CATALOG 49 MAPS OF AMERICA AND OF TH E WORLD

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TWO EDITIONS OF THE FIRST SEPARATE
MAP OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
1. (WESTERN HEMISPHERE) MUNSTER, S., Die
Neiuwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien..., 1540/1550.
10" x 13 1/2”. German edition. Good margins, very good
condition. Burden identifies thirteen different states of this
landmark map, this example being the fifth state of 1550.
$2,900.
Sebastian Munster’s woodblock map of the Western
Hemisphere has great importance as both the first separate
map of the Americas ever printed and the first map, along
with Munster’s world map of the same year, to refer to
Magellan’s great ocean by the name he christened it -- Mare
Pacificum. It also includes one of the earliest delineations of
Japan, and shows the archipelago of 7448 islands discovered by Marco Polo. The map first appeared in Munster’s
1540 edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, where he was the first
to publish separate maps of the known continents. Munster
was also one of the first to leave space in the woodblock for
the use of metal type for place names. The map’s inclusion
in his influential volume Cosmography four years later
sealed the fate of “America” as the name for the new world.
ref: Burden 12.
2. (WESTERN HEMISPHERE) MUNSTER, S., Novae Insulae
XXVI Nova Tabula, 1540/1552.
10” x 13 1/4”. Latin edition. Very good condition. This sixth state
of 1552 is the only edition to contain a printed border of bars representing latitude and longitude. $3,500.
LANDMARK IN THE
CARTOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK HARBOR
3. (NEW ENGLAND) GASTALDI/RAMUSIO, untitled
map of New England [La Nouva Francia], 1556/1606.
10 1/2” x 14 1/2”. Excellent condition. $2,900.
Published by Venetian editor Ramusio to accompany the
first printed report of Verazzano’s voyage of 1524, this
strong woodcut map by Gastaldi represents the Atlantic
coastline from New York to Labrador. Gastaldi’s landmark
work is the first to delineate New York Harbor and
Manhattan with some degree of accuracy and detail, drawing the area directly from Verazzano’s reports of the promising harbor he
discovered. Surprisingly, Verazzano’s reports were ignored by most cartographers of the day, and even though Gastaldi’s map was
readily available, New York Harbor would not be sought out again for eighty five years. Manhattan is depicted as the peninsula
“Angouleme,” named after King Francis I, Duke of Angouleme. The map also has significance as being the first separate map devoted to New England and the first to name New France. Commercial fishing was very active in the waters off Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland, and the wide dotted band that snakes from the right to the lower left margin represents the fishing banks. ref: Burden
25, state 3; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, p. 15; Cohen/Augustyn, Manhattan In Maps, pp. 18-19.
THE FIRST PRINTED MAP TO USE NAMES FROM THE
EXPLORATION OF FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE CORONADO
4. (WESTERN HEMISPHERE) RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, Universale Della Parte del
Mundo Nuovamente Ritrovata, c. 1565.
10 1/2” x 10 1/2”. Second edition. Some slight loss
of printing at lower margin, otherwise a very good
example. $3,500.
This woodblock of the Western Hemisphere is the
earliest obtainable accurate map of the Americas. The
map appeared in Ramusio’s Terzo Volvme delle
Navigationi et Viaggi, and has been attributed to the
prominent Italian mapmaker Giacomo Gastaldi. It is
“the first printed American map to include any of the
names from the travels of Francisco Vasquez de
Coronado”-- Burden, and details Coronado’s exploration of the Southwest including Quivira, Cicuich,
Axa, Cucho and Tiguas. Gastaldi also uses information on the Sierra Nevadas from Cabrillo’s important
exploration of the California Coast. Referring to the
use of these names, Wheat wrote: “This earliest cartographic reflection was an advance of the first importance, so
far as the mapping of the American West is concerned.” A remarkable map, especially when one considers it was
prepared little more than sixty years after the discovery of the American continent. ref: Burden 24; Wagner,
Northwest Coast, #35; Wheat, Transmississippi, #9.
BRAUN & HOGENBERG’S 1572 VIEWS OF MEXICO CITY AND CUSCO
5. (MEXICO CITY/CUSCO) BRAUN & HOGENBERG, Mexico, Regia Et Celebris
Hispaniae.../ Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe..., 1572.
10 3/4” x 18 3/4”. Full original color. Large margins. Excellent condition. $1,900.
These remarkable images of Mexico City and Cusco are some of the first engravings of New
World cities ever published, and show the centers of Aztec and Incan culture at the time of their
conquest. They were published in 1572 in the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg’s massive
Civitates Orbis Terrarum, an ambitious geographic undertaking which set out to present views of
all the cities of the world. Six volumes were produced over 35 years and a total of 531 towns and
cities were depicted. These two views on one sheet are the only city views produced by Braun &
Hogenberg relating to America.
THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN NORTH AMERICA
6. (VIRGINIA / SOUTHEAST) WHITE, JOHN
/ DE BRY, THEODORE, Americae pars, nunc
Virginia, 1590.
11 3/4” x 16”. Excellent condition. $14,500.
This map of Virginia, engraved by Theodore
De Bry from a manuscript by John White, is “one
of the most significant cartographical milestones
in colonial North American history. It was the
most accurate map drawn in the sixteenth century
of any part of that continent. It became the prototype of the area until long after James Moxon’s
map in 1671” -- Burden. This remarkable work
was the most detailed printed map of any part of
North America to appear to date. It was the first
printed map to focus on Virginia and the first to
name the Chesapeake Bay. It records the earliest
English attempts at colonization in the New
World, depicting the Virginia area before the disastrous end of the original colony in 1590. The
map portrays the coast from the Chesapeake Bay
to Cape Lookout “in more detail and with greater accuracy than had been done for any other part of the New World for many
years to come” -- Cumming. The map appeared in Book I of De Bry’s massive work on the Americas, the Grands Voyages.
De Bry originally intended to use Jacques Le Moyne’s drawings of the French expedition to the Southeast for the first book
in the series, but was convinced by Sir Walter Raleigh to devote the first book to Virginia in an effort to encourage colonization. De Bry’s Grands Voyages, eventually totalling fourteen books, would become the foundation work on the
Americas, largely responsible for the European conception of the New World. The White/De Bry map had an enormous
influence on the mapping of both Virginia and Carolina. Cumming calls the map “one of the most important type-maps in
Carolina cartography” and goes on to say that “most maps of the New World and of this region showed the influence of De
Bry’s engraving.” ref: Burden 76; Cumming 12.
A LANDMARK OF SOUTHEAST CARTOGRAPHY
7.
(SOUTHEAST)
LE
MOYNE,
JACQUES / DE BRY, THEODORE,
Floridae Americae Provinciae Recens &
exactissima descriptio Auctore Iacobo le
Moyne..., 1591.
14 3/8" x 17 3/4". Strong impression; very
attractive copy. $13,500.
Jacques Le Moyne’s landmark map of
Florida influenced the cartography of the
southeast for nearly 150 years. It was used
as a model for the Hondius map of 1606,
which appeared in an atlas published by
Mercator. With this endorsement from the
most esteemed Dutch cartographers, the
map’s delineations, misconceptions included, were perpetuated throughout the Dutch
period. Engraved from an original which Le
Moyne drew on the scene, the map made crucial strides in the cartography of the
Southeast. Le Moyne accompanied the
French colonizing expedition to the New
World led by Laudonaiere in 1564. In addition to this map, he produced a series of
watercolor paintings of (cont’d)
(cont’d) Indian life and manners. De Bry had attempted to purchase
these manuscripts without success during Le Moyne’s lifetime, and
eventually acquired them from his widow after his death in 1587.
This map and Le Moyne’s paintings of Native life were engraved by
De Bry and appeared in Book II of his Grand Voyages in 1591. The
map is most accurate in delineating the coastlines of northern Florida
and Georgia. Ribaut, the leader of the first French expedition to the
southeast in 1562, conducted careful surveys of the coastline as far
north as Parris Island. Presumably Le Moyne had the benefit of this
information. Moreover, the map was the first to show a number of
inland lakes. In Florida, a lake called "Sarrope" is most likely Lake
Okeechobee, while just north of this is a larger lake probably intended to represent Lake George. On later maps this would become the
great inland lake of the southeast.
Farther north among the Appalacians is
SPECTACULAR EXAMPLE OF
another lake with a waterfall, which is
SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVING
commonly thought to be a representation of Niagara Falls, which Le Moyne
had heard about from Indian reports.
