RARE 1775 SIEGE OF BOSTON MAP AND BUNKER HILL BATTLE

Exact Plan of General Gage's Lines on BOSTON Neck in America. Folding, copperplate-engraved map, 12 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches. "Engraved for the Pennsylvania Magazine", it was published in the August 1775 issue of this short-lived, but important periodical and is one of the earliest printed maps of the Revolutionary War. This plan depicts the British fortifications at the entrance to Boston Neck along present-day Washington Street following the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, showing the extensive fieldworks erected by the British Army to protect the entrance to Boston via the Neck, including the main, bastioned, outer line with guard houses flanking the gate, the inner line or "Ministerial Citadel" and various outworks and redoubts, all published in a scale of "1/4 of a Statute Mile." CONDITION: The map is floated in a window mat mount within a handsome frame, apparently hinged or tipped on at the four corners. Folds as issued, now well flattened; there is a small fill in the upper right corner, just outside the lined border, as well as some water staining along the upper edge, extending about an inch downward; light, uniform toning; otherwise very good (not viewed outside of the frame). [with] "A PLAN OF THE ACTION AT BUNKERS HILL ON THE 17TH OF JUNE 1775 Between His Majesty's Troops, Under the Command of Major General Howe, and the Rebel Forces, By Lieut. Page of the Engineers, who acted as Aide de Camp to General Howe in that Action." Engraved for "Frothingham's History" by O. Pelton & W. E. Goldsmith, Boston, 1851. 19 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (view), matted and framed (not viewed outside of frame. CONDITION: creases, slight separation at fold lines, some marginal chipping side and upper edges. JLK Illustrated on p. 201 and p. 137, respectively, of "For Liberty I Live."