![VISSCHER, Nicolaus. Novi Belgii novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula, [Amsterdam: ca. 1656]. Hand-coloured engraved map, figural cartouche incorporating view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op t Eylant Manhattans", galleon and canoes (small hole in blank sea area, some very light browning and dampstaining at edges, one marginal tear stopping just short of plate mark), 465 x 554mm. Second state. Burden The Mapping of North America 315; Tooley The Mapping of America, vol.II, p.284.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09280_0474_000(040028).jpg?w=1)
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VISSCHER, Nicolaus. Novi Belgii novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula, [Amsterdam: ca. 1656]. Hand-coloured engraved map, figural cartouche incorporating view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op t Eylant Manhattans", galleon and canoes (small hole in blank sea area, some very light browning and dampstaining at edges, one marginal tear stopping just short of plate mark), 465 x 554mm. Second state. Burden The Mapping of North America 315; Tooley The Mapping of America, vol.II, p.284.
" ... of extreme importance for introducing a view of New Amsterdam in the lower right. This is probably the second published view of the city, the first being that of Joost Hartgers in 1651 ... Of interest is that an example of the second state was used in the first boundary dispute between William Penn and Lord Baltimore of Maryland" (Burden).
" ... of extreme importance for introducing a view of New Amsterdam in the lower right. This is probably the second published view of the city, the first being that of Joost Hartgers in 1651 ... Of interest is that an example of the second state was used in the first boundary dispute between William Penn and Lord Baltimore of Maryland" (Burden).
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