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406. CHRISTOPHER BROWNE AND JOHN SENEX, A NEW MAP OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, AND THE
IMPROVED PARTS OF PENNSYLVANIA & NEW JERSEY, 1719, copper plate engraving with hand coloring.
Plate mark 19 ¼ in. x 22 in. Overall 27 ½ in. x 29 ¾ in.
Note: In 1685 Christopher Browne published this double-folio sized map of the Chesapeake Bay region. In 1719 John Senex updated Browne’s plate.
Little inland settlement had occurred during the intervening three decades and so Senex’s revisions were relatively minor. The Browne-Senex map
was commercially very successful and one of the best known views of the Chesapeake Bay colonies during the early eighteenth century.
Source: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
407. NEAR PAIR OF EBONIZED PIANO STOOLS, American, circa 1871-1878, each folding x-frame stool with upholstered
seat and adjustable seat height. Both are labeled.
One label reads: “The X-Tabouret, Patented April 4, 1871, L. Postawka, State Street, Cambridgeport Mass.”
The other label reads:
“Manufactuered by C. A. Cook & Co., Successors to L. Postawka & Co., Cambridgeport Mass.”
Heights 18 to 19 ½ in. Length 23 in. Width 16 in.
Note: An example is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Accession number 1979.218
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