The map has a number of noticeable distortions, the most prominent of which is
the excessive eastward direction of the
Georgia and Carolina coasts. Also, at the
very top of the map is the edge of a body
of water which, based on Verazzano, was
mistakenly thought to be the Pacific.
The manuscript of this map, if there was
one, has not survived and only one of Le
Moyne’s original watercolors exists, that
being in the New York Public Library.
ref: Burden 79; Cumming 14, pl. 15;
Schwartz, Mapping of America, p. 77;
Phillips, ed., The Lowery Collection, pp.
90-2; Fite and Freeman, Old Maps, pp.
69-70.
8. (SOUTHEAST/CARIBBEAN) BENZONI, GIRALOMO/DE BRY,
THEODORE, Occidentalis Americae Partis, vel, earum Regionum quas
Christophorous Columbus primo detexit..., 1594.
13" x 17 1/4". Excellent condition. $11,500.
“One of the most spectacular maps of any part of the world from the [Age
of Discovery] is the map Occidentalis Americae Partis” -- Potter. This map
is one of the earliest separate delineations of Florida and northern South
America, and one of the few of the period to concentrate on the West Indies.
The islands of the Caribbean appear disproportionately large on the map.
Various legends on the map mark the four voyages of Columbus and make
an early mention of the Gulf Stream. The map was executed from the charts
of explorer Giralomo Benzoni, an Italian adventurer who spent fourteen
years in the New World. The account of his travels and this map were published in De Bry’s Grands Voyages. The engraving is one of the finest examples of any period, which along with its primary historical interest, make this
one of the most desirable of the discovery period American maps. “The map
is beautifully designed and engraved and very scarce” -- Potter. ref: Burden
83; Church I, p. 350; Potter p. 164.
EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE
RARE ALEXANDER MAP, 1625
9. (NEW ENGLAND/NOVA SCOTIA) ALEXANDER, SIR
WILLIAM / PURCHAS, untitled map of Eastern Canada,
Newfoundland & New England, 1625.
9 3/4” X 13 1/2”. Good margins. Excellent condition. $7,500.
Second state. The Alexander was not only the best map of the
Northeast Coast to date, it played a significant role in advancing
the English settlement of North America. The map appeared at the
crucial moment when England was launching serious colonial
efforts. The first state of the map accompanied a treatise by Sir
William Alexander called An Encouragement to Colonies, which
was one of the key pieces written to promote settlement. The
names are given of the twenty men who were granted land between
Cape Cod and Maine by the Council for New England in 1623.
The Alexander map is therefore perhaps the most graphic statement of early English interest in the Northeast. Alexander himself
was the first viscount of Canada, where he attempted and failed to
colonize the wilds of Nova Scotia. In addition to its historical
importance, the map has a number of cartographic distinctions. It
is the first map to name Nova Scotia, called New Scotlande on the
map, and contains new and remarkably accurate delineations of both Cape Cod and of Newfoundland, with a more accurate west coast than had appeared up to this time. ref: Schwartz/Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, pp. 99-100 and plate 54;
Suarez, Shedding the Veil, #44.
10. (BERMUDA) BLAEU, WILLEM,
Mappa
Aestivarvm
Insularum.
alias
Barmvda..., 1630.
15 3/4” x 20 3/4”. Full original color. Good
margins. Excellent condition. $2,400.
This stunning map of Bermuda by Willem
Blaeu was based on the famous survey by John
Norwood of the Bermuda Company in 1618
and shows the island divided into lots and
“tribes”. There is a List of Proprietors printed
at the bottom giving the number of shares
assigned to each, recalling the original members of the Bermuda Company. Blaeu’s map is
one of the most influential and beautiful early
maps of the island and is decorated with a
splendid cartouche of Neptune astride the
Royal Arms. ref: Palmer, Printed Maps of
Bermuda, p. 8-9.
11. (VIRGINIA) JANSSON / MERCATOR, Nova Virginiae Tabvla, 1630/1673.
7” x 10”. Unusual in orginal color. Excellent condition. $1,200.
One of the intriguing derivatives of John Smith’s famous map of Virginia is this
version by Johannes Cloppenburg, first issued in 1630. The series was discontinued
in 1636 but the plate was revived in 1673 in a Latin edition by Jan Jansson van
Waesberge. Smith’s map of 1612 is one of the most important maps of America ever
produced and also one with the greatest influence. This late derivative shows that
more than sixty years after its initial publication, the Smith was still the standard map
of the Chesapeake. ref: Burden 226.
12. (SOUTHEAST) JANSSON/MERCATOR, Virginiae Item et Floridae
Americae Provinciarum nova Descriptio, 1630/1673.
7 1/4” x 10”. Unusual in original color. Excellent condition. $1,200.
“Derived from the influential map of the same name by Jodocus Hondius,
1606, it is a faithful reduction” -- Burden. Appearing first in Johannes
Cloppenburg’s atlas of 1630, the plate was reused in 1673 for this printing in a
Latin edition of the smaller Mercator atlas published by Jan Jansson van
Waesberge. ref: Burden 227.
13. (STRAITS OF MAGELLAN) JANSSON/MERCATOR, untitled map of
Tierra Del Fuego and the Straits of Magellan, 1630/1673.
7 1/4” x 10”. Unusual in original color. Excellent condition. $275.
Also from the Jansson/Cloppenburg atlas is this untitled map of Tierra del
Fuego and the Straits of Magellan.
BLAEU’S 1638 VIRGINIA
14. (SOUTHEAST) BLAEU, Virginiae partis
Australis et Floridae partis..., c.1638.
15 1/4” x 19 3/4”. Original outline color. Large
margins. Excellent condition. $1,900.
Cumming calls this map of Virginia the “most
correct map of this area yet to appear” because it
substantially improved the delineation of the
Chesapeake Bay. While based on Hondius’ map
of 1606, Blaeu’s Virginia includes much updated
information, such as the settlement by the Irish at
Newport News and Jamestown upstream on the
James River. Of the map's influence, Cumming
states that "it was closely followed by Jansson's
map of 1641 and the smaller Montanus 1671;
these maps, in turn, influenced other atlases until
the end of the century." ref: Cumming 41;
Burden 253.
15. (ARCTIC) JANSSON, Nova et Accvrata
Poli Arctici..., 1637/c.1659.
16” x 20 3/4”. Original outline color. One tear in
margin, otherwise excellent. $1,500.
This attractive map of the arctic by Jansson
would become the prototype of many later maps
including the Blaeu (1638) and the Pitt (1680).
The unknown northwest coast in conveniently
hidden behind a decorative cartouche. Burden
notes that the map has the unusual feature of “the
attempt to show rhumb lines on a polar map, here
the lines are curved to reflect a straight line
path.” ref: Burden 250, state 3.
FIRST EDITION OF DUDLEY’S CARTA PRIMA GENERALE D’AMERICA
16. (CALIFORNIA / CENTRAL
AMERICA / WEST INDIES)
DUDLEY, ROBERT, Carta prima
Generale d'America dell' India
Occidental e Mare del Zur, 1646.
19” x 27 1/2”. $3,500.
First Edition. This rare chart by
Robert Dudley is the earliest sea
chart to focus on the California
coast. It appeared in Dudley’s
landmark sea atlas, the Arcana del
Mare, which has great significance
as the first sea atlas published by an
Englishman, and the first to attempt
to portray the entire globe. This
important map is curious for its
mixture of Spanish and Portuguese
place names and for the appearance
of an enormous and ficticious bay
entitled “Golfo Profondo". The
legend refers merely to the bay’s
great size and to the lack of any factual knowledge regarding it. The chart is ambiguous as to the insularity of California.
The inset map shows a straight east-west coast line just above Mendacino that suggests the Briggs shape of the island, however Leighly points out that Dudley's map follows the nomenclature of the Daniell's map, which is thought to have been
based on the official map of Vizcaino's voyage that did not posit an island. ref: Wagner 350; cf. Leighly pp. 36-7.
RARE MAP OF THE WEST INDIES
17. (WEST INDIES) JACOBSZ /
LOOTSMAN, Pascaerte van West Indien
Van de Caribes tot aen de Golfo van
Mexico..., c.1650.
16 3/4” x 21 1/4”. Original outline color.
Lower left hand corner strengthened. One
small tear neatly repaired. Light general
browning, but generally a good example of
a rare map. $8,500.
