Lot Details
Lot 96
VISSCHER, NICOLAS Novi Belgii novaeque angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendate.
Amsterdam: circa 1684. Engraved map with hand-coloring. Neatlines 18 3/8 x 22 inches (46.5 x 56 cm) with wider margins; matted and framed. Lightly toned, the central fold strengthened on verso.
A fine example of the separately issued Visscher map of New England, including the important early view of New Amsterdam. This is the fourth state with the addition of place names such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Nieuw Jorck, as well as the addition of the privelige line to the left of the inset view. The map is based on the 1651 map of Janssonius. Burden, The Mapping of America, 315.
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