Jun 13, 2024 - Sale 2672

Sale 2672 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CHESAPEAKE -- VIRGINIA.) Group of 7 seventeenth-to-eighteenth-century engraved maps of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. Vp, vd

Additional Details

- Mercator/Hondius. Virginia et Florida. Engraved map of the American Southeast. 6¾x10½ inches sheet size, English text on verso; light soiling and minor loss at upper corner. London, 1635. Burden 155.

- Herman Moll. Virginia and Maryland. Engraved map of the Chesapeake Bay. 14½x9½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; expert margin repairs. London, circa 1730.

- Herman Moll. A New Map of Virginia and Maryland. Hand-colored engraved map of the Chesapeake Bay. 11x8½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original folds, minor foxing. London, circa 1740.

- Thomas Kitchin. A New Map of Virginia from the Best Authorities. Engraved folding map of Virginia from the Chesapeake to the Ohio River. 7x9 inches sheet size, margins trimmed to the neatline; no damages. London: London Magazine, 1761. Jolly LOND-205.

- Thomas Jefferys. A Map of Virginia and Maryland. Engraved folding map of the Chesapeake Bay and inland to the Allegheny Mountains. 6¾x8½ inches sheet size, ample margins; original folds, closed tear into map at left. London, 1756.

- Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Carte De la Virginie, De La Baye Chesapeack, et Pays Voisins. Engraved folding map of the Chesapeake Bay and inland Virginia. 9½x12½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original folds, fine. Paris, 1757.

- Antonio Zatta. Il Maryland, il Jersey Meridionale, la Delaware, e la Parte Orientale della Virginia, e Carolina Settentrionale. Double-page engraved map of the Chesapeake Bay, Outer Banks, and inland to the Ohio River. 15¼x20¼ inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; a very attractive example. Venice, 1778.