Dec 12, 2002 - Sale 1955

Sale 1955 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
CARY, JOHN. A New Map of the West India Isles. Double-page engraved map, with a manuscript add-on of Bermuda, 470x515 mm, wide margins; hand-colored in outline. With a contemporary pen-and-ink and blue wash add-on picturing an enlarged mapping of Bermuda, 150x180 mm, mounted just beneath the engraved Cary mapping (and obscuring a few of the Bahama Islands). London, 1803

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The manuscript addition of a map of Bermuda makes this an attractive curiosity. In addition to the West Indies, the engraved map shows the southern United States, as well as Central America and the northern portion of South America.