?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS. De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: Of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land. 16 maps, 38 plates, illustrations in text. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 inches), contemporary vellum, recased, moderate wear; lacks engraved additional title page but otherwise complete, early manuscript plate list tipped to front free endpaper, first 4 leaves including portrait plate worn along fore-edges with early repairs and rebound, some plates with minor tears or short separations at folds, minor foxing, minor marginal dampstaining on later leaves; inked auction note on front pastedown, inked M.S. Lindner stamp on verso of title page. Amsterdam, 1671
first edition, first issue with map credited to Schagen, and portrait of Maurice of Nassau. "Much sought after by collectors of Americana as it contains one of the first views of New York. . . . Incontestably a beautiful book, profusely illustrated, which has become quite scarce"--Borba de Moraes II:568. "For beauty and wealth of copperplates comparable only to De Bry"--Howes M733 ("b"). Church 613; European Americana 671/209; Sabin 50086; Stokes Manhattan VI:262.
