Jun 02, 2011 - Sale 2249

Sale 2249 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
LAËT, JOHANNES de. Florida, et Regiones Vicinae. Double-page engraved map, 285x365 mm, nice wide margins; some offsetting from text, scattered toning; matted and framed. Leyden, 1630

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"In spite of clear statements of the early explorers that the Mississippi was a single large river, Laët gives a distorted and peculiar conception of three large rivers and three small rivers flowing into a large 'Bahia del spiritu Santo'"--Cumming 34.