Excellent Antique Map of America with Unusual Northwest Coast of America, c.1754

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Excellent Antique Map of America with Unusual Northwest Coast of America, c.1754

Name: Excellent Antique Map of America with Unusual Northwest Coast of America, c.1754
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: PCT-57950
Price: 645 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1754
Kind: Maps
Technique: Engraved
Size: 35.5 × 40 cm (14 × 15.7 in)
Condition: Good. Good, given age. A few light creases. Top edge with small tear only 0,5 cm extending into image; backed. Original folds as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Reference: PCT-57950

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Nieuwe Kaart van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld, dienende tot aanwyzing van de Scheepstogten der Nederlanderen naar West Indie, a Dutch engraved map of the Americas published in Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion in 1754. A framed title block at the lower left carries the name, and a compass rose sits in the South Pacific.

The sheet covers both continents of the New World, with Greenland and Baffin Bay at the top and Africa and Europe at the right edge. The northwest coast is the notable feature: it includes the strait attributed to Martin d'Aguilar, shown as a possible Northwest Passage through to the Great Lakes, while the rest of the coast runs nearly straight north, with notes on the Russian voyages of 1743. California is drawn as a peninsula, with annotations about Quivira and Teguaio. The British and French colonies of the east are lettered along the Atlantic seaboard, and Hudson Bay, Labrador and the West Indies are named in Dutch.

Tirion's maps were largely based on those of Guillaume de l'Isle, and this one served Dutch readers following the sea routes to the West Indies.

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