AN EXACT MAPP OF NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK

Copperplate engraved map after Philip Lea and others (305 x 365 mm). Reinforcement and minor closed tears repaired to central fold, faded manuscript place names along Connecticut River. Matted and framed.

Martayan Lan Augustyn, New York, 2012;
Vogel Collection no. 819.

Reinforcement and minor closed tears repaired to central fold, faded manuscript place names along Connecticut River. Not examined out of frame.
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With contemporary manuscript additions The first 18th century map of New England, it was originally issued as the frontispiece to Cotton Mather's history of the Bay Colony,  Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting. (This example is likely a separate issue.) The geographic information is chiefly drawn from an earlier map by Thornton, Morden, and Lea.