Vassar College Maps and Books of the American Revolution at the beginning of the

at the beginning of the Revolutionary War

Manuscript map in ink and watercolor of the southern portion of North America and northern Mexico

Plate size: 9 1/2 x 13 3/4

The red-billed toucan is a subspecies of the White-throated toucan

” The map is among the first to acknowledge the existence of the Americas and to include all of Africa

Vassar College Maps and Books of the American Revolution at the beginning of theRichard Rummell Vassar College Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 15 x 22 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were distributed. Unlike