Fine Cartographic and Printed Americana

Engraved map hand-colored in outline, image 465 x 554 mm (sheet 530 x 615 mm). Figural cartouche incorporating view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op t Eylant Manhattan," galleons, canoes, animals, and a Native American Fort. (1 3/4-in. tear to centerfold a bottom repaired on verso and just touching cartouche, 1/2-in tear to left margin with old repair on verso, tiny hole, slightly browned.). FIRST EDITION, second state, THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE STATE (preceded by a proof known in only 3 copies), with "t' Fort Kaimier" and without Philadelphia. "Of extreme importance for introducing a view of New Amsterdam in the lower right. This is probably the second published view of the city, the first being that of Joost Hartgers in 1651 ... Of interest is that an example of the second state was used in the first boundary dispute between William Penn and Lord Baltimore of Maryland" (Burden). "No general map of the period has greater significancein the historical cartography of New England, the Middle States, Maryland, and Virginia" (Wroth, 1942-3, John Carter Brown Annual Report). See Augustyn & Cohen, Manhattan in Maps, pp.32-33; Burden 315 (state 2); see Phillips 506; Tooley The Mapping of America, vol.II, p.284 (second state).