Holland Map of the Provinces of New York and New Jersey

HOLLAND, Samuel (1728-1801).
The Provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with a part of Pensilvania, and the Governments of Trois Rivieres, and Montreal.
Engraved map with original hand color.
London: Robert Sayer and Thomas Jefferys, 16 June 1775.
53 1/2" x 21 1/8" sheet.

This was the most detailed and accurate colonial map of the important northeast region, including the Connecticut River Valley and lands controlled by the Iroquois.

Large map of the mid-Atlantic colonies based on the surveys of Samuel Holland and Governor Thomas Pownall. This map, published in Thomas Jefferys' great American Atlas of 1775, is based on that of 1768. It covers the region from Lac St. Pierre in Quebec all the way south to Cape James in Maryland.

Condition: top edge hinged to later paper panel with grommets, toned and with some pale dampstain, coloring faded, small stain in upper left, right edge slightly trimmed outside of neat line, folds reinforced on verso.