Dec 08, 2011 - Sale 2264

Sale 2264 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
MORDEN, ROBERT. A New Map of the English Empire in America. Engraved map, 500x585 mm, wide margins; nicely hand-colored in outline; margins with numerous small repairs just at edges, scattered discoloration at sheet edges, well away from image. London, circa 1700

Additional Details

Kershaw II, 324 - third state issued separately (this copy without a fold), and with longitudinal coordinates rounded up. Kershaw dates the map to circa 1700. Stevens and Tree 20a; McCorkle 695.3. A revised edition of this map was issued in 1719 with a Senex imprint.