Wade, William - Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany, Drawn from Nature & Engraved by William Wade

New York and Philadelphia, William Wade and William Groome (Printed by Burton), 1845. Hardcover. Black cloth gilt embossed case covers, Map begins as the front pastedown to the inside cover, then is folded in a fashion unretated to the joints of the six plates that make up the whole. Colored edition, first edition, Very rare. Sold with another copy of the same edition lacking the final 2 feet of the map, could be completed using the whole as a copy and sold as such. A magnificent copy of the complete map, and a very serviceable copy of the incomplete one. Both are the same edition, being the first edition. Quite rare individually, unheard of as a set that can be compared and studied side by side. The map, which starts in East Albany and ends at Brooklyn and Jersey City. There are mile markers and town names on both sides of the river. Both these copies are hand-colored, and exhibit subtle differences in that process. There is no descriptive text with this edition, as there is with the 2nd edition of 1846. VG, typical soiling and age-toning, folds are strong overall on both copies. The case for the incomplete copy is more decorated around the borders. Both cases broken at hinge .

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