Lea, Philip:

$25,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

A NEW MAP OF NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW IARSEY, PENSILVANIA, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA. Remarkable example, beautifully hand-colored in full, of this rare and important map of England's North American colonies, first issued by London map publishers John Thornton, Robert Morden, and Philip Lea in 1685, here in the second state, identified by Burden (ca. 1695). This is one of several such general maps of England's American colonies issued in England in the latter half of the 17th century after England had seized from the Dutch the region that became the middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, thus joining England's northern and southern territorial holdings. The map—as well as the larger, multi-sheet wall map of which the 1685 edition formed a separately-issued section—projects an image of a single, unified, coherent, and contiguous English colonial empire in mainland North America. Significantly, it is among the first English maps of America to draw primarily on English rather than Dutch sources and features an inset generally considered to be "the earliest printed chart of New York Harbor" (Augustyn & Cohen). The map is also "one of the first maps to show [the] new colony" of Pennsylvania (Cohen & Taliaferro). As Cohen and Taliaferro explain, the original 1685 state of the map "is actually a separately-issued section of a multi-sheet wall map entitled A New Map of the English Empire in the Continent of America (1685). This ambitious project was a col

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