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 HONDIUS, Henricus (1597-1651)
America Septentrionalis
Amsterdam: Jansson, [1641]. Copper-engraved map, full period hand-colouring. Sheet size: 22 5/8 x 25 inches.
Hondius' important map of North America, here with glorious full period hand colouring.
"Henricus Hondius' beautifully engraved map of North America had greater influence than any other to date in perpetuating the theory of California as an island ... Cartographically, this map is a careful composition of many different sources and illustrates well the current state of knowledge" (Burden).
The mapping of the East coast of America is striking given the early date of the map. Fort Orange, the primary trading post on the Hudson (North River then), later to be Albany, is located. Further south, from the Chesapeake through the Gulf the map shows the benefits of the work of de Laet and Hessel Gerritz. In the north, the greatly mis-located Hudson's Bay includes recent discoveries by Thomas James, who explored the west coast of the Bay, in search of a westward passage in 1633.
Henricus Hondius was the son of the engraver and mapmaker Jodocus Hondius. Henricus continued the family's cartographical business in partnership with Jan Jansson, his brother-in-law. Mapmaking was more often than not a family enterprise in Amsterdam and in Paris in the 17th century. The firm was active under one family member or another for nearly the entire 17th century. This was the period of Dutch supremacy at sea, when, having supplanted the Portuguese in India, central Africa and northeastern Brazil, the Dutch were the prime carriers of spices, silks, furs, tobacco, sugar and slaves. It was not in the nature of things that this predominance could last very long, if only because the Netherlands is a very small country. But until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 1660s and 70s, the Dutch were supreme, and the making of maps was a form of nationalistic journalism.
First issued in 1636, the map appeared unchanged in various editions of the Hondius/Jansson atlas throughout much of the century. This copy an example of Burden's second state, with Jansson's imprint added.
"Jansson was an extremely influential publisher and this depiction of the continent indicated the best that was known, as well as the great amount that remained unknown" (Martin & Martin).
Burden, The Mapping of North America I: 245 (state 2); McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 6; Goss, The Mapping of North America 30; McCorkle, America Emergent 13; Tooley, "California as an Island," 311 in Tooley, The Mapping of America; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America 330, Lowery 128; Martin & Martin, Mapping of Texas and the Southwest, p. 79, plate 8.
#25656 $4,850.00  
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 HONDIUS, Henricus (1597-1651]
Nova Virginiae Tabula
Amsterdam: Henry Hondius, [No date but 1633]. Engraving with hand-colouring. French text. Some minor browning and toning. Skilful repairs to left and right margins. Plate mark: 15 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 22 1/8 inches.
"The first and most important derivative of John Smith's map of Virginia, originally published in 1612" (Burden)
This is derivative 5, state 1, bearing the imprint of Henricus Hondius. Originally issued by Jodocus Hondius from 1618-1629, the map closely follows State 1 of Smith's Virginia of 1612, without longitude and the various names added in Smith's later states. Upon Hondius's death in 1629, Blaeu purchased the plates and the imprint was thereafter changed to reflect the new ownership. Blaeu used the map first in his Atlantic Appendix (1630) and afterwards in virtually every edition of his atlas. This example was issued with Mercator's L'Appendice de l'Atlas, Amsterdam, 1633.
"Through the purchase of this plate by William Jansz. Blaeu in 1629 and its subsequent extensive publication for forty-two years, word of the English in Virginia became known throughout Europe. It is slightly larger than its parent, although more attractively engraved. Taken from the first state of Smith, it continues the coastlines where the former left them vague." (Burden 193)
The map includes the council scene of Chief Powhatan in the upper left and the British Royal Coat of Arms in the upper right. The British were the first to establish a successful colony on the North American coast in defiance of the Spanish, who felt legally entitled to it, and this represents the moment when English speaking people began to prevail in America.
Burden 193; Koeman I:71-5; Verner p. 166
#20861$3,750.00
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 HONDIUS, Henricus (1597-1651)
Nova Virginiae Tabula
Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, [No date but 1633]. Copper engraving, French text on verso. Good condition, with small expert marginal repairs, thinning of paper to small areas at the upper left and right of the verso . Sheet size: 14 5/8 x 22 inches.
A classic, early cartographic representation of Virginia: Hondius's version of John Smith's important map.
This is the fifth of the many derivatives of Captain John Smith's map of Virginia, the earliest true map of the first permanent English colony in America. This map stays close in content to the Hondius-Blaeu map of 1629, which was in turn based on the first state of the Smith map. The early Dutch versions of the map were the primary disseminators of information on Virginia throughout the European continent until the closing decades of the seventeenth century.
The map is beautifully ornamented with the Royal Arms of Britain (colonial rulers of Virginia) , a standing figure of an Indian, and an inset vignette of "King Powhatan," the father of Pocahantas, sitting in state in his lodge. Powhatan was the powerful ruler of about thirty Algonquian tribes in the region, the strongest single group of Indians on the Atlantic coast. He is said to have had forty bodyguards and 100 wives. His rulership consisted of his providing military leadership and protection in exchange for tribute from the individual tribes. The ceremony at which Captain John Smith thought he was saved by Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas was apparently a ritual in which Smith agreed on behalf of his tribe, the whites, to submit to Powhatan's leadership. Smith, of course, completely misunderstood the event.
