Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de Engelsche Virginies van Cabo Cod tot Cabo Canrick

by Pieter Goos

$7,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

One of the finest and most beautiful 17th-century charts of the Northeast of America, from 'De Zee Atlas ofter Water-Weereld.' The seventeenth century was the Golden Age of Dutch mapmaking. As the world's greatest trading nation, marine cartography was a particular specialty, and no one produced more lavish sea charts than Pieter Goos. Finely drawn and engraved, printed on top quality paper, and beautifully coloured, they were intended more for the merchant collector than the

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