Dec 09, 2004 - Sale 2027

Sale 2027 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WITH ORIGINAL COLOR WIT, FREDERICK de. Septentrionaliora Americae a Groenlandia. Double-page engraved map, 495x565 mm, wide margins; hand-colored; a few marginal edge tears, minor separation along bottom of fold. Amsterdam, 1675

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The first state, with no name for the island north of the Hudson Strait. "This chart [of Hudson Bay and Arctic Canada] was published in 1675 and was the final one in the sequence of copies taken from Van Loon's original chart"--Kershaw I:209.