mm). Inset Chart of Delaware Bay and River, after Joshua Fisher. Nicely framed. Condition : light browning along the fold. Provenance : Martin P. Snyder. the most detailed map of philadelphia issued at the start of the revolution. “With the start of the Revolution, demand arose in Europe in 1776 for detailed information about the centers of population in America. Andrew Dury, a print publisher in London, was the first person to respond as to Philadelphia. He reissued the Clarkson-Biddle map of 1762 in the same size as the original, showing all important buildings inside the city” (Snyder). The Clarkson-Biddle map was originally published by Philadelphia engraver and print seller Matthew Clarkson and Nicholas Scull’s daughter Mary Biddle. Famed Philadelphia cartographer Scull had drafted the original plan for the map, but died in 1761 before it could be realized. Published in Philadelphia in 1762, the map was the most detailed depiction of the interior of the city produced to that time. This London re-engraving based on the original (which curiously and erroneously attributes the map to Scull’s predecessor surveyor general Benjamin Eastburn, misspelled “Easburn”) reproduces that extraordinary detail: all slips and wharves are identified, numerous churches including the Swede’s Church, Christ Church, St. Paul’s Chuch, the Lutheran Church and many more, various Quaker meeting houses, the Quaker School, the Court House and Market (additionally identified as the location of the Continental Congress), the State House, the jail, Pennsylvania Hospital, the Loganian Library, the Academy and College, and much more. Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution 27; Snyder, COI 44 (this copy illustrated as colorplate 3); Streeter Sale 979.