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Auction archive: Lot number 95

SPEED, JOHN. 1552-1629.

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$2,295
Auction archive: Lot number 95

SPEED, JOHN. 1552-1629.

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$2,295
Beschreibung:

America, with those known parts in that unknowne worlde. London: G. Humble, 1626. Double-page engraved map, 395 x 510 mm. English text on verso, three decorative borders including portraits of native peoples on the left and right, and eight city views along the upper margin, inset map of Greenland and Iceland. Framed. Reinforcement on verso of centerfold. The first state of this first map printed in an atlas to depict California as an island. Burden Mapping of North America 217; Leighly California as an Island 6; Tooley Mapping of America p 113; Wagner Northwest Coast 301b; Wheat Trans-Mississippi West 39.

Auction archive: Lot number 95
Auction:
Datum:
21 Oct 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
Beschreibung:

America, with those known parts in that unknowne worlde. London: G. Humble, 1626. Double-page engraved map, 395 x 510 mm. English text on verso, three decorative borders including portraits of native peoples on the left and right, and eight city views along the upper margin, inset map of Greenland and Iceland. Framed. Reinforcement on verso of centerfold. The first state of this first map printed in an atlas to depict California as an island. Burden Mapping of North America 217; Leighly California as an Island 6; Tooley Mapping of America p 113; Wagner Northwest Coast 301b; Wheat Trans-Mississippi West 39.

Auction archive: Lot number 95
Auction:
Datum:
21 Oct 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
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