One of the earliest and rarest derivatives
of Hessel Gerritsz’s landmark map of the
West Indies is this chart by Theunis
Jacobsz. Burden calls the Gerritsz an
“extremely rare and virtually unknown
prototype map [that] was a great improvement on those available at the time, and
influenced
numerous
mapmakers.”
Jacobsz added the Delaware Bay to his version of the map and made a number of
other improvements to the coastline, especially around the bay. Jacobsz’s is the third
of some seventeen derivatives of the
Gerritsz map which are listed on page 293
of Burden. ref: Burden 299.
18. (NORTHEAST) JANSSON/VALK &
SCHENK, Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae, Et Partis
Virginiae Novissima Delineatio, 1651/c.1694.
17 1/4” x 20 1/4”. Stunning original color.
Excellent condition. $6,900.
“ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PROTOTYPE
MAPS OF AMERICA” -- BURDEN
“This map by Joannes Janssonius must be
ranked as one of the fundamental prototype maps
of America in the seventeenth century. The model
and nomenclature first laid out here were followed
by later cartographers for over 100 years, and form
part of the celebrated Janssonius-Visscher series of
maps” -- Burden. Unlike many maps of the time,
Jansson shows little or no political bias, and
Burden notes that there “is virtually no European
settlement that is not recorded.” Numerous derivatives of the map appeared in quick succession to
the appearance of the Jansson plate in 1651, many
engraved by the most prominent mapmakers of the
day. Visscher added a view of the fledgling town
of New Amsterdam to the bottom of his version of
Jansson’s map, and variations on this theme continued to be published into the 1750s. This is state
3 of the original Jansson plate, printed after Petrus
Schenk acquired the plates at public auction in
1694 from the heirs of Jansson van Waesberge.
ref: Burden 305, state 3.
SANSON’S 1656 MAP OF CANADA AND THE GREAT LAKES
19. (CANADA/GREAT LAKES) SANSON, N., Le
Canada, ou Nouvelle France..., 1656.
15 3/4” x 21 1/4”. Original outline color. Excellent
condition. $4,800.
This is the first large scale relatively correct
delineation of the Great Lakes by the same cartographer who first showed the five lakes on a single
map. Sanson’s Canada is the earliest French map to
focus on the Northeast, and reveals the colonist’s
growing knowledge of the American interior.
Following the death of Champlain, the mantle of
French exploration in Canada was taken up by
Jesuits who pushed the boundaries of knowledge
ever westward. The Jesuits were prolific writers,
and their documents provided Sanson with much of
the information he used on this landmark map. The
map is an improvement over Sanson’s L’Amerique
Septentrionale of 1650 in many ways, most notably
with the transformation of Lake Erie into a recognizeable lake. The entire drainage basin of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River is in greater detail than on his previous map,
as is the Hudson Bay. “This delineation would considerably influence the cartography of the region for over 100 years, it was
not superceded until Guillaume de L’Isle’s Carte du Canada in 1703” -- Burden. A true foundation map in the cartography of
North America. ref: Schwartz & Ehrenberg pl. 63; Burden 318.
20. (WEST INDIES) VISSCHER, Insulae
Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali..., c.1680.
18 1/4” x 22 1/4”. Original color. Excellent condition. $950.
The Visscher family of engravers and publishers was prominent in Amsterdam for over a century and spanned three generations. Their illustrious publishing history began in 1600 when
Claes Janszoon Visscher published a Panorama of
London by Hollar and went on to found the family business, which expanded over the years to
become one of the top publishing houses in Dutch
history. The business was passed on to his son
Nicolas I, and then his grandson, Nicolas II, and
was continued after Nicolas II’s death in 1702 by
his wife Elizabeth who managed the firm until
1726, although most of the business was passed to
Petrus Schenk in 1717. This decorative map of
the Caribbean in full original color is an excellent
example of their work.
21. (ATLANTIC/GUINEA/BRAZIL)
VAN KEULEN, J., Pascaarte vande Zee
Custen van Guinea en Brasilea, 1681.
20 1/2” x 23 1/2”. Original color. Good
margins. Heavy paper. Excellent condition. $900.
Johannes Van Keulen’s chart of the
Atlantic was intended for the navigation
to West Africa and the Americas. It is an
updated section of Blaeu’s influential
Chart of the Atlantic (1625). The chart
was a progressive hydrographical work
which became more accurate in later editions like this one by Holland’s leading
chart maker. ref: Early Sea Charts, pp.
56-59.
VAN KEULEN’S NEW YORK [pictured on next page]
22. (NEW YORK) VAN KEULEN, J., Pas-Kaart Vande Zee Kusten van Niew Nederland Anders Genaamt Niew
York..., 1685.
20 1/4” x 23”. Good margins. Right and left margin strengthened with no loss of printed surface. Strong impression.
Very good condition. $5,900.
Van Keulen’s chart of New York and Long Island is one of the earliest obtainable charts to focus on the area. The
map shows many early Dutch and English settlements including Breukelen, Hopoghan, Ooyster Bay, and Tapaan.
Stokes notes that “the map is important because of the inclusion of many names not occurring on other maps as well
as for its large scale inset map of the Hudson River, which is believed to be the first detailed engraved map of that
river.” There is an additional inset map of the Connecticut River, which is the earliest separate depiction of that river
on a printed map. ref: Stokes II, pp. 158-159.
VAN KEULEN’S
CHART OF NEW YORK
[described on previous page]
LARGE SCALE MAP OF THE
ATLANTIC COAST
23. (EAST COAST) VISSCHER, N. / SCHENK, P., Nova Tabula Geographica Com-plectens Boreal-iorem Americae
Partem... [with] Carte Nouvelle contenant la partie d’Amerique, c.1685/c.1745.
23 1/2” x 35 1/2”. Third and final state. Two sheets joined. Original outline color. Excellent. $2,800.
"This beautiful map... is probably the most detailed delineation of the coastline from the Carolinas [to Newfoundland]
drawn in the 17th century. The cartography of the Atlantic seacoast is exceptional for the period” - Morrison. The map
consists of two individual maps joined together which provide a continuous North American coastline with extraordinary
detail and accuracy. Originally published c.1685, the map was influential for many years -- an error in the shape of the
Delmarva peninsula was still being copied decades later by German mapmaker Johann Baptist Homann. This edition is the
third and final state of the map, published by Petrus Schenk around 1745. Schenk completely re-engraved the island of
Cape Breton adding many place names and including a large new inset map of Louisbourg. ref: Morrison, On The Map,
p.45, fig. 28 (left half only); Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, #321, plate 207.
CORONELLI’S WESTERN HEMISPHERE
24.
(WESTERN
HEMISPHERE)
CORONELLI, Planisfero del mondo
Nuovo, descritio dal P. Coronelli, cosmografo Publico..., c. 1688.
18” x 24”. One small stain, otherwise
excellent. $2,200.
John Goss calls Coronelli’s impressive
map of the Western Hemisphere “one of
the more attractive maps of North
America of the late seventeenth century,
and one of the very few of any geographical importance produced in Italy at the
time.” The map is an interesting mixture
of fantasy and up-to-date geography. The
delineation of the Great Lakes utilizes the
latest information from the Jesuit
Relations, including such accounts as La
Salle, Jolliet, Franquelin, and Marquette.
The information on the Mississippi valley
is based on La Salle’s report of the discovery of the mouth of that great river in
1682. Nevertheless, the Mississippi itself
is placed some six hundred miles too far
to the west, and California is still portrayed as a huge island, despite the increasing belief that it might be a peninsula after
all. The tables which encircle the sphere give distance equivalents, eclipse information, and astronomical data. In addition to its geographical interest, this elegant map is a superb example of the high standard of engraving and design by the
Venetian master, Vincenzo Coronelli. Coronelli was the leading mapmaker of his time and founder of the world’s first
formally organized geographical society, the “Argonauti” or “Accademia Cosmografo della Serenissima Rebublica.” ref:
John Goss, The Mapping of North America, #43, pp. 98-99.
CORONELLI / NOLIN MAP OF CANADA AND THE NORTHEAST
25. (NORTHEAST) CORONELLI /
NOLIN, Partie Orientale du Canada ou
de la Nouvelle France..., 1689.
17 1/2” x 23 1/4”. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $3,000.
