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Lot 336
Sale 532 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Dec 6, 2017
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MORTIER, Pieter (1661-1711)
Carte nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise Contenant la Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensylvania Nouvelle Iork, N: Iarsey N: France, et Les Terres Nouvellement Decoverte. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, [1700].Hand-colored engraved map on two sheets of the east coast of North America and the Great Lakes, image 595 x 913 mm (630 x 973 mm sheet). Inset plan of Boston and scale HEIGHTENED IN GOLD. (A few short marginal tears, some repaired on verso.) Though most of the toponyms have been translated into French, the map retains some evidence of its English origin, including the reference for a "Copper Mine" near present-day Chicago. Burden II, 765.
