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North America A good group of 3 large-scale maps, as follows: Bowles, Carington. Bowles's New Pocket Map of the United States of America ... as Settled by the Preliminary Articles of Peace, Signed at Versailles the 20th Jan[uar]y 1783. London: [1784]. Folding engraved map (19 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.; 489 x 528 mm), contemporary handcoloring; split at folds and mounted on silk. Publisher's marbled boards slipcase with printed label, inscribed "Presented to E.W. by Wm. H. Sayre 12/21/1839" Phillips, Maps, p. 863. Cary, John. A New Map of Part of the United States of North America, exhibiting the Western Territory, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, &c.... with Upper and Lower Canada. London: 1 June 1805. Double-page engraved map (22 x 26 3/4 in.; 559 x 680 mm), contemporary handcoloring in outline; tiny split in center fold of lower margin repaired on verso, a few marginal spots. From his New Universal Atlas (1808). Phillips, Maps, p. 875. Arrowsmith, Aaron. A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America. London: 1 January 1795, Additions to June 1814. Engraved wall map in 3 sections (two: 51 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.; 1320 x 628 mm, one: 50 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.; 1282 x 368 mm, combined forming a map approximately 51 1/4 x 64 in.; 1320 x 1626 mm), contemporary handcoloring in outline; a few marginal tears of which some are repaired, lightly toned with some offsetting on verso. From his Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo, London, 1816. Phillips, Maps, p. 598; Stevens & Tree 48f.