(Washington D.C.) Plan of the City of Washington ~Catalog 62~ Complimented by decorative title blocks

Complimented by decorative title blocks above

A stunning engraving

Two insets show the Telegraph lines throughout the land

Image size 14 x 11

and that unhampered by the economic crash of 1893

(Washington D.C.) Plan of the City of Washington ~Catalog 62~ Complimented by decorative title blocks(Washington D. C.) Plan of the City of Washington. This is the rare first printed map of Washington D. C. Engraved and printed by Thackara & Vallance for "The universal asylum, and Columbian magazine", this is Andrew Ellicott's revision of L'Enfants plan for new capital of the nation. Just a year prior to this map's publication President George Washington commissioned Pierre Charles L'Enfant to devise a plan for the city which would set on the shores