图片文件尺寸 : 4438 x 5159px
:Nova Belgica et Anglia nova. Amsterdam: [1642 or later].
Hand-colored double-page engraved map, 388 x 507 mm, Dutch text on verso, decorative cartouche flanked by a native person on each side and surmounted by the Dutch Republic crest, scale bar flanked by mer-children, decorated with three ships, three canoes paddled by natives, a Mohican village, various wildlife including deer, foxes, bears, egrets, rabbits, cranes, turkeys and for the first time on a map beavers, polecats and otters. Framed. Centerfold reinforced on verso, small area of skinning in the Atlantic, but an attractive example.
Blaeu\’s seminal map was the first full printed representation of the manuscript map of Adriaen Block. It is one of the earliest to name Nieu Amsterdam and the earliest to depict insular Manhattan. Burden North America 241.
无 题 新比利时和英格兰阿姆斯特丹:[1642年或更晚]。