Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 31,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
DUDLEY, ROBERT. Carta particolare della nuoua Belgia è parte della nuoua Anglia. Beautiful engraved sea chart, 475x385 mm, wide margins on 3 sides, left margin is more than ample; matted. Florence, 1647

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first state of the map. A lovely copy of this rarity.
"This is the first printed sea chart of New England and the New Netherlands. Using Mercator's projection for the first time, it is also the earliest to indicate the prevailing winds, ocean currents and magnetic variations of the compass"--Burden 278. McCorkle 646.1.