AMERICAN ENGRAVING.

Plan of Campus Martius, at the City of Marietta, Territory of the United States N.W. of the River Ohio. Philadelphia: Spotswood, 1788.

Plan of Campus Martius, at the City of Marietta, Territory of the United States N.W. of the River Ohio. Philadelphia: Spotswood, 1788. Engraved map, 204 x 175 mm, folded, some foxing, creasing at margin.
[APPEARING IN:] The Columbian Magazine, or Monthly Miscellany, Volume 2. Philadelphia: T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist, and J. Trenchard, 1788. 8vo (206 x 127 mm). Numerous engraved plates (some lacking), contemporary boards, rebacked in cloth, two of the folding astrological tables for each issue lacking half the sheet, spine split in two places.

One of the earliest illustrated appearances of an American fort. The November 1788 issue also contains "The Captivity of Mrs. Jemima Howe: the Earliest Recording of Her 1755 Capture by Indians and Her Time in Captivity" (pp 634-637). Realms of Gold 1306; Wheat 668.