Second issue with additions by
Tillemon. This map is one of several
works of North America by Vincenzo
Coronelli, the great cosmographer to the
Venetian republic, and published by Jean
Baptiste Nolin, engraver to the French
king. In preparing the map, Coronelli
examined all of the published and manuscript maps relating to the explorations of
the Jesuits, Jolliet, Marquette, Hennepin
and La Salle. He filled the map with historical notes as evidence of careful
research. The result was a work so accurate that it was not to be surpassed until the
eighteenth century. The collaboration
between Nolin and Coronelli greatly expanded each of their publishing activities because their talents were so
complimentary. Nolin, the masterful engraver, was not a significant cartographer, while Coronelli, the supreme
Italian cartographer, had difficulty finding skillful engravers in Venice. ref: Kershaw 160.
SANSON/MORTIER CAROLINA
26. (SOUTHEAST) SANSON / MORTIER,
PIERRE, Carte General De La Caroline...,
1696/c.1720.
22 1/4” x 18 1/4”. Later full hand color. Very good
condition. $2,400.
The Sanson/Mortier Carte General de la
Caroline is a faithful re-engraving of the landmark
1685 Thornton-Morden-Lea map of the area which
is now virtually unobtainable. Cumming notes that
the maps are identical “even to the smallest topographical detail,” providing the most complete and
up-to-date view of the Carolinas available at the
end of the seventeenth century. The original counties are named, and numerous estates and plantations are identified. There is an inset map of the
Charleston area in the lower right. ref: Cumming
120.
RARE APPEARANCE OF
NEW EDINBURGH
27. (CENTRAL AMERICA / CARTAGENA)
MORTIER,
PIERRE,
Carte Particuliere de
Isthmus ou Darien qui comprende le Golfe de Panama
&tc. Cartagene, c.1700.
24” x 33 1/2”. Good margins.
Original color.
Excellent condition. $950.
This stunning, large
scale map published by
Mortier is one of the few
maps to show the shortlived Scottish settlement of
New Edinburgh along the
Isthmus of Darien in
Central America. David
Armitage, in his article for
the
JCB’s
exhibition,
Scotland and the Americas,
notes that “the Scottish
attempt to plant a colony
and trading point on the Isthmus of Panama in 1698-1700 marked a pivotal moment in the relationship between Scotland
and the Americas. The scope and ambition of the Darien venture made it the most spectacular of all Scottish attempts to
establish an independent settlement in the Americas.” The colony was an unmitigated disaster, ending in death, disease
and starvation for many of the Scottish settlers, who were also under military attack by Spanish forces who fiercely asserted their claim to the area. Mortier’s map shows New Edinburgh prominently, and includes large insets of the Golden
Islands and Cartagena. ref: Armitage, JCB: Scotland and the Americas, pp. 3-13; Koeman III p. 17; Mor I, map III.
MORTIER’S PACIFIC
28. (PACIFIC/CALIFORNIA AS
AN ISLAND) MORTIER,
PIERRE, Mer de Sud ou
Pacifique, Contenant L’isle De
Californe..., 1700.
23 1/2” x 29 1/4”. Strong impression. Good margins. Excellent
condition. $5,500.
This large scale chart of the
Pacific appeared in Mortier’s lavish Neptune Francois, which
Koeman calls “the most expensive
sea atlas ever published in
Amsterdam in the 17th century.
Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than those of any
preceding book of its kind.” In
1700 Mortier expanded his atlas
with the Suite du Neptune
Francois, a group of maps copied
by d’Ablancourt from important
manuscipt maps collected by the Portuguese crown, including this chart of the Pacific. The appeaence of
Dutch maps based on Spanish or Portuguese sources was rare, as both countries were notorious for secreting away their geographical knowledge. ref: Tooley, The Mapping of America, #64, p.127; McLaughlin
137; Koeman IV, pp. 423-424 & p. 430.
DE L’ISLE’S CANADA
29. (CANADA / GREAT LAKES) DE
L’ISLE, Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle
France ..., 1703/08.
19 1/2” x 25 1/2”. First edition, third state.
Unusual in full wash color and original outline
color. Upper and lower margins cut close with
no loss to neat line, otherwise very good.
$2,500.
Kershaw calls De L’Isle’s 1703 map of
Canada “one of the most outstanding maps of
either the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.”
It provided the best delineation of the Great
Lakes for the period and is the first printed
map to show Detroit, only two years after the
founding of that village by Cadillac. Based on
the work of Joilet and the Jesuits, De L’Isle
gives “a superior rendering of the Great Lakes
area” -- Tooley. ref: Kershaw 310; Tooley, The
Mapping of America, p. 20.
TWO LANDMARK MAPS BY GUILLAUME DE L’ISLE
FIRST ACCURATE MAPPING OF
THE MISSISSIPPI
30. (SOUTHEAST/GULF OF MEXICO) DE
L'ISLE, GUILLAUME, Carte du Mexique
et de la Floride des Terres Angloises... A Paris
chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge...,
1703/1708.
18 3/4” x 25 1/2”. Original outline color.
Good margins. Light browning at centerfold,
otherwise very good. $3,500.
THE FIRST MAP TO NAME TEXAS
31. (TEXAS/MISSISSIPPI/LOUISIANA) DE L'ISLE,
GUILLAUME, Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du
Mississipi Dressee sur un grand nombre..., 1718.
19” x 25 1/2”. First edition, without the addition of New
Orleans. Original outline color. Good Margins. Excellent
condition. $11,000.
“One of the most important mother maps of the North
American continent” -- W.P. Cumming. This landmark map
is the source of all later delineations of the Mississippi. It is
"the first detailed map of the Gulf region and the
Mississippi." De L'Isle had access to the latest sources
which he skillfully incorporated into his map. Information
from the expeditions of Hernando de Soto,
Henri de Tonty, and Louis de St. Denis are
included, as well as details from other such
explorers as Bourdon and Bourgnaud. The
region between the Mississippi and Arkansas
is "land full of mines" because the Canadian
Bourdon reported gold, silver, lead and copper mines west of the Great River. And De
L'Isle produced a new layout of the Missouri
River using notes provided by Etienne
Veniard de Bourgnaud. This map has further
significance as being the first to name Texas
with the phrase "Mission de los Teijas etablie
en 1716." This rare first state does not
include the appearance of New Orleans,
which was added to the map in the second
state later the same year. ref: Martin &
Martin, pp. 98-99; Tooley 43; Schwartz &
Ehrenberg, pl. 84.
De L’Isle’s Carte du Mexique has special
significance as the first printed map to accurately portray the course and mouth of the
Mississippi River. Using firsthand reports
from the survivors of La Salle’s expedition, as
well as information from such important
explorers and colonizers as Bienville and
d’Iberville, De L’Isle created a map which
historian Carl Wheat called “a towering landmark along the path of Western cartographic development.”
He correctly depicted not only the elusive Mississippi, but
also the Great Lakes region, as well as the many English settlements along the East Coast. De L’Isle carefully set down
the explorations of d’Iberville along the Gulf Coast and the
lower reaches of the Mississippi and Red rivers, and depicts
the Indian villages in East Texas where the Spanish constructed their missions. The map provides the best depiction
of the Southwest to date, showing many trails and Indian
tribes. This remarkable map influenced the delineation of
the Mississippi Valley for many years. ref: Schwartz &
Ehrenberg, pp. 142-143, plate 82; Martin & Martin, pp. 9293, plate 14; Cumming 137.
LOTTER’S NEW ENGLAND
32. (NEW ENGLAND/NEW YORK)
LOTTER/SEUTTER, Recens edita
totius Novi Belgii in America
Septentrionali... Tob. Conr. Lotteri...,
1730/c.1757.
19 1/2” x 22 3/4”. Full original color.
Good margins. Excellent condition.
$3,200.
Seutter’s version of the famous
Jansson/Visscher map of New England,
originally published in 1730, was the first
in the series to have printed lines showing
the boundaries between Massachusetts,
New England, New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania. Previously these divisions
had been left to the colorist, who improvised boundaries by tinting the different
provinces. The Seutter map is distinguished by a large and elaborate cartouche
over the inset view of New York, which
depicts natives and gods presenting tribute to a seated English monarch, most
likely George II. This edition was published after Seutter’s death in 1757 by his
son-in-law Tobias Conrad Lotter. ref:
Tooley, The Mapping of America, #26a, p.
292.
DECORATIVE MAP OF THE WEST INDIES
33. (WEST INDIES) OTTENS,
REINIER & JOSUA, Insulae
Americanae Nempe... (additional title:
Stoel des Oorlogs in America...), c. 1740.
