The English colonies in America, with the first printed chart of New York Harbour

A very rare map of the English colonies, showing the coast from Cape Henry north to Boston Harbour. Not only is it one of the first maps to incorporate Augustine Herrman's mapping of Virginia and Maryland, but the inset contains the first printed chart of New York Harbour, based on the manuscript drawn by Philip Wells for William Penn. The map was originally published as part of a wall map of the British Empire in America, issued by Thornton, Morden and Lea in 1685, known by only one known example, in the Bibliotéque Nationale in Paris. However the sheets were designed so that they could also be issued separately, as this example. Later Thornton and Morden sold their interest in this sheet to Lea, who re- issued the map with only his name in c.1695, then issued a third state in c.1698 and a fourth and final state published by George Willdey in c.1715.