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COVENS & MORTIER.
Mer de Sud ou Pacifique, Contenant l’Isle de
Californie.
Engraved folding maritime chart, 600x745 mm, ample or wide margins; hand-
colored in outline; slight darkening along one fold.
Amsterdam, circa 1720
[1,000/1,500]
Originally published in 1700 by Pierre Mortier; this copy printed after 1711 when Covens
took over the firm. Includes a bold portrayal of California as an island. McLaughlin 137;
Leighly 112 [both citing the 1700 edition].
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DE BRY,THEODORE.
Americae pars, nuncVirginia.
Double-page engraved
map, 305x410 mm, ample margins; hand-colored; lower left corner repaired with border
elements supplied in facsimile, other expert repairs at margins, one very small repaired
hole if upper right quadrant, moderate toning overall; archivally hinged along top edge to
larger sheet; framed. Frankfurt, 1590
[7,000/10,000]
Second state. “Theodore de Bry’s map of Virginia, after John White, is one of the most
significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history. It was the most
accuarte map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent”—Burden 76.
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