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Herman Moll. "A Map of Mexico or New Spain Florida now called Louisiana and Part of California &c." From Atlas Geographus: or; A Compleat System of Geography, (Ancient and Modern) For America. London: John Nicholson, 1717. 7 x 10. Very good condition. Framed.
The map is by Herman Moll, who was a Dutch emigré to England after 1680. Moll soon established his own business and became England's most prominent map publisher, his prolific output covered a wide range from loose maps to atlases. His work was highly regarded and often copied due to the quality of detail found in his maps. This map shows North America from just north of the 35th parallel and extends south to encompass all of Central America. Moll includes much detail of settlements and Indian tribes. This area was mostly controlled by the Spanish or French, though a large "Carolina" is shown with "Charles Towne" indicated. $625
After Herman Moll. "Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York, Nouvelle Jersey, et Pensilvanie." Paris, ca. 1730. Engraving. Light hand color and slightly darkened paper. Old separation at lower centerfold and chipping in margins. Expertly conserved and attractive map in overall good condition.
Another map by Moll, an attractive and interesting map of New England taken from from his Atlas Minor (1728). Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, are New York are shown as separate colonies (though strangely formed), while the entire northeast is labeled "Nouvelle Angleterre." Some counties are noted, as are major cities, with rivers shown throughout and Lake Champlain depicted but not named in the upper left corner. $225
Guillaume Delisle. "Carte Du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France." Amsterdam: Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, ca. 1730. 19 1/8 x 22 1/2. Engraving. Hand color. Some paper toning and mottling. Otherwise, very good condition.
An attractively colored example of Delisle's famous map of the Great Lakes and Canada. The map was first issued in 1703, and this example was issued not too long after in Amsterdam. This map is a important example of Delisle's work, seminal in the history of the mapping of America exactly because of his pioneering method and attitude. It was based on years of research, using all the latest reports of travels, explorations and surveys in the region. Delisle was particularly well placed with respect to gathering information on North America, for with his connections in the French court, especially within the Ministry of Marine, he had access to all the official and unofficial reports coming out of New France. It is not surprising, then, given Delisle's method and connections, that this map is so important in the cartographic history of the continent. The depiction of the Great Lakes is a landmark in the history of their mapping, superior to the previous renderings by Sanson and Coronelli. This map is a "mother map" of both Canada and the Great Lakes. Such was its importance that it continued to be published for the rest of the century. The wonderful baroque title cartouche adds a final flourish to the map, showing natives, flora and fauna, and explorers of the New World. $1,200
Jacques Nicolas Bellin. "Carte Des Lacs Du Canada." From Charlevoix's Journal D'un Voyage Fair Par Ordre Du Roi dans L'Amerique Septentrionnale. Paris: Nyon Fils, 1744. 11 1/4 x 17 3/8. Engraving. Very good condition.
From about 1650 to 1750, the French dominated the cartographic world, with their fine, scientifically based maps. These maps were particularly outstanding for the interior of North America. This vast, forested region was explored throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by French trappers, traders and missionaries. The information from their explorations was relayed back to Paris, where it was used by French cartographers to compile the finest maps of the region produced to that time. Nicolas Bellin (1703-72), Hydrographer to the King of France, was one of the best French cartographers of the later period. He is especially noted for his influential series of maps of the Great Lakes, of which this is the first. This map is based on manuscript maps in the French marine archives, in particular those by Chaussegros de Lerys, and it gives the first new information on New France since Delisle's seminal work at the beginning of the century. Despite this, however, the map is renowned for its many geographic errors, including a south-easterly slanted Lake Michigan. The map is especially notorious for the introduction of two non-existent islands in Lake Superior. These islands were "Isle Pontchartrain" and "Isle Philippeaux," the latter of which is shown almost as big as the near-by Isle Royale. These mythical islands were quickly copied by other cartographers and appeared on most maps of North America for the next century.
