May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MOUNT, WILLIAM; and PAGE, THOMAS. A Correct Chart of the Caribbee Islands. . . Double-page engraved chart of the Spanish Main. 430x510 mm; hand-colored. London, [circa 1750]

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The map encompasses Puerto Rico to Trinidad to the Venezuelan coast. The English Pilot, Fourth Book, was an incredibly influential sea atlas, dominating navigators' knowledge of the American coasts for more than 60 years. See Cummings, British Maps of Colonial America, page 39.