Note 888 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

[This map belongs to Robert Dudley’s Della Arcano del Mare, Firenze, 1647, i. 57, of which there was a second edition, corrected and enlarged, in 1661. The 1647 edition is very rare, and the only copy known to me in America is in Harvard College Library. The author of the note on the map in the Documents relative to the Colonial History of New York, vol. i., where a fac-simile of it is given, did not seem to be aware of its origin. The Rev. E. E. Hale, in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., October, 1873, describes some of the original drawings for Dudley’s maps preserved in the Royal Library at Munich, and says the engraver has omitted some of the names given in the drawing. (Memorial History of Boston, i. 59.) The map of New Netherland differs from other maps of its time, and is not noticed by Asher. Lucini says that he was at work for twelve years on the plates, in an obscure village of Tuscany. The work is usually priced at £20 or £25. Quaritch’s Catalogue, 321, no. 11,971. Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2,747 (150 francs.)—Ed.]