Live auction - Lot 541
View of New York in the 1660s
[North America]
Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissima tabula.
C. 1674
Hammer price: €
4.000
€ 2.500 / 3.000
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Lot description
Copper engr., 46,5 x 54,3 cm (traces of central fold).
Rare and uncommon map, figuring the east coast of North America with the large, famous and detailed inset or "Restitutio view" of New York entitled "Nieuw Amsterdam onlangs Nieuw Jorck", celebrating the brief re-capture of New Amsterdam by the Dutch on the English in August 1673. Elaborate, allegorical cartouche with native inhabitants. Third state (with Hugo Allard's imprint), verso blank.
Ref. Burden 373.