Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
SANSON, NICOLAS. Amerique Septentrionale. Double-page engraved map of North America featuring the Great Lakes and California as a large island. 16x22 1/2 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color in outline, cartouche likely later; tiny repair at upper edge, contemporary ink labeling on verso oxidized and partly visible through the recto. Paris, 1650 [1659]
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"In 1650 Sanson published this landmark map of North America... perhaps, most important for being the first printed map to delineate the five Great Lakes in a recognisable form" -- Burden 294, third state with the shoreline of Lake Ontario shaded.