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Zatta, Antonio (fl. 1757-1797) Le Colonie Unite dell'America Settentr[iona]le. Di Nuovo Projezione. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1778. Folio, fifteen double page engraved maps (including the double page title),each hand-colored, depicting Bermuda; the east coast of North America from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to the Great Lakes and south to "Luigiana" and "Messico"; Lake Superior and its coast, with an inset of eastern Florida, including the Keys and Bahamas; Canada, between the Ottawa River and Hudson Bay; Labrador; Lake Michigan, including parts of Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa; Lake Huron, Ontario, Erie, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, the Hudson River, Long Island, and western New England; the Canadian and New England coast from Acadia and the Bay of Fundy, down the coast to the Long Island Sound; Virginia, the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, Louisiana, and the Carolinas; Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and the Carolinas; Jamaica; the Gulf of Mexico, including the coast between Florida and New Orleans, north into Indian territory; the east coast of northern Florida, Georgia, up to Cape Fear; Newfoundland and Cape Breton; and Hudson Bay; each map hand-colored and thrown out on a guard; bound in contemporary limp decorated paper covers; some minor worming to inner marginal folds of maps, spotting, 16 x 12 in.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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