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Rare early map of New England and New York, extending from Long Island (shown as an Island) and Manhattan to Casco Bay and centered on the Connecticut River and the Boston Area. This is the substantially updated version of the map, a substantial improvement over the editions of 1675 and 1680. Many new placenames appear along Long Island and the contiguous coastline and in the Dape Codd regio. The course of the rivers have been corrected and a key naming a number of towns has been added. Block Island appears. From Modern's rare Atlas Terestris, first published in 1687. McCorkle 688.3. A bit soiled in the margins and lower left margin includes some added paper (far from printed image). Backed with a thick 19th Century paper, but generally a very nice example.
Robert Morden (d. 1703) was a British map and globe maker. Little is known about his early life, although he was most likely apprenticed to Joseph Moxon. By 1671, Morden was working from the sign of the Atlas on Cornhill, the same address out of which Moxon had previously worked. Most famous for his English county maps, his geography texts, and his wall maps, Morden entered into many partnerships during his career, usually to finance larger publishing projects.
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