An 18th century playing-card map of the northern British colonies in Canada

A rare miniature map of the northern British colonies in America, including New York, Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. It was engraved by Lamberti for the 'Minchiate', the Florentine version of the Tarot, which had each card marked with an arcane symbol. The full set was published in Augusto Da Rabatta and Jean Baptiste De Baillou's pocket atlas 'Nuovo Atlante Generale'. Information on the map is minimal, but an extensive key gives the names of the various regions.