?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
SMITH, JOHN. New England. Engraved folding map. 12 1/4x14 1/2 inches sheet size, ample margins with deckle edges top and bottom; skillfully closed tear into map from the binding point at left margin, original folds unflattened. London, 1616 (but circa 1635)
"the foundation map of new england" (Burden). A very appealing example of the 9th state, issued in Gerard Mercator's Historia Mundi. Burden 187; McCorkle 614.1.
