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Vander Sande Collection | Session I | March 12, 2025

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Featuring fine and rare Pilgrim century furniture, including a paneled oak valuables cabinet from the Mason-Messinger shop; works by North Shore cabinetmakers and joiners such as James Symonds of Salem, Thomas Chase of Newbury, and Thomas Dennis of Ipswich; Boston furniture including a Japanned Queen Anne high chest; decorative arts including 17th-century British ceramics, Nottingham carved mugs, Wrotham, Elers, Ralph Simpson, British Delft, Staffordshire, Westerwald, needlework jewelry caskets, mezzotints, and a rare Boston shell-framed coat of arms.
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Lot 533

Moll - "Beaver Map", Map of British Colonies in North America

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000
Starting Bid
$2,000

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Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732), A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America..., London, Printed and Sold by Tho. Bowles next ye Chapter House in St Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultrey near Stocks Market, 1715 (this edition circa 1735), eighth state with Carolina inset divided into counties, "Georgia" added, engraving on laid paper with minimal hand colored highlights, sheet 40-3/4 x 25 in.; carved and gilt wood frame, 49 x 32-1/2 x 1-5/8 in.

Provenance: Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

Literature: The Southeast in Early Maps by William Cumming, Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, no. 158, pg. 206-208; Degrees of Latitude by Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro, Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2002, no. 19, pg. 114-117

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Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

hinged in on mat with archival tape, moderate toning, scattered light staining throughout, several reinforced tears at edges visible verso, some ink bleed verso, fragile at join and fold lines, paper slightly brittle