Famed ‘Beaver Map’ sells at auction just as Beaver Moon rises over North America
A print of a famous map depicting 18th century British territories in North America sold Friday at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for more than $3,700. The 300-year-old cartographic treasure is widely known as the “Beaver Map” because of the distinctive inset depiction of a colony of Castor Canadensis busily constructing a dam near Niagara Falls. Bidding closed just...
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Brian Cox ,
November 15, 2024
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