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LEA, Philip. A New Mapp of America Devided Accordi

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London: Lea and Overton, [c. 1685]. Double-page map engraved by James Moxon, hand-colored in outline (482 x 570 mm). Inset of the polar regions, engravings of ships in both oceans. Dedication to Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. Condition: wide margins, very minor expert restoration at sheet edges, light stains in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. one of the earliest maps of the western hemisphere to show the location of philadelphia. This second state of the map is the earliest obtainable, with only the Bibliotheque Nationale copy of the first state published solely by Lea extant. The dating of this map to c. 1685 relies on its advertisment in several catalogues issued by Lea and his address in Cheapside. Besides the importance of the map for locating Philadelphia, the work is quite detailed and among the best British general maps of the late seventeenth century, albeit with California depicted as an island and the English Colonies extending well into the Ohio Valley. As Tooley notes, stylistically the map resembles those in the grand tradition of Blaeu, with Natives in the cartouche and the presence of ships in the oceans. The map is very rare, with only a handful of other known copies, most within 17th century composite atlases. Burden 593; Tooley, The Mapping of America, p. 124.

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