19 1/4” x 22 1/2”. Full original color.
Good margins. Excellent condition.
$1,800.
The Ottens family of publishers flourished in Amsterdam through three generations from 1663 to 1775. This beautifully executed map of the West Indies
was issued by brothers Reinier & Joshua,
who were responsible for the most active
period in the company’s history. They
were famous for producing enormous
collections of maps, some filling fifteen
volumes, which were made to order and
magnificently colored. This handsome
map of the Caribbean is typical of the
high quality of their work. ref: Moreland
& Bannister, Antique Maps, p. 122.
THORNTON’S
CHART OF THE
CHESAPEAKE
34.
(VIRGINIA/CHESAPEAKE BAY) THORNTON,
JOHN
/FISHER,
WILLIAM/MOUNT
&
PAGE, Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsilvania, East & West
New Jarsey, c.1743.
20” x 31 1/4”. Good margins.
Very good condition. $5,500.
Second edition, first state.
Verner calls this chart
Thornton’s most notable contribution to Maryland /
Virginia cartography.
An
extremely influential and useful map with a long and complex history, “the Thornton and Fisher chart remained in print in one fashion or another for 105 years with few changes”
-- Morrison. This detailed chart, which appeared in editions of The English Pilot: The Fourth Book beginning in 1689,
was closely based on Augustine Hermann’s landmark map of the Chesapeake, but contains additional information on New
Jersey and the Delaware Bay, probably from the Holmes map of the three eastern counties of Pennsylvania. ref: Morrison,
On The Map, pp. 58-60, fig #38; Seller & Van Ee, #719-720.
35. (CANADA/GREAT LAKES/NORTHEAST) BELLIN, Partie Occedentale de la
Nouvelle France ou Canada, 1745.
18 3/4” x 24”. Excellent condition. $2,800.
Rare first edition. Bellin’s map of the Great
Lakes set the standard for the area until the end
of the eighteenth century. This was the first
map to introduce an enormous ficticious island
“I Philippeaux Aut. I Minang” into Lake
Superior, appearing just south of “Isle Royale”.
This island, along with several smaller, equally
ficticious ones, continued to appear on maps of
Lake Superior for nearly a century -- the
American geographer Morse went so far as to
publish maps in which such islands filled the
majority of Lake Superior. This geographic fantasy later caused a dispute regarding the
U.S./Canadian border which was not settled
until the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.
Despite his infamous false islands, Bellin’s map
was by far the best rendering of the Great Lakes
to date, and was used as the model of the area by
many others including Jefferys, Carver, and
Condor. ref: Karpinski LVII, p. 138.
RARE FIRST EDITION OF BELLIN’S GREAT LAKES
36. (GEORGIA) SEUTTER, G. M., Plan
von neu Ebenezer verlegt von Matth.
Seutter..., c.1747.
RARE CITY PLAN BY SEUTTER
19 3/4” x 22 1/2”. Full original color.
Excellent condition. $4,500.
A rare city plan used by German
Protestant settlers who came to Georgia
seeking refuge from religious persecution.
General James Oglethorpe, the founder of
Georgia, selected a site north of Savannah
for these refugees from Salzburg. When
this original site proved unworkable, the
settlement was moved a few miles east,
but the same city plan was used.
According to Cumming, “That this
ordered plan was partially executed is
shown by the actual survey of Ebenezer
taken about 1770 by De Brokar.” The
town plan, with vibrant illustrations of
Georgia’s tropical color, followed “the
same pattern that had proved successful at
Savannah” -- Reps. Accompanying it on
the same double folio sheet are a map of
the southeast showing early Georgia settlements, a detail of “Great St. Simon’s
Isle,” and a color inset of a watermill. ref:
Cumming, p.215; Deak, Picturing
America #95; Reps, Town Planning in
Frontier America, p.247.
37. (SOUTHEAST / FLORIDA /
CARIBBEAN) SELIGMAN / CATESBY, Carolinae Floridae nec non
Insvlarvm Bahamensivm... a Ioh. Michael
Seligmann, 1755.
16 3/4” x 23”. Full original color. Some
light staining near lower margin. Tear
neatly repaired with no loss of printed surface. $3,500.
Seligman’s chart appeared in the rare
1755 German edition of Catesby’s natural
history of the Southeast, the earliest such
illustrated work on the region. The map is
a new engraving of his 1731 English edition and has a different cartouche and
minor changes. The map is derived in
large part from the great Popple map of
1733, but it also utilizes the Barnwell map
of 1722, and Cumming points out that
many of the details from the Barnwell
map are not found on other printed maps.
ref: Cumming, 292.
SELIGMAN’S SOUTHEAST
TWO IMPORTANT MAPS BY VAUGONDY, 1755
38. (VIRGINIA / MARYLAND / DELAWARE) VAUGONDY /
JOSHUA FRY / PETER JEFFERSON, Carte de la Virginie et du
Maryland... 1755, 1755.
THE FRY/JEFFERSON
MAP OF VIRGINIA
19” x 25 1/4”. First edition. Original outline color. Light foxing in margins. Otherwise excellent. $2,400.
Vaugondy’s map is a reduced French
version of the famous Fry-Jefferson
map, which is considered the most
important 18th century map of Virginia.
The Fry-Jefferson was the first map to
delineate the interior regions of Virginia
beyond the tidewater. It was also the
first printed map to show the parallel
ridges and valleys of the Appalachian
Mountain range in the correct direction,
and to show the complete Virginia river
system. The land was personally surveyed by Joshua Fry and Peter
Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson).
French mapmaker Robert Vaugondy
was the first to reduce the Fry-Jefferson
from its original large format (almost
three by four feet), doing so before the
second edition of the original map had
a chance to be issued. The first English
edition (1751) of the Fry-Jefferson is
almost unobtainable, making this first French edition the earliest available
to the collector. ref: cf. Cumming 281.
39. (NORTHEAST / CANADA / NEW ENGLAND / GREAT LAKES) VAUGONDY,
Partie de l'Amerique Septent? qui comprend
La Nouvelle France..., 1755.
18 3/4” x 23 3/4”. Original outline color.
Light browning in centerfold, otherwise very
good condition. $1,500.
First state. 1755 was one of the most significant years in the history of mapmaking.
John Mitchell’s and Lewis Evans’ maps were
both published that year along with scores of
English and French works which made territorial claims for their countries. Vaugondy’s
L’Amerique Septent... was one of these important maps produced just prior to the French
and Indian War. The large inset map of the
Great Lakes provides one of the best delineations of the region of the time and is one of
the earliest to use the present names of all five
lakes. ref: Karpinsky, pp.142-143, plate
XVIII; Kershaw II, #354.
ONE OF THE BEST DELINEATIONS
OF THE GREAT LAKES
PLAN OF NEW ORLEANS IN FULL ORIGINAL COLOR
40. (NEW ORLEANS) TIRION, ISAAK,
Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de
Hoofdstad van Louisiana (with inset maps: De
Uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi and De
Oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi..., c.1765.
13” x 17 1/2”. Full original color. Good margins. Excellent condition. $850.
New Orleans was established along the east
bank of the lower Mississippi in 1718 by
Captain Celaron de Bienville, and the fort was
then laid out and built up by Le Blond de la
Tour and Adrien Pauger in 1722. Based on the
original surveys and plans done by de la Tour
in 1720, this map of New Orleans is actually a
Dutch copy of a plan published by Bellin in
1764 -- more than forty years after the city
was founded. But surprisingly, the map was
not as out of date as one would expect.
Bienville believed in the extravagant claims of
the prosperity of Louisiana by such financial promoters in Europe as John Law (Compagnie de l’Occident) and even though
New Orleans became a favorite settlement of the French, as late as 1797 not all the land within the boundaries laid down
by Bienville and de la Tour had been built up. ref: John Goss, The Mapping of North America, 63, pp. 138-139.
THOMAS JEFFERYS’ LARGE SCALE CHART OF FLORIDA
41. (FLORIDA / BAHAMAS / GULF OF MEXICO / COAST OF LOUISIANA)
JEFFERYS, THOMAS, The
Coast of West Florida and Louisiana... The Peninsula and Gulf of Florida or Channel of Bahama with the Bahama
Islands..., London: Rob’t Sayer, 20 Feby... 1775.
19 1/4” x 48 1/4”. First edition, first state. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $2,900.
