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

127 c   MERCATOR, GERARD; and HONDIUS, JODOCUS. Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio. Hand-colored double-page engraved map of the American southeast. 19 1 / 2 x22 3 / 4 inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; minor strengthening along centerfold, faint marginal soiling. Burden 151, with signature “Ssss”. Amsterdam, 1636 or 1638 [1,500/2,500] 128 c   (MIDWEST.) Strong, Ezra. The States of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois and Michigan Territory. Engraved map with original hand-coloring. 22x27 inches sheet size, extra wide margins; backed on modern canvas, staining and toning primarily to margins. New York: Ezra Strong, 1835 [600/900] Scarce map imitating S. Augustus Mitchell’s 1831 map of the same title, but with updates to the information in the former “Northwest Territory” to reflect a “District of Huron Attached to Michigan” to the west of Lake Michigan, modern day Wisconsin. Seen issued as a folding pocket map (Rumsey 5145, an 1834 edition; and Library of Congress, an 1836 edition) but this example shows no evidence of being folded, possibly originally intended as a small-format wall map. 129 129 c   (MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE.) Seutter, Matthaeus. Accurata Delineatio Celeberrimae Regionis Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane... Fluminis Mississippi vel St. Louis. Double-page engraved map of eastern North America with an inset of the Mississippi’s mouth and Louisiana coastline. 20 1 / 2 x24 1 / 2 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color in full; minor edge wear, binding glue discolored along centerfold. Augsburg, circa 1730 [1,500/2,500]