Samuel Holland, 1776

The Battle of Long island
Samuel Holland, 1776
AMERICAN REVOLUTION – BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND. The Seat of Action, between the British and American forces; or, An Authentic plan of the Western part of Long Island, with the engagement of the 27th August 1776 between the King's Forces and the Americans: containing also Staten Island, and the Environs of Amboy and New York, with the course of Hudsons River...to Sandy Hook, from the Surveys of Major [Samuel] Holland. London: Printed for Robert Sayer and Jonathan Bennett, 22 October 1776.

The Battle of Long Island, 1776. The cartographer Samuel Holland (1728-1801) produced a number of important maps of North America from and as Surveyor General for the Northern District before the Revolution incluing maps of the entire New England coast and sections of the Hudson. The present military map depicts in compelling detail a significant portion of Long Island, from Oyster Bay westward to New Brunswick, New Jersey and as far north as Haverstraw Bay, with the British Army's landings at Gravesend and Utrecht and its decisive flanking movement at Bedford and Flatbush in present-day Brooklyn. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 108. A scarce map.

One page, folio, (sheet size: 450 x 395mm) finely engraved, hand-colored, with sandbars in yellow and outlines of Manahattan and Staten Island, as well as the routes of march in red. (Closely trimmed affecting imprint at bottom margin, lightly toned along folds, reinforced on verso, light soiling.)