Description:
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York cum Regionibus ad Fluvium Delaware in America Sitis. Augsburg: Lotter, 1760. Double folio page copper-plate engraved map on laid paper, hand-colored, with a large cartouche in the upper left showing William Penn trading with indigenous people; a strange map, which shows Cape Cod attached to Connecticut, Massachusetts north of Boston (which is also in Connecticut),and New Hampshire with a long stretch of coastline; New Jersey fares better; New York has taken a novel shape, 24 x 20 1/2 in.
Estimate $800-1,200
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Keywords
William Penn, Tobias Conrad Lotter, Nova Jersey, Nova YorkJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
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