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![Nicholas Visscher, NOVI BELGII NOVAEQUE ANGLIAE NEC NON PARTIS VIRGINIAE TABULA
. [Amsterdam, ca. 1684.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BRM2003-Visscher-Novi-Belgii_edited-Aug-2022-150x150.jpg)
A lovely example of Visscher’s important promotional map of the New Netherlands and New England, composed for the Dutch West India Company. Also sought after for its fine inset prospect of Manhattan, the earliest obtainable view of what became New York City. Background Dutch interest in the region began with the formation of the Dutch […]
An iconic map of the New Netherlands, New England, Pennsylvania and parts of Maryland and Virginia. A superb example in fine original color on thick paper with wide margins. This is an interesting entrant in the “Jansson-Visscher” series of maps, many variants of which were issued over the course of more than a century. The […]
Exceptionally desirable for its advanced geography and one of the earliest views of New Amsterdam. An example of the second and earliest obtainable state. Physical geography This map is one of the most important entries in the “Jansson-Visscher” series, which began with Joannes Jansson‘s 1651 Belgii Novi (Burden #305). In the mid-17th century this was […]
![Nicolaas Jansz. Visscher, NOVI BELGII NOVÆQUE ANGLIÆ NEC NON PARTIS VIRGINIÆ TABULA multis in locis emendata ... [Amsterdam:] Nicolaas Jansz Visscher, [ca. 1656.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BRM4113-Visscher-Novi-Belgii-1656_lowres-scaled-e1656693408456-150x150.jpg)
The earliest obtainable state of Visscher’s important promotional map of the New Netherlands and New England, composed for the Dutch West India Company. Also sought after for its fine inset prospect of Manhattan, the earliest obtainable view of what became New York City. Background Dutch interest in the region began with the formation of the […]