This chart by Thomas Jefferys was the standard sailing chart for Florida and the Bahamas during the fourth quarter of
the eighteenth century. Drawn on a large scale (more than four feet across) the chart is finely engraved and includes detailed
coastal information, soundings, historical notes, and a large compass rose. Jeffreys was an English mapmaker, engraver,
and publisher who is known for giving more attention to the American colonies than any other British cartographer of his
day. He published many important maps and a number of atlases relating to America. His North American Pilot, consisting of thirty-four charts from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico successfully replaced The English Pilot: The Fourth
Book as the standard English aid to navigation in North America. ref: Tooley, pp. 65-66; Seller & Van Ee 1608.
SAYER & BENNETT’S
CHART OF NEW YORK
42. (HUDSON RIVER / SANDY HOOK / NEW
YORK) SAYER & BENNETT, Chart of the
Entrance of Hudson’s River, from Sandy Hook to
New York..., 1776.
27 1/2” x 20 1/2”. Good margins. Light overall
browning. Very good. $3,500.
Rare first state. This chart by English publishers Sayer and Bennett shows the New York
area from south of Sandy Hook to Hell’s Gate at
the north end of Manhattan. Extending as far east
as Jamaica Bay and as far west as Amboy and the
entrance to the Rariton River, the chart makes
note of numerous banks and soundings throughout the area. ref: Phillips, Atlases, 1209.
FIRST STATE OF FADEN’S
PLAN OF NEW YORK ISLAND
43. (NEW YORK / LONG ISLAND / REVOLUTIONARY WAR) FADEN, WILLIAM / JEFFERYS, THOMAS, A Plan of New York Island, with Part
of Long Island, Staten Island & East New Jersey, with
a particular description of the Engagement on the
Woody Heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and
Brooklyn, on the 27th of August 1776..., 1776.
20” x 17 1/2”. First edition, no text on bottom.
Original spot color. Fold repaired with no loss.
Otherwise a fine example. $7,500.
First state of a highly important battle plan which
was published in five states, each successively updating the progress of a campaign with far reaching consequences.
The map depicts events through
September 15, 1776, when General Howe’s troops
made a successful landing in Manhattan while
American troops under Washington retreated. The
British would occupy Manhattan throughout the
Revolutionary War.
ref: Stevens & Tree 41;
Nebenzahl, Bibliography, 107; Atlas of the American
Revolution, 12.
FIRST ISSUE OF FADEN’S PHILADELPHIA
44. (PHILADELPHIA/REVOLUTIONARY WAR)
FADEN/SCULL & HEAP, Plan of the City and
Environs of Philadelphia. Survey’d by N. Scull and G.
Heap. Engraved by Willm. Faden. 1777, 1777.
24 1/2” x 18”. Strong impression. Good margins. Two
tears in margin repaired not affecting printed surface.
$9,500.
First Issue. At the outbreak of the Revolution, the
only map of Philadelphia available was the famous
1752 Scull and Heap survey, which was then almost 25
years old. In March 1777, six months before
Philadelphia came into the military campaigns, William
Faden of London issued a re-engraving of Scull &
Heap’s landmark map, being careful to give credit to
the pioneering American mapmakers. Faden updated
the Philadelphia environs with a few prominent alterations, including information regarding the defensive
posts along the strategic Delaware River. He also
moved the view of Independence Hall from the top of
the map to the bottom. By continuing the use of this
image on his map he helped perpetuate the Statehouse
as one of the most potent symbols of the American
Revolution. The original 1752 Scull and Heap map is
known in only four copies, making this first edition of
Faden’s map one of the earliest and best maps of
Philadelphia available to the collector. ref: Nebenzahl
130; Snyder 47, first state; Nebenzahl, Atlas, p. 118.
BLASKOWITZ’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR PLAN OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
45. (NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND/REVOLUTIONARY
WAR) BLASKOWITZ/FADEN, A Plan of the Town of
Newport in Rhode Island. Surveyed by Charles
Blaskowitz, 1777.
13 1/4” x 14 1/2”. Wide margins. Excellent condition.
$3,500.
This detailed chart of the port of Newport, Rhode
Island was executed by Charles Blaskowitz, “one of the
ablest military surveyors for the British Army during the
Revolution” -- Cumming. Published in 1777 by William
Faden, it is the best obtainable eighteenth century map of
the city and marks the first appearance of a well-detailed
city plan of military information relating to the
Revolution. The streets are named, all buildings are delineated, and there is a legend listing 19 structures keyed to
the plan, including a “Battery raised by the Americans” in
revolt. ref: Nebenzahl #35; Cumming, British Maps of
Colonial America, #26.
SAUTHIER/LOTTER NEW YORK
46. (NORTHEAST) SAUTHIER, C. J./LOTTER, M. A., A Map of the Provinces of New York
and New Yersey..., 1777.
15” x 22 1/4”. Full original color. Excellent condition. Two separate sheets, as issued. $1,900.
In 1776 Claude Joseph Sauthier’s large-scale,
landmark map of New York and its environs was
published in London. It was the last and most
detailed printed map of any large part of North
America published before the Revolution and
would provide the British with an excellent delineation of the Hudson Valley and Lake Champlain - areas that would be of crucial interest at the beginning of the war. This 1777 edition of Sauthier’s
map was re-engraved in a reduced format by
Mathias Albrecht Lotter, a German engraver and
publisher (son of Tobias Conrad Lotter) who
issued a number of English maps relating to the
Americas during the Revolution.
47. (SOUTH CAROLINA / GEORGIA)
ANDREW HUGHES [W. MOUNT & T. PAGE],
A Draught of South Carolina and Georgia from
Sewee to St. Estaca by Andrew Hughes, c.1778.
18” x 32 1/2”. Later hand color. Left hand top margin replaced with some loss to the clean mark.
Good condition. $4,500.
RARE CHART OF THE
GEORGIA/CAROLINA COAST
This handsome chart of South Carolina and
Georgia, oriented with north to the left, covers the
Atlantic Coast from the Santee River to northern
Florida. Many islands are named, including the
Sea Islands, and the towns of St. Augustine,
Savannah,
and
Charleston
are
shown. Although
it was a great cart o g r a p h i c
improvement over
the
previous
Large Draught of
South Carolina,
the chart is rare as
it appeared only in
a few editions of
The English Pilot:
The Fourth Book.
ref: Verner #61;
Seller & Van Ee
#1399.
48. (NOVA SCOTIA /
LOUISBOURG / CAPE
BRETON) DES BARRES,
JFW, A Chart of the
Harbour of Louisbourg in the
Island of Cape Breton, 1781.
20 1/4” x 29 1/2”. Original
outline color. Strengthened
with museum paper. Light
browning in upper right hand
corner. A reasonably good
example. $950.
Joseph Frederick Wallet
Des Barres created one of the
most comprehensive and upto-date works on the Atlantic
coast ever published, the
Atlantic Neptune. This monumental work has been
described as "the most splendid collection of charts,
plans, and views, ever published" -- Obadiah Rich, Bibliotheca Americana Nova. All of the Neptune views are "characterized by crispness and correctness," and "are remarkable in their delicate sketchiness” -- Deak, Picturing America. Des Barres began his extensive survey of
the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia and worked his way south until he was called back to England during the American Revolution.
The appearance of his detailed and accurate guide was invaluable to sailors, who had often been relying on out of date and inaccurate maps to navigate the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic. This map of Fort Louisburg and its surroundings is typical of Des Barres’ excellence and locates the disposition of troops and fortifications during the French and Indian War as well
as giving extensive topographical information. Not in Seller & Van Ee.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR MAP OF SAINT LUCIA
49. (ST. LUCIA/REVOLUTIONARY WAR)
FADEN, Sketch of Part of the Island of Ste. Lucie,
1781.
15” x 19”. Very large margins. Excellent condition.
$675.
The battle for the French naval base on the island
of St. Lucia was “the first major battle in the West
Indies” of the American Revolution. A well timed
attack led by Admiral Barrington on 12 December
1778 secured the port for the English allowing them
to hold St. Lucia throughout the war. The island was
a valuable commodity for the British because of its
proximity to the French stronghold of Martinique. A
number of notable battles between the French and
English took place in the Caribbean, where
European interests in the rich island colonies were as
much in question as the fate of the mainland. This
highly detailed map is a later varient which includes
a letterpress account of the battle extracted from
General Grant’s letter of 31 December 1778. There
is extensive topographical and military information
on the map, including the location of all land and sea
forces and the names of each of the ships in
Barrington’s victorious fleet. ref: Nebenzahl,
Bibliography, #150 (later state); Atlas of The
American Revolution, p. 152.
