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Description

Rare separately issued map of Philadelphia, published during the period when Philadelphia what the Capital of the United States.

The map provides a highly detailed look at the City of Philadelphia at the zenith of its importance as an American City.

Important places located on the map include:

  • Congress Hall
  • State House
  • Synagogue
  • Library
  • Philosophical Hall

A number of churches, banks and other buildings are located.

The present example of the map was separately issued and bound into a French composite atlas. The map would later be incorporated into James Hardie's A Short Account of the City of Philadelphia, published in Philadelphia in 1794. Once source attributes the map ot Jacob Johnson. The map would later be re-engraved with a new title, Stephens Plan of the City of Philadelphia.

Hardie's A Short Account of the City of Philadelphia is extremely rare. We locate no examples of either the map or the book at auction or in dealer catalogs.