GERRITSZ HESSEL; and LAET JOHANNES de Nova Anglia Novum Belg

Sale 2464 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 531

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

GERRITSZ, HESSEL; and LAET, JOHANNES de. Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia. Double-page engraved map of the North American east coast with an inset map of Bermuda. 11 1/2x14 1/2 inches sheet size; hand-color in outline (possibly original); upper margin trimmed to neatline, bibliographic inscription in ink in lower margin, much of the right scale bar damaged and replaced by pencil facsimile. [Leiden, 1630]

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

An important map owing to its being the first in print to name Manhattan, New Amsterdam and Massachusetts. "Arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" (Burden 231).