50. (NORTH AMERICA/REVOLUTIONARY WAR) BRION DE LA TOUR,
L’Amerique Septentrionale, ou se remarquent
Les Etats Unis... Paris, 1783.
19 3/4” x 28 3/4". Original outline color.
Some light water-staining in ocean. One tear
repaired with no loss of printed surface.
$1,900.
51. (PENNSYLVANIA / DELAWARE RIVER /
REVOLUTIONARY WAR) FADEN, The Course
of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester
with the several forts... (with inset map: A Plan of
Fort Mifflin on Mud Island), 1785.
When France entered the Revolution-ary
War, Nicolas Brion de la Tour, the Royal
Geographer, began making maps of America
to inform the French of their distant battles.
During the last years of the 1770s, he issued
maps of the colonies and the theatre of war
based on English models.
L’Amerique
Septentrionale was first published in 1779.
This second issue appeared the year of the
Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the war and
includes the addition of numerous place names
and the routes of Cook’s exploration of the
Pacific Northwest coast. ref: Seller & Van Ee; Library of Congress,
Maps and Charts of North America, #167.
FADEN’S DELAWARE RIVER
17 1/4” x 26 1/4”. Large margins. Excellent condition. $3,500.
This beautifully engraved chart of the
Delaware River below Philadelphia gives an indication of the protective strongholds erected for
the defense of Philadelphia. The Delaware was a
strategic waterway, and even after victories at
Brandywine and Germantown, the British occupation of Philadelphia was not considered secure
until they could gain control of the river. In a bitterly contested and costly series of battles, they
eventually drove the Americans out of their positions at Billingsport, Fort Mifflin on Mud Island,
and Fort Mercer at Red Bank. This 1785 edition
of the map was published after the war from the
original copperplate, and Faden has changed the
word “Rebels” to “Americans” in each place it
appears on the map. Nebenzahl notes that this
was “characteristic of the post-1783 British maps
published by positive thinking map sellers”. ref:
Nebenzahl, Bibliography, #132, state 3; Stevens
& Tree 17a; Nebenzahl, Atlas, p. 26.
52. (NEW HAVEN) DOOLITTLE, AMOS, Plan of New Haven..., 1824.
[pictured on following page]
28” x 36 1/4”. Laid down on Japanese paper. Some damage to margins not
effecting printed surface. Generally very good condition for a rare map.
$15,000.
The third and last issue of Doolittle’s map of New Haven, which was
first published in 1812 and again in 1817. All issues of the map are rare,
with only a few copies of each known. The row of buildings which mark Yale college have grown a little longer and the
placing of the churches on the common is slightly altered from previous editions. “Care has been taken, not only to exhibit the proportions of each building, but likewise the exact number of its doors & windows” -- The Records of the State of
Connecticut, vol IX, p. 127. Amos Doolittle was one of the most famous and prolific early American engravers. He marched
under Capt. Benedict Arnold to Cambridge at the start of the American Revolution, and after the war created a number of
important pieces of Americana, including his famous “Display of the United States of America”. ref: Thompson, Maps of
Connecticut, vol II, pp. 39 and 49, #66.
RARE DOOLITTLE PLAN
OF NEW HAVEN
[described on previous page]
FIRST CHART PUBLISHED BY
THE U.S. COAST SURVEY
53. (NEW YORK BAY) HASSLER, FERDINAND RUDOLPH, Map of New York Bay and Harbor, 1845.
24 1/4” x 35 1/2”. Excellent condition. $1,900.
First edition of the single sheet version of the first official coast chart published by the United States Coast Survey. Ferdinand
Rudolph Hassler, a Swiss mathematician, was appointed the nation’s first superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey by Thomas
Jefferson in 1807. The project he envisioned was enormous -- to precisely survey the entire Atlantic Coast from Maine to Georgia.
It was the most ambitious effort at a large-scale precise mapping ever attempted. From the project’s inception in 1807, thirtyseven troublesome years would pass before the first map appeared. Hassler found himself trapped in England by the War of 1812
while supervising the construction of the surveying equipment, then was fired from the project completely when an Act of
Congress was passed which limited employment in the U.S. Coast Survey to Naval and Military officers. The project floundered
for fourteen years until Hassler was finally recalled to service, and the map was completed in 1843. After decades of intermittent labor, the map’s publication in 1844 was considered a milestone. Not only was it the most detailed and accurate American
map of its kind ever to appear, the
hydrography revealed for the first
time “... a previously undiscovered deep water entry to the lower
bay. It had been discovered by
careful, systematic sounding and
plotting” -- Guthorn. Hassler
received many accolades for his
valuable
discovery,
which
allowed ships to enter the harbor
at any state of tide and with any
wind. Unfortunately Hassler
himself died in 1843, one year
before his landmark work was
published. ref: Guthorn pg. 72;
America Emergent, p. 60; Cohen /
Augustyn, Manhattan In Maps,
pp. 122-123.
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54. (WORLD) SCHEDEL, HARTMANN, Das
ander alter der werlt, 1493.
W
O R L D
ONE OF THE EARLIEST
OBTAINABLE WORLD MAPS
15” x 20 1/4”. Some light wash color. Sewing holes at
centerfold strengthened as usual. Otherwise excellent.
$12,500.
Published just 40 years after the invention of printing, the Schedel map presents the world as seen just
prior to Columbus' voyage and the rounding of the
Cape of Good Hope. As such, it is one of the great
bridges in cartographic history, displaying the intersection of the theologic and legend-based Medieval
world view with the emerging scientific orientation of
the Renaissance. The general contours of the map primarily show the influence of the most important geographical work of antiquity, Ptolemy's Geographia,
which had been forgotten during the Middle Ages.
Many medieval notions are nevertheless incorporated:
the Indian Ocean is shown in its land-locked, pre-discovery state, for example. The most medieval aspect
is its ornamentation: the seven grotesque figures on
the left-hand side were thought to inhabit the unknown
parts of the world, especially the so-called kingdoms
of Gog and Magog in northern Asia. Fourteen similarly bizarre creatures are depicted on the verso of the
map. The figures surrounding the map underscore the
confluence of Medieval and Renaissance elements.
The twelve angels representing the winds would
become a decorative motif appearing on Renaissance
world maps of the first half of the 16th century.
However, the inclusion of cuts of Japhet, Shem, and
Ham (the sons of Noah who re-populated the earth
after the Flood) clearly refer to the theology-centered
Medieval view of the world. In addition to its historical importance, the Schedel world map is a striking
example of woodcut engraving. Its bold, thick lines
are in the style of Albrecht Durer who contributed
woodcuts to the Nuremberg Chronicle, where the map
appeared. The Schedel world map is both an historic
and aesthetic document of the greatest significance.
ref: Shirley 19; Brown, The World Encompassed, #44,
XII
A CLASSIC DUTCH WORLD MAP
55. (WORLD) MERCATOR, RUMOLD, Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Vniuersali... (Duisberg),
1587/1595/1602.
14” x 20 1/2”. Full original color. Excellent example. $7,500.
Gerard Mercator’s great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. Shirley calls
the engraving “a model of clarity and neatness”. First appearing in 1587, the map has a long and complex history. It was originally published in Isaac Casaubon’s edition of Strabo’s Geographia and later appeared in at least two editions of Mercator’s atlas.
Before Gerard Mercator’s death the map may have also been separately issued, as well as being printed at Duisberg in the third and
final part of Mercator’s Atlas. Then in 1595, after the death of his father, Rumold reissued the entire atlas as one work. This example was printed at Duisberg by Mercator’s heirs in 1602 before the plates were sold to Jodocus Hondius, who continued publication
of the map through the early 1630s. ref: Shirley 157; Koeman Me 12.
56. (WORLD) JODOCUS HONDIUS / JEAN LE
CLERC / GERARD MERCATOR, Orbis Terrae
Novissima Descriptio, 1602.
RARE 1602 LE CLERC EDITION OF THE
MERCATOR/HONDIUS WORLD MAP
13” x 20”. Centerfold strengthened. Otherwise excellent.
$5,500.
Separately published first edition with original date.
