Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

173 c   OVERTON, JOHN. A New and Most Exact Map of America. Described by N I Vischer and Don into English Enlarged and Corrected Acording to J Blaeu and Oth- ers with the Habits of ye People & ye Manner of ye Cheife Sitties ye Like Never Before. Hand-colored engraved decorative folding map of the Americas. 17 1 / 2 x21 1 / 2 inches sheet size, upper and right margins wide, lower and left shaved to platemark; very nice with no repairs or restorations. London, 1671 [6,000/9,000] Scarce and beautiful separately pub- lished English map of the Western Hemisphere. Native figures, explor- ers’ portraits and city plans elaborately decorate the border panels. Burden 401, second state.