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Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline, with colored vignettes & cartouche. 38.7x50.3 cm. (15¼x19¾").

New England, New York, portions of Virginia, etc., with small animal vignettes (including a turkey), several Indian lodges, sailing ships, canoes, etc. Burden states that "This important map was one of the most attractive maps of the Americas at the time. It is noted for the fact that its primary source is the first manuscript map of Adrian Block, 1614. Indeed it is the first full representation of it in print. It is one of the earliest to name Nieu Amsterdam..." Schwartz & Ehrenberg describe this as "one of the earliest large-scale maps to including the part of North America settled by Dutch. First printed map that depicted canoes and North American fauna. Lake Champlain (Lacus Irocoisiensis) shown incorrectly, as in other maps of the period..." German text on verso. Burden 241; Schwartz & Ehrenberg Plate 58.