Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
[MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS]; and OGILBY, JOHN. America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, letterpress title in red and black, 19 double-page or folding engraved maps, 31 double-page or folding engraved views, 6 full-page engraved portraits, numerous engraved in-text illustrations. Folio, 16 1/4x10 1/4 inches, contemporary worn and detached calf boards, frontis and title-page loose, desires binding; large tear to margin of N5 not affecting text, most plates and maps with some degree of age toning and spotting, several with minor splits at centerfold margins, general Americas and New Discription of Carolina folding maps with little fault. London: for the author, [1671] 1673
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Second issue of Ogilby's English translation of Montanus's work, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld, published in same year. Complete as issued, with the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map replaced with the large folding "First Lords Proprietors" map and the map of Barbados at page 377. The final leaf of instructions for placing the plates retains the first issue listing, not reflecting the present changes. Borba de Moraes, p. 626; Sabin 50089.