Lot 25
  • 25

North America

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

A fine group of two eighteenth-century maps, as follows:



Senex, John. North America corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London, and the Royal Academy at Paris. [London], 1710. Engraved double-page map (38 x 26 1/4 in.; 965 x 667 mm), contemporary handcoloring; a few repairs in margins and folds, hole in left margin affecting printed frame. From his American Maps, vol. 3. Stevens & Tree 61b but without the added imprint "for T. Bowles 1710."; Phillips, Maps, p. 566.



Homann, Johann Baptist. Regni Mexicani sive Novae Hispaniae Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae. Nuremberg, [1759]. Engraved double-page map (21 x 24 ¾ in.; 533 x 628 mm) contemporary handcoloring; repaired tear in right margin entering platemark, tipped on to a board. From his Atlas geographicus major. Phillips, Maps, p. 406.

Condition

A fine group of two eighteenth-century maps, as follows: Senex, John. North America corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London, and the Royal Academy at Paris. [London], 1710. Engraved double-page map (38 x 26 1/4 in.; 965 x 667 mm), contemporary handcoloring; a few repairs in margins and folds, hole in left margin affecting printed frame. From his American Maps, vol. 3. Stevens & Tree 61b but without the added imprint "for T. Bowles 1710."; Phillips, Maps, p. 566. Homann, Johann Baptist. Regni Mexicani sive Novae Hispaniae Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae. Nuremberg, [1759]. Engraved double-page map (21 x 24 ¾ in.; 533 x 628 mm) contemporary handcoloring; repaired tear in right margin entering platemark, tipped on to a board. From his Atlas geographicus major. Phillips, Maps, p. 406.
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