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A cartographic rarity of the American Revolution, being the first printed plan of the Battle of Yorktown, published in 1781 within weeks of Cornwallis’ surrender. “The timeliness of this engraving, in addition to the clear picture it renders of the beginning of the end in Virginia, helps make it an exciting document.” (Nebenzahl, Atlas of […]
![Major Sebastian Bauman / R. Scot Sculp., To His Excellency Gen Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America. This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down, and is most humbly dedicated by his Excellencys Obedient and very humble servant, Sebastn. Bauman Major of the New York or 2nd Regt of Artillery. [Philadelphia,] 1782.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/brm2220-bauman-yorktown-1782_medres-150x150.jpg)
The most desirable printed battle plan of the American Revolution. The Battle of Yorktown was decisive in sealing American independence and made a fitting subject for this map, the first large-scale battle plan published in the United States. It was drawn by Major Sebastian Bauman, a prominent American artillery commander who surveyed the battlefield just days […]
This untitled map covers the East Coast of America from Boston Harbor to the Pamptico River in North Carolina. Its primary purpose is to depict the route of the American and French forces under Generals Washington and Rochambeau from New England to Yorktown and back again. Befitting a route map the emphasis is on features relevant to travel: […]
A desirable impression of this rare battle plan, on heavy paper with wide margins. At the Battle of Yorktown a British army under General Cornwallis was besieged by a Franco-American force under Generals Washington and Rochambeau, reinforced by a French fleet controlling the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. The siege resulted in Cornwallis’ surrender on October 19, […]
A fine separately-issued map, among the earliest to depict the boundaries of the United States established by the Treaty of Paris and with a contemporary plan of the Yorktown campaign. The map depicts North America from Newfoundland to Florida and west just beyond the Mississippi River. Its most significant feature is the line of small […]
A rare and gorgeous battle plan of the siege of Yorktown, issued on the occasion of Lafayette’s triumphal 1825 visit to America. This plan was originally drawn by Major Sebastian Bauman, one of the four officers in charge of the American batteries during the battle. Bauman began surveying the battlefield only three days after the surrender, […]
An American almanac with an early and very rare plan of the siege of Yorktown. The small woodcut map is of considerable interest in the early mapping of the American Revolutionary War. It is the second plan of the battle printed in America, following that by Sebastian Bauman, and the only contemporary one to be directed […]