HALL RALPH Virginia

Sale 2317 - Lot 63

Unsold

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

HALL, RALPH. Virginia. Engraved map, 170x235 mm, ample margins; hand-colored; vertical closure on verso repairing a tear through the map in the right quadrants (just to the left of the burial platform), upper right corner supplied in facsimile (20x30 mm including image; 9x10 mm just the image); matted. London, 1636

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The Hall map borrows heavily from the John Smith map of Virginia from 1612. "He even went so far as naming Hall-poynt in the middle of the map after himself"--Burden 244.
We find only a single copy of the map coming to auction - sold by Swann in 1984 for $1700.