Danckerts, Justus | A fine example of an important map of the Eastern Seaboard

Danckerts, Justus
Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non Pennsylvaniæ et partis Virginiæ tabula multis in locis emendata. [Amsterdam: circa 1684]

Engraved map (sheet size: 521 x 616 mm). Period hand-coloring, second state.

A fine example of the second state of Danckerts' important map.

This important map is derived from the Visscher map of about 1655, which is itself drawn from the Janssonius map of 1651. Philip Burden lists three states of this map: the first that was probably published in around 1673, and is easily recognized as it does not include Philadelphia, nor is there mention of Pennsylvania in the title. Burden writes of the present second state: "Following the founding of Philadelphia a revised state was produced ... Danckerts updated the map in a significant manner. The Delaware River is completely revised so that it no longer connects with the Hudson River ... Pennsylvania is named, its boundary is marked, and many largely domestic animals are engraved within the region. Recognition of the English hold over New Amsterdam is seen in the addition to the title to the view of [the words] Nieuw Yorck, eetÿs Genaemt above. ... Along with the addition to the view title ... the main [title] ... has had [the words] Pennsylvaniæ, et partis added as the third line" (Burden II:39-40).

REFERENCE
Manhattan in Maps 32-33; Burden II:434; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 680.2 ; Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island I:148-151; Tooley, The Mapping of America 285 (plate 150); Deak, Picturing America 67

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.