[SAMUEL PURCHASE] FROM AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO COLONIES [1625]

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

Untitled map of New England and Eastern New France. London: 1625

Copperplate engraved map by Sir William Alexander (300 x 380 mm) from Purchas' Pilgrimes. Matted and framed.

Provenance

Martayan Lan Augustyn, New York, 2008;
Vogel Collection no. 792.

Literature

Burden 208 (state 2, "a map of great importance)

Catalogue Note

An important early map showing the earliest English attempts to colonize New England (in the form of large land patents granted to English nobles, some 20 are delineated). The earliest printed map to name Cape Cod and Nova Scotia.