These islands were named in honor of Jean Frederic Phelippeaux, Comte de Maurepas, Minister of the French Marine from 1723 to 1749 and patron to Charlevoix, and whose patron saint was Anne. Isle Ponchartrain was named for his father, Jerome Phellipeaux, Comte de Ponchartrain, a former minister. It is also possible that Ste. Anne was named after Louis Charley Saint-Ange, who helped to finance Le Ronde's activities. Bellin has often been criticized for adding these non-existent islands for the purpose of flattering his superior. However, recent research indicates that the islands were derived from the first-hand reports of Louis Denys de la Ronde, a fur trapper whose base was located on Lake Superior. It seems that la Ronde derived his belief in these islands from Indian reports that he misinterpreted. However, whatever their origin, the mythical islands first shown by Bellin continued to appear on maps for about 100 years. Isle Philippeaux was even used as a landmark in the 1783 Treaty of Paris that established the border between the British domains and the United States. This is a fine example of the first edition of Bellin's notorious map. $3,500
Emanuel Bowen after Henry Popple. "A New & Accurate Map of the Provinces of North & South Carolina Georgia &c." From A Complete System of Geography. London: E. Bowen, 1747. Engraving. 13 5/8 x 16 3/4. Very good condition.
Emanuel Bowen was a map engraver, printer and publisher in London in the mid-eighteenth century. He achieved considerable success in this field, being appointed as engraver to both Louis XV of France and George II of Britain, and later as Geographer to the latter. He produced some of the most interesting maps of his time. Despite his royal appointments and apparent success, Bowen died in poverty in 1767. Through all the vicissitudes of his life, however, Emanuel Bowen's maps continued at a very high level of quality, as is exampled in this nicely detailed map of the "Provinces" of North and South Carolina and Georgia. This map is a reduced version of the southeastern sheet from Henry Popple's important map of North America (1733). It extends from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to St. Augustine, and stopping just short of Mobile Bay in the west. The detail is most impressive, with rivers, European and Native American settlements, and an indication of the Appalachian Mountains. In what would become Tennessee is a note of the "Charokee Indians." A rare and interesting map of the southeastern part of the British colonies from just before the French & Indian War. $1,350
Emanuel Bowen. "A New Map of Georgia with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana." From John Harris' Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. London, 1748. 14 1/4 x 18 3/4. Engraving. Very good condition. Cummings: 267.
Emanuel Bowen was a map engraver, printer and publisher in London in the mid-eighteenth century. He achieved considerable success in this field, being appointed as engraver to both Louis XV of France and George II of Britain, and later as Geographer to the latter. He produced some of the most interesting maps of his time. Despite his royal appointments and apparent success, Bowen died in poverty in 1767. Through all the vicissitudes of his life, however, Emanuel Bowen's maps continued at a very high level of quality, as exemplified by this nicely detailed map of "Georgia."
This map is the first map to focus just on the colony of Georgia, extending from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River (actually Bowen has the "G" of "Georgia" on the west side of the Mississippi, implying that the colony extended even further). This map was included in John Harris' Voyages which was first issued in 1705. In the 1744-48 edition of this multi-volume work, Harris added a chapter on the history of Georgia and this map was included as part of that chapter. The map is wonderfully work, with copious accurate information. Towns and forts along the Carolina, Georgia, and Florida Atlantic coasts are shown, as are the few settlements in Mobile Bay and along the Mississippi River. The interior of the colony is mostly taken up with Indian tribes and towns, and the very early trading routes are indicated. This is a seminal map of the American southeast, both attractive and fascinating. $5,250
Didier Robert De Vaugondy. "Nouvelle Angleterre Nlle. York, Nlle. Jersey, Pensilvanie Mariland et Virginie." From Atlas Portatif, Universel et Militaire. Paris: Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, 1749. 7 1/2 x 6 3/8. Engraving. Original outline color. Full margins. Very good condition. Pedley: 468.
