This handsome map of the mid-Atlantic colonies is balanced with an exquisite pictorial cartouche filling the lower right. The map itself is lovely and retains its original colors.  The dominate feature of this map is the huge title cartouche with depicts European merchants, Indians, trade goods, and the fruits of land and sea — imagery intended to attract people to the New World. This was done to promote interest and settlement in “The New World”. [Read more…]