MATHER COTTON An Exact Mapp of New England and New York

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MATHER, COTTON. An Exact Mapp of New England and New York. Double-page engraved map, 305x375 mm, wide margins; moderately foxed and toned overall, upper left corner repaired. London, 1702

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This is "the first general map of New England published in the eighteenth century" (Schwartz & Ehrenberg) and it appeared in Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiastical History of New England from Its First Planting, 1702. McCorkle: New England, 702.3.; Cumming: British Maps of Colonial America, pages 31-33; MapForum: Printed Maps of New England to 1780, 1702:01; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, pages 133-134.