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Creative cartography. Boston and Cape Cod are shown in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania are truncated. Kashnor dates as ca. 1760. Date in cartouche looks like it is handwritten, but is in fact printed. See 093:571 MBS for another copy; see RB 150204 for an earlier copy ascribed to Seutter. Cartouche: elaborate with Indians and animals. MS note: 111323. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Phillips, Maps, 672. Verso Text: MS note: Rare! Pensylvanien Notes beginning: Diese Land...
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[Notes from Museum Book Store 093:571] Creative cartography. Boston and Cape Cod are shown in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania are truncated. Kashnor dates as ca. 1760. McCorkle dates as 1750. Cartouche: elaborate with Indians and animals. Ms notes: f4x 14. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 14 150204 Sales description attached.
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Elaborate cartouche. see also 093:272M, a copy with author identified as Seutter, engraving attributed to Lotter. Kashnor dates this map ca. 1760. RLIN record dates as between 1756 and 1762. Elaborate cartouche, uncolored. Ships in lower right.. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical (stretched scale). Watermark: Cross with resemblance to number 4 top. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note:327.
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Kashnor notes, "Gives a good map of New Mexico, locating Santa Fe and Taos; also shows the old boundaries of Louisiana." Kashnor dates as ca. 1730. Derived from L'Isle map. See 093:470M and RB 150049 for other copies. This copy seems earlier with better detailing. Vignettes: Sea battle; Merchants & Indians. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 571.
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Kashnor notes, "This is Lotter's issue of Seutter's map, with the New York view showing the city in 1673, which had been issued about 1730. The plate had been engraved in 1680 for Allard [or Jansson] and had evidently passed into the hands of Seutter, afterwards acquired by Lotter." McCorkle identifies Seutter map as being printed in 1730, this is a later version. Cartouche: Figures paying homage. Vignette: New York in 1673. Numerous figures and animals. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Milliaria. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: McCorkle 730.4. Verso Text: MS note: 587.
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Kashnor notes, "Shows California [as an island] and locates New Albion and Port Sr. Franco. Draco, also shows a good map of New Holland and part of the Coast of New Zealand." Shirley dates as 1666, states original atlas reference. Map can be seen in situ in RB 32671. Elaborately engraved map. Two cartouches, one Latin, one Dutch. Two polar submaps. Elaborate decoration, sun and moon, with birds and bats above, four season figures below, four windheads. Polar projection submaps. Prime meridian: Teneriffe. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Dual Hemisphere. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Shirley 438; BM Maps, Vol. 6, column 852 C.8.d.3; Koeman, Goos 1; Schilder, Map 88; Wagner 393. Verso Text: MS. note: 93/ 63 (on backing).
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