A interesting French map issued in the Robert De Vaugondy Atlas Portatif. With the 1748 signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession, Robert de Vaugondy came out with an expanded edition of the atlas containing more detailed maps of those areas affect by the war and the subsequent treaty. This map shows the political situation in North America as the French understood it at the end of the American phase of the War, which was also known as King George's War. The only major military event in this war was the capture of Louisburg by the British. The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, however, reverted the political map in North America to that standing before the war. Thus the situation in North America remained unsettled, with both the French and the British claiming the lands lying between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. This map, reflecting the French claims, shows the British colonies as limited by the Appalachian chain, with a wide swath of land south and east of Lakes Eire and Ontario belonging to the French, and even the colon of Carolina, never really in French control, shown as part of the French territory. This map, then, is a fascinating document demonstrating French claims on the eve of their repudiation by arms, soon to begin, in 1755, during the French & Indian War in North America. $525
George Matthäus Seutter the Elder. "Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York cum Regionibus ad fluvium Delaware in America Sitis." Augsburg: M. Seutter, ca. 1750. 22 x 19 1/2. Engraving by Tobias Conrad Lotter. Full original hand color. Light waterstain at left. Else, very good condition. Ref.: J.W. Docktor, "Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York," in The Portolan (Winter, 1993): 12-19.
A wonderful yet misunderstood map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southeastern New York, based upon Lewis Evans' map of 1749, one of the first and most important maps on the region. Evans mapping was the first really accurate and descriptive map of the mid-Atlantic regions to include good interior information. Issued shortly after the Evans map, and enjoying a wider circulation, the Seutter (1678-1757) map would have had a great impact on the European conception of these British colonies. Seutter very closely copied Evans' information. The regions not mapped by Evans are inaccurate on this map, but the central part of the map directly reflects Evans' data, making this one of the most accurate portrayals of that area to the time. This map, then, illustrates the view many Europeans had of this important region at the beginning of the American Revolution.
Along with its cartographic importance, the map has a wonderful, almost humorous visual appeal. The elaborate rococo title cartouche in the upper left presents an idyllic picture of the New World, illustrating American flora and fauna and showing peaceful natives showing-off the fecundity of their world to a prosperous looking European. One of the most salient visual aspects of the map is its crude depiction of rivers and mountains, which is enhanced by typical, bright original coloring. Adding to the appeal of the map is its obviously distorted picture of New England, squeezed into the available space so that the entire region, including Cape Cod, fit into an area narrower than New Jersey. Overall, this is a decorative and historic, though misunderstood, document worthy of any collection. This is the first issue of the map, which was later reprinted by T.C. Lotter, Seutter's son-in-law. $3,200
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy. “Partie De L’Amerique Septentrionale, qui comprend Le Cours De L’Ohio, La N’lle Angleterre, La N’lle York, Le New Jersey, La Pensylvanie, Le Maryland La Virginie, La Caroline.” Paris: G. Robert de Vaugondy, 1755. 18 3/4 x 24 1/2. Engraving by C. Haussard. Original outline color in map and later color added to cartouche. Very good condition. Pedley: 469, State 1.
An attractive example of Gilles Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the British colonies, which was based upon John Mitchell’s great map of North America from the same year. As such, it took information from Lewis Evans on the middle British Colonies and Joshua Fry's and Peter Jefferson's map of Virginia and Maryland. The Mitchell map resulted from many years of British surveying in the colonies of North America, and it represented the best information about the continent that was available to Europeans and Americans in the mid-eighteenth century. Robert de Vaugondy’s map does not cover the entire area shown in Mitchell’s map, but rather focuses on the British colonies, extending from southern Maine to the Carolinas, with an inset of South Carolina and Georgia added in the upper left corner. Dense detail is neatly engraved for the river systems and settlements along the eastern coast and well inland. The mapping of the trans-Allegheny regions–showing the Ohio River, Kentucky, Tennessee, and parts of Ohio–and of the inland areas to the southeast of the Great Lakes and in interior New England is of particular interest, for this shows some of the earliest accurate information of these regions. The dotted lines and outline color designate pre-Treaty of Paris (1763) information about the Ohio country. A rococo title cartouche in the lower right adds a fine decorative touch to this historic document. $1,850
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