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Description

Rare Swedish map of the area centered on the Delaware River, published in Stockholm in 1702.

The map shows the Swedish settlements along the Delaware River, including Fort Elsfburg, Fort Kasimer, Fort Chistina, Fort Nassaeu, Niew Gottenburg, Uplandt, Finland, Gripsholm and Niew Wasa, with Philadelphia further upriver.

The map appeared in Thomas Campanius Holm's Kort beskrifning om provincien Nya Swerige uti America. As noted by Frederic Muller in his 1872 Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates on America . . .  entry #1138:

This excessively rare work is of the highest interest the history of Pennsylvania . . . 

The author of the work was the son of the well-known John Campanius, who translated Luther's Catechism into Virginian in 1696 . . .  and who accompanied the Swedish Governor John Printz to New - Sweden in 1642. An account of this voyage, taken from his journal, is inserted in the present work. The maps and plates are no less valuable than the text.   

Rarity

The map is extremely rare on the market. We note only a single example in a dealer catalogue in the past 40 years (John Faupel, Catalogue 85, 1984).