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669 AMERIKA. - Mit der seltenen frühen Karte von Neuengland - Wood, William. Nevv Englands Prospect. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called Nevv England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling Reader, or benefit the future Voyager. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop, at the three Golden Lyons in Corne-hill, neere the Royall Exchange. 1635. 4°. 4 ll., folded woodcut map , 83 pp., 2 ll. Late-19th century oxblood leather with gilt title to spine, and gilt roll and fillet to turn-ins, "Myers & Co., London" stamped in corner of inside upper cover. Schätzpreis: (30.000,- €) J. C. Brown Library II, 258 and European Americana 635/134; Burden, The Mapping of North America 239, note; Church 433; Phillips, Maps of America 466; Sabin 105075. - Second edition of the first topographical account of Massachussets, so far as the settlements then extended, first published the previous year. - "The author had lived in New England for four years previous to Aug. 15, 1633, when he sailed for England... Descriptions of the climate, the flora and fauna, and of the Indians are included. The final pages are a Nomenclator,Key to the Language of America
669 AMERIKA. - Mit der seltenen frühen Karte von Neuengland - Wood, William. Nevv Englands Prospect. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called Nevv England: discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling Reader, or benefit the future Voyager. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop, at the three Golden Lyons in Corne-hill, neere the Royall Exchange. 1635. 4°. 4 ll., folded woodcut map , 83 pp., 2 ll. Late-19th century oxblood leather with gilt title to spine, and gilt roll and fillet to turn-ins, "Myers & Co., London" stamped in corner of inside upper cover. Schätzpreis: (30.000,- €) J. C. Brown Library II, 258 and European Americana 635/134; Burden, The Mapping of North America 239, note; Church 433; Phillips, Maps of America 466; Sabin 105075. - Second edition of the first topographical account of Massachussets, so far as the settlements then extended, first published the previous year. - "The author had lived in New England for four years previous to Aug. 15, 1633, when he sailed for England... Descriptions of the climate, the flora and fauna, and of the Indians are included. The final pages are a Nomenclator,Key to the Language of America