FRANCIS LAMB AND JOHN SPEED

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

A Map of New England and New York. London: Bassett & Chiswell, [1676]

Copperplate engraved map (400 x 520 mm). from the 1676 edition of Speed's Prospect of the World. A fine, dark impression. Matted and framed.

Provenance

Clive A. Burden, London, 2010;
Vogel Collection no. 805.

Literature

Burden, 455; Tooley #23; McCorkle 676.

Catalogue Note

The famed John Speed map of New England (though somewhat of a misnomer as he was deceased by the time it was issued). It remains a crucial depiction of the increased Anglo influence over what had been largely a Dutch colony. The text on the verso describes not only the area shown on the map but in fact the entire East Coast to Florida, with particular emphasis on the habits and dress of Native Americans.