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Lot 57
SPEED, JOHN A Map of New England and New York.
London: Basset and Chiswell, [1676]. Hand-colored double-page engraved map, English text on verso. Neatlines 15 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches (38 x 50.5 cm); framed. Lightly mat toned, somewhat offset along center fold, a few spots, old tape repair to verso at center fold, short split at head of center fold.
One of the earliest English maps of New England after the Jansson-Visscher Dutch-made maps of the region, naming Boston, "New Jarsey," and attaching the name New York to Manhattan rather than New Amsterdam after the somewhat recent takeover from the Dutch. Burden 455; Tooley, pp. 290-291.
C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs
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