Sale 741 | Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana

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*191 [MAPS & ATLASES]. BEAURAIN, Jean de (1696-1772). Carte De L’Amerique Septle. Pour servir a l’intelligence de la Guerre entre les Anglois et les Insurgents. Paris, 1777. Engraved map with partial hand-coloring in wash and outline of the United States, sheet 24 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (627 x 435 mm). Baroque title cartouche, large inset map “Carte de la Nouvelle York d’une partie de la Nouvelle Angleterre et de la Pensilvany.” (Mild dampstaining, some old adhesive verso, a few short tears just crossing image). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with inset map titled as above, OF THIS RARE SEPARATELY-PUBLISHED MAP OF THE 13 AMERICAN COLONIES, published in France as the nation prepared to enter the Revolutionary War. Property from the Collection of David C. Stuebe, Barrington Hills, Illinois $5,000-7,000

192 [MAPS & ATLASES]. BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) -- BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Americae nova Tabula. [Amsterdam, ca 1635 or later]. Engraved map with hand-coloring of the Americas, visible area 16 1/2 x 22 in. (420 x 555 mm). Decorative top border with vignette views of Havana, St. Domingo, Cartagena, Mexico, Cusco, Potosi, I. la Mocha, Rio Janeiro, and Olinder decorative side borders depicting natives from 10 areas, including Greenland, Virginia, Florida, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, galleons and sea monsters, decorative cartouche, inset of Greenland, Dutch text on verso. 3rd state with the imprint “Auct. Guiljelmo Blaeuw.” Burden 189; Tooley America p. 297. $1,500-2,500

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