Visscher Novi Belgii Map showing inset of New York

VISSCHER, Nicholaes (1618-1679).
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Engraved map with original hand color.
Amsterdam, c. 1684 (State 4, Burden 315).
20 1/2" x 24 1/2" sheet, 30" x 33 1/2" framed.

Comparable: Sotheby's, 2020 - $10,710.

Decorative example of Visscher's important map of the Northeast, with a large inset view of New York City. This is the first map containing the famous inset view of New Amsterdam, the third known engraved view of New York.

A fine example of the separately issued Visscher map of New England, including the important early view of New Amsterdam. This is the fourth state with the addition of place names such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Nieuw Jorck, as well as the addition of the privilege line to the left of the inset view. The map is based on the 1651 map of Janssonius.

Burden #315 (fourth state); Pritchard & Taliaferro #11; Tooley, R.V. (Amer) p.284, #5); Mercator's World (de Koning) July, 2000, pp.28-33; Augustyn & Cohen, Manhattan In Maps, p.32-33.