May 26, 2016 - Sale 2417

Sale 2417 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SENEX, JOHN. A New Map of America From the latest Observations. Engraved map. 20 1/2x23 inches, original hand-color in outline. London: [1719]

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An unusual English depiction of California as an island and with a conjectural mapping of the northwest coast. McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 193; Tooley, "California as an Island," 81; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast, 520.