Lot 313: John NORMAN (1748? - 1817). Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Attack on

John NORMAN (1748? - 1817). Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill, in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775. [Boston, 1781]. [With:] A View of the Present Seat of War at and near New-York. [Excised from:] Nathaniel LOW, An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, For the Year of Christian Æra, 1777. Boston: Printed by J.Gill, in Queen-Street, and T. and J. Fleet, in Cornhill, [1776]. Period maps of Revolutionary Boston and New York. The Boston map, based on an inset from Sayer and Bennett's The Seat of War in New England (London, 1775), is the first American edition and originally accompanied the first American edition of James Murray's An Impartial History of the War in America (Boston, 1781-1782). The map of New York shows the city circa September 1776, following the Battle of Long Island, but presumably prior to Harlem Heights. Drake 3264; Evans 14829; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 77; Sabin 42402. Engraving. 11 3/8 x 7 1/2 in (290 x 190mm). (Dampstains at left margin, tape reinforcements on verso with two strips of paper affixed to top and bottom margins.) Framed; Woodcut engraving. 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in (172 x 105mm). (Stitch holes at left margin.) Framed with the almanac housed in pocket on the verso.