This double hemisphere world map was engraved by
Jodocus Hondius for Parisian publisher Jean Le Clerc.
The map is based on Mercator’s famous world map of
1587, although Hondius has used his considerable artistic skill to provide a novel and distinctive decorative border for the central map. He has also included the
“Islands of Queen Elizabeth” off the tip of South
America, and notes that Nova Albion on the far west
coast of North America was so named by the English in
1580. He has also erased the coastline between South
America and New Guinea. Le Clerc’s maps were issued
separately, although they were occassionally found in
Mercator/Hondius atlases of the time. Le Clerc himself
did not produce an atlas until 1619. Shirley classifies the map as scarce, noting that “copies with the
original date of 1602 are rare.” ref: Shirley 233.
“ONE OF THE SUPREME
EXAMPLES OF THE
MAPMAKER’S ART”
57. (WORLD) BLAEU, Novus Totius
Terrarum
Orbis
Geographica...,
1606/c.1630.
16” x 21 1/2”. Right and left margins extended, with no loss of printed surface. Original
color. Excellent condition. $12,500.
Rodney Shirley calls this famous world
map by Willem J. Blaeu “one of the supreme
examples of the mapmaker’s art.” Drawn on
the Mercator Projection, the map is a reduction of Blaeu’s large world map of 1605.
This single sheet version was magnificently
engraved by Josua van den Ende. An
exceedingly successful map, it remained in
publication for over fifty years and is today
probably the most sought after seventeenth
century Dutch world map. The superb border decorations which surround the map include classical representations of the sun, moon, and five known planets along the top, while the
bottom shows vignettes of the seven classical wonders of the world. The
two side panels represent the four seasons and four elements. Willem
Blaeu was the founder of one of the most powerful cartographic houses
in Amsterdam, a firm which would dominate mapmaking for the greater
part of the seventeenth century. Blaeu’s monumnetal work would be an
eleven volume atlas which was unsurpassed for beauty, scope, and relative accuracy. ref: Shirley #255.
SEPARATELY PUBLISHED MAP BY TAVERNIER
58. (WORLD) TAVERNIER, Nova Totius
Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac
Hydrographica Tabula... Paris, 1643.
14 3/4” x 20 1/2”. Original strong outline
color. Excellent example. $7,500.
Separately published. The French mapmaker Melchior Tavernier the elder was
engraver and printer to the king, as well as
a map dealer and publisher who cooperated on projects with the great cartography
houses of Jansson, Hondius, Danckerts,
Tassin, and Bertius. This scarce world
map replaced an earlier engraving after
Jodocus Hondius. Both the northwest and
northeast coastlines of North America have
been revised, but there is no mention of
any part of Australia. The map’s surround
consists of animal representations of the
elements, celestial circles, and two large
banners at the top and bottom setting out
the equivalents of degrees in French and
German miles. ref: Shirley 360; Tooley,
Dictionary of Mapmakers, p. 611.
UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF A SCARCE WORLD MAP
59. (WORLD) DU VAL, PIERRE/LAGNET, Le Planisphere Avtrement La Carte Dv Monde Terrestre, 1659.
16” x 31 3/4”. Original outline color. Excellent example. $7,500.
Separately published. A unique example of a scarce world map. It is dated 1659, a year earlier than the earliest edition
cited by Shirley. There are two legends of interest relating to America on the map, representing current geographical opinion concerning the Pacific Northwest and the much debated Northwest Passage. The first is the immense Terre de Iesso,
an overblown and detached Alaska which was supposedly discovered by De Vries in 1643 and was “separated from Asia
and America by large straits or expanses of sea.” The second is placed between the strait of Anian, here immediately north
of the island of California, and New Denmark bordering on Button’s Bay and proposes a Northwest Passage -- “It is said
that this strait communicates between the two seas North and South.” Pierre Du Val was nephew and pupil to Nicolas
Sanson, and this is his first full size world map. ref: cf. Shirley #420 (1660 edition).
60. (WORLD) DE WIT, Nova Orbis
Tabvla in Lvcem Edita. A.F. De Wit...,
c.1680/c.1688.
DE WIT MAP IN STUNNING FULL ORIGINAL COLOR
18 3/4” x 22 1/4”. Stunning full original color. Three small breaks on
paper strengthened on verso with no
loss of printed surface. $8,500.
In about 1680 De Wit prepared a
new world map plate, updating his
terrestrial world plate issued in about
1670. It can be distinguished from
the first plate by the appearance of
Nova Guinea and Quiri Regio on the
Western Hemisphere, and by a pointed tip instead of a flat top on the
island of California. There is also
some definition to the great lakes as
opposed to the single open ended
inland sea shown previously. The
colorful tableaux surrounding the
hemispheres are virtually identical to
those on the first plate. This example
also bears the privilege Amstelodami
cum Privilegio Potentiss D.
Dominorum Ordinum Hollandiae et
Westfrisiae below the title which was
granted to de Wit in 1688. ref: Shirley
499.
DECORATIVE WORLD
MAP BY VALCK
61. (WORLD) VALCK, MappeMonde Geo-Hydrographique ou
Description Generale du Globe
Terrestre et Aquatique..., c.1686.
18 3/4” x 23”. Original color.
Excellent condition. $6,500.
Valck’s Mappe Monde was probably
copied from Jaillot’s influential
world map of 1674, but in contrast to
the plain corners of Jaillot’s map,
Valck has engraved four striking
baroque scenes as a surround. These,
representing joyous spring, industrious summer, bucolic autumn and icy
winter are accompanied by north and
south polar circles. ref: Shirley
#531.
TWO WORLD MAPS BY JAILLOT
62. (WORLD) JAILLOT, ALEXIS-HUBERT/SANSON, Mappe-monde=Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description
Generale du Globe, 1674/c.1696.
21” x 35 1/2”. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $3,750.
Redrawn on an enlarged scale from the Sanson original, Jaillot's impressive double hemisphere world map
shows California as an island and a Northwest Passage clearly suggested through Button's Bay. Shirley notes
that “the two hemispheres are drawn on an enlarged scale, engraved with distinction, and usually printed on high
quality paper." The map was initially published separately and later encorporated in Jaillot’s Atlas Nouveau.
A reduced version of this map was engraved in 1695 (see next item). ref: Shirley 462, plate 4, state 3.
63. (WORLD) JAILLOT, ALEXISHUBERT / SANSON, MappeMonde Geo-Hydrographique ou
Description Generale Du Globe,
1695/c.1706.
17 3/4” x 25 1/4”. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $1,900.
Produced for Jaillot’s Atlas
Francois in 1695, this map is a
reduced version of his oversize world
map of 1674 (see previous item).
Both were reworkings of the Sanson
map which Jaillot acquired from
Sanson’s heirs in 1670. Both show
California as an island and clearly
indicate a Northwest Passage
through Button’s Bay. For this
reduced version Jaillot has changed
the pieces of decoration in the center
of the map, but left the geography
untouched. ref: Shirley 569.
64. (WORLD/PAIR OF POLAR PROJECTIONS) DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME, Hemisphere Septentrional pour
voir plus distinctement Les Terres Arctiques... [and] Hemisphere Meridional pour voir plus distinctement Les
Terres Australes..., 1714.
18” x 18”. Full original color. Excellent condition. $2,500 the pair.
A pair of polar projections by master French cartographer Guillaume de L’Isle. The north polar projection is
the first map to place correctly the westward extention of North America and thus California by moving it east
substantially from previous mapping. De L’Isle is also unambiguous about the peninsular character of California,
unlike on his map of North America where he delineated California as an Island. De L’Isle used information from
the Pacific voyage of Fondant in 1709 (traced on the Buache/De L’Isle map of 1750). ref: Wagner 504; cf.
Portraits of the World, 53a & 53b.
65. (WORLD) EVANS, JOHN, A New Map, of the World. with all the New Discoveries. By Capt. Cook and other
Navigators Ornamented with the Solar System the Eclipses of the Sun Moon & Planets &c. by T. Kitchen Geographer.
London, 1799.
22” x 41”. Early hand color, excellent condition, large margins untrimmed. $16,000.
Unrecorded, double hemisphere wall map of the world. This map is particularly attractive because of the vignettes
around the border depicting various activities in the solar system. An article on John Evans appeared in The Map
Collector 46 (Spring 1989) and listed his known works. No world map is listed there and this map is not in the British
Library Catalogue, NYPL Catalog, OCLC or any other list we consulted.