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SEUTTER, Georg Matthäus (1678-1757). Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York cum regionibus ad fluvium Delaware in America sitis . [Augsburg: 1751]. Double-page engraved map, with ornate cartouche depicting William Penn trading with native Americans surrounded by indigenous flora and fauna, hand-coloured in outline and with colouring to New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. (Very light dampstain at right-hand edge, mainly in the sea.) 598 x 515mm.
SEUTTER, Georg Matthäus (1678-1757). Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York cum regionibus ad fluvium Delaware in America sitis . [Augsburg: 1751]. Double-page engraved map, with ornate cartouche depicting William Penn trading with native Americans surrounded by indigenous flora and fauna, hand-coloured in outline and with colouring to New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. (Very light dampstain at right-hand edge, mainly in the sea.) 598 x 515mm. PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR MAP OF AMERICA WHICH SHAPED EUROPEAN CONCEPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD. Based on Lewis Evans' map of 1749, this is the second state of Lotter's re-engraving. It has a curiously compacted and distorted north-eastern cartography, and significantly fails to show British colonies west of the Appalachians. This, and the elaborate cartouche depicting a plentiful land, suggests the map was used to promote emigration to the New World from the German-speaking continent. Cf. John Docktor, 'Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania' in Portolan 26, 1993; McCorkle 750.4; Phillips Maps p.672 (giving Lotter imprint and date '[1748?]').