May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -

Sale 2706 - Lot 40

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(BERMUDA.) Group of 6 seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century miniature engraved maps. Vp, vd
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- Mercator/Hondius. A Description of the Summer Ilands / Mappa Aestivarum. Engraved map of Bermuda from Historia Mundi on small folio sheet with English text on verso. 7x11¼ inches sheet size, ample margins; minor edge stains. London, circa 1635.

- Pierre Duval. Carte de la Virginie. Double-page engraved map of the North American eastern seaboard with an inset of Bermuda. 6x6½ inches sheet size, wide margins; short closed tear at lower right edge else fine. Paris, circa 1660.

- John Seller. Bermudas al' Summer Islands. Double-page engraved map of Bermuda with an 11-point reference key and vignette of George Somers' shipwreck at the island. 5¾x6 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color; very nice. London, 1682.

- Robert Morden. Aestivarum Insuale al' Barmudas. Double-page engraved map of Bermuda with an 11-point reference key. 6x6½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; minor binding adhesive discoloration at center fold. London, 1693.

- Herman Moll. De Bermudas Eylanden. Engraved map of Bermuda from the Dutch edition of John Oldmixon's British Empire in North America. 7½x4 inches sheet size, lower margin wide, others narrow; excised from the left panel of the map (Carolina.) Amsterdam, 1721.

- Herman Moll. Eine Charte der Insel Bermudos / Carolina. Two-panel map of Bermuda and the American southeast with all toponyms engraved in German. 8¼x12½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original folds, minor toning. London, 1744.

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