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Charles Blaskowitz. A Plan of the Town of Newport in Rhode Island. Surveyed by Charles Blaskowitz; engraved and published ...
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Charles Blaskowitz. A Plan of the Town of Newport in Rhode Island. Surveyed by Charles Blaskowitz; engraved and published by William Faden. London: September 1777.345 x 370 mm to the platemark (535 x 385 mm sheet). Engraved plan of the town of Newport published in William Faden's North American Atlas, featuring Goat Island, being the location of Fort George; named streets, quays, buildings and farmlands; a legend naming 19 key sites of interest, including Trinity Church and the meeting houses of various Protestant congregations, Touro Synagogue, being the oldest Jewish temple in the United States, built in 1759, the Redwoods Library, the Goal [sic], the estate of Nathan Kay, which had been donated to the Assistant Minister of Trinity Church and was used for the schooling of "Ten poor boys," the Court House, Alms and Works House, Town School House, and Rope Walks.
ONE OF THE MOST ACCURATE AND DETAILED AMERICAN TOWN PLANS TO DATE, based on the 1774 pre-revolutionary war plan of Newport composed to exact trigonometric measures by Charles Blaskowitz, a member of the survey team overseen by Col. Samuel Holland to perform a scientific mapping of the colonies in anticipation of the French & Indian War in 1763, and engraved and published in 1777 by William Faden in his American Atlas, following the British recapture of the port.
RARE. We can trace only two other copies having appeared at auction in the last ten years.
References: Clark, Maps of the American Revolution, p. 29 [09030]; Nebenzahl, Battle Plans, p. 23 [35].
Condition: Bottom edge trimmed unevenly; lightly toned in the margins.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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