![A New Mapp of America Septentrionale . . . 1669 [California shown as an island] By Richard Blome](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/94304.jpg)
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First edition of Blome's increasing rare map of North America, the second earliest map of the continent published in England, after Briggs landmark map. This is the true first edition, with the dedication to Caecilius Calvert Baron Baltemore. The map is Nicolas Sanson's landmark map of North America. It is the first English map to depict all five Great Lakes and introduces some significant cartographic advances. Newfoundland is improved with the depiction of the Avalon Peninsula. The Mid Atlantic region is significantly improved--with Maryland prominently named, reflecting importance of this region to the map's patron, Lord Baltimore. This is also one of the earliest appearances of the name New Yorke, with New Amsterdam erased immediately below it. There is a curious mountain range in Florida. Pre-dates the naming of the Carolina Colony. The map is richly embellished with animals, sea monsters and sailing ships, along with a lone Indian. The significant cartographic Anglocentric corrections in this map have received little attention, although the map is much scarcer than contemporary French and Dutch maps. A beautiful full color example of this sought after English Map of North America. Burden 397, McLaughlin 42, Tooley 26-28, Wagner 368, Leighly 55.
