Beschreibung
"Engraved map hand-colored in outline (Image: 18 1/4 x 22 in.; 46.4 x 55.9 cm. Sheet: 21 x 21 1/4 in.; 53.3 x 54 cm), figural cartouche comprising a view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op t Eylant Manhattans," the map embellished with a fortified Native American village, canoes, a galleon, bears, beaver, a turkey, and other wild animals. BINDING/CONDITION: Floated on sturdy card stock and enclosed in mylar. Neat repair to 1 3/4 inch tear at bottom of center fold just touching the cartouche, old repair on verso to 1/2 inch tear in left margin. (65B1B) FIRST EDITION, SECOND STATE, being THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE STATE (preceded by a proof known in only three copies), with "t' Fort Kaimier" and without Philadelphia. "Of extreme importance for introducing a view of New Amsterdam. This is probably the second published view of the city, the first being that of Joost Hartgers in 1651. Of interest is that an example of the second state was used in the first boundary dispute between William Penn and Lord Baltimore of Maryland" (Burden). "No general map of the period has great significance … in the historical cartography of New England, the Middle States, Maryland, and Virginia (Wroth, 1942-1943, John Carter Brown Annual Report). PROVENANCE: Evelyn and Eric P. Newman (their sale, Leslie Hindman, 12 November 2018, lot 118) REFERENCES: Augustyn & Cohen, Manhattan in Maps, pp. 32-33; Burden, The Mapping of North America, 315 (state 2); Tooley, The Mapping of America, 2:284 (second state)". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 65ERM007
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