$960
Early New England, Three Maps. Herman Moll's (d. 1732) New-England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania , [from] Atlas Minor , copperplate engraved map on laid paper, with the number "54" in the top right corner of the plate, outside of the border, a capital letter "A" just under the 70 degree longitude mark on the bottom margin, and the signature mark, "EEE" in the bottom right corner of the plate, also outside of the border, with sixteen lines of text in the lower right corner, describing postal routes, hand-colored, folds, bottom right text box with slight blurriness due to an original printing fault, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. [and] Robert Morden's (d. 1703) A New Map of New England and New York, [page 605/606] and his New England and New York, [page 373/374] removed from 17th century quarto-format editions of his atlas, with seven contiguous text leaves from the same book, pages 599 to 614, [page 605/606 is one of the maps listed above], including the descriptions of West and East New Jersey, and New York, slight worming to the New Map , and minor loss to the outermost border when the page was torn from the book, general age toning, 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. each. (3)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
