Jun 06, 2019 - Sale 2512

Sale 2512 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
MOLL, HERMAN. A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America. Engraved map of Colonial America on two sheets joined. 40 3/4x24 1/2 inches overall, ample margins; original outline hand-color with later additions to the cartouche and beaver inset; original folds reinforced on verso, small edge chips and short repairs. London: H. Moll and I. King, 1715 [1726]
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Moll's famous map of the British Colonies, inset with a scene of industrious, dam-building beavers. Apart from its beloved decoration, the map is important in that it is one of the earliest to depict the British developments in colonial North America and it is the earliest to depict the postal routes between Philadelphia and Portsmouth. Moll has included several interesting engraved text snippets relating details about this early postal service, the Iroquois nation and political treaties between the British and the French. Stevens & Tree 55(b); Kershaw II, 331, State C.