Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
POPPLE, HENRY. A Map of the British Empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements Adjacent Thereto. Large engraved map of eastern North America on four sheets of "C&I Honig" watermarked laid paper. Approximately 27x23 inches each sheet size, wide margins with untrimmed deckle edges; original hand-color in outline; early manuscript numbers 111-114 at lower right of each sheet, title sheet with small dampstain just into image at upper right. Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, circa 1755

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Babinski's third state of the Covens & Mortier edition of Popple's monumental 18th-century map of colonial America. A purist's paragon in unaltered, "as-issued" condition.