This copy of the map, with French text on verso, is an early issue of Burden's first state. Verner notes: "This is a beautifully engraved and decorative map."
Burden, The Mapping of North America 228, state 1; Koeman, Atlantes Neelandici Me 31 A #72; Taylor, American Colonies, p. 125-132; Verner, 165-166.
#24788$2,250.00
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 HONDIUS, Jodocus, Jr. (1594-1629) and Henricus (1597-1651)
America Noviter Delineata
Amsterdam: Henrico Hondius, 1631 [but 1633]. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, German text on verso (centerfold reinforced, in very good condition). Sheet size: 18 x 21 1/8 inches.
The celebrated Hondius map of the Americas, in the third state.
Originally issued by Jodicus Hondius Jr. in 1618, this map of the Americas was modified by Henricus Hondius following his brother's death. The original map was based on Jodicus Hondius the elder's map of 1606, along with the Willem Blaeu maps of 1608 and 1617. The map would form Europe's geographical understanding of North and South America for the first half of the 17th century.
Several major corrections have been made compared to the 1606 Hondius map. The St. Lawrence Bay and River are much improved, and at the opposite end, Tierra del Fuego has been separated, however nebulously, from the great Terra Incognita, thought (correctly) to exist since ancient times. The rather assertive outgrowth of Virginia in the 1606 map has been modified to reflect more accurately the eastward swelling at North Carolina. Interestingly, Henricus Hondius' next map of North America (1636) adopted the increasingly popular notion that California was an island, and greatly advanced that belief.
The map includes inset maps of the North and South Poles. The nicely drawn ships and sea monsters add to the pleasant aesthetic effect of the map.
Burden, The Mapping of North America I, 192
#6999$3,500.00
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 HONDIUS, Jodocus, Jr. (1594-1629) and Henricus (1597-1651)
America Noviter Delineata
Amsterdam: Jansson, 1652. Copper-engraved map, with period hand-colouring in outline. Insets of each polar region, both oceans embellished with ships and sea monsters. French text on verso. Sheet size: 17 5/8 x 23 1/8 inches.
The celebrated Hondius map of the Americas.
Originally issued by Jodocus Hondius Jr. in 1618, this map of the Americas was modified by Henricus Hondius following his brother's death. The original map was based on Jodocus Hondius the elder's map of 1606, along with the Willem Blaeu maps of 1608 and 1617. The map would form Europe's geographical understanding of North and South America for the first half of the 17th century.
Several major corrections have been made compared to the 1606 Hondius map. The St. Lawrence Bay and River are much improved, and at the opposite end, Tierra del Fuego has been separated, however nebulously, from the great Terra Incognita, thought (correctly) to exist since ancient times. The rather assertive outgrowth of Virginia in the 1606 map has been modified to reflect more accurately the eastward swelling at North Carolina. Interestingly, Henricus Hondius' next map of North America (1636) adopted the increasingly popular notion that California was an island, and greatly advanced that belief.
The present copy an example of Burden's fifth state, without the border found only on the first state of 1618, with Jansson's imprint at the lower right, and with the date and Hondius imprint removed from the cartouche.
Burden, The Mapping of North America I: 192
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 HOPKINS, G. H
Clark & Tackaburys New Topographical Map of the State of Connecticut. Compiled from New and Accurate Surveys of each County, and the United States Trigonometrical Surveys of Long Island Sound.
Philadelphia: Clark & Tackabury, 1860. Copper-engraved wall map, with full original colour, expertly repaired, backed with new linen, trimmed in blue cloth, on contemporary rollers, in very good condition. Sheet size: 53 x 68½ inches.
A very fine wall map of the state of Connecticut, based on the latest surveys
During the 1850s, Richard Clark published a large number of wall maps based on actual survey of Connecticut towns and counties. Many of those had been the work of the distinguished Philadelphia surveyor, G. H. Hopkins, who was responsible for this accomplished general map. Each township in the state is individually coloured, and many schools, churches, cemeteries, post offices, stores, mines, mills, factories, iron works, etc., are located throughout rural Connecticut. Nine inset maps give detailed plans of the cities of Middletown, Waterbury, Stamford, Norwalk, New London, Bridgeport, Hartford, Norwich, and New Haven. A table gives population statistics for Connecticut's eight counties, and for the major towns and cities in each county. Grist mills and sawmills are shown, as are railroads and common roads. The mapping of the Connecticut coastline is especially fine, giving depths for the entire stretch of Long Island Sound, and showing several islands lying off the coast. This map is the second edition, the first having been printed in 1859, and is an excellent detailed look at Connecticut on the eve of the Civil War. Not in Phillips' America.
Rumsey 141; Thompson 181; Ristow, p.388 (ref).
#5639$6,000.00
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HOPKINS, Henry Whitmer (1838-1920, publisher)
Map of City and Island of Montreal
Montreal: Provincial Surveying and Publishing Co., 1879. Lithographed map, on 4 joined sheets, with full original colour. Overall sheet size (when joined): 43 x 56 inches. In good condition, with small expert repairs to the margins.
A rare and very attractive large-scale map of Montreal
This attractive map is really two maps in one: a large scale inset plan of the city of Montreal, and a large scale map of the whole of the island of Montreal with land-owners names and their holdings marked for all the land outside the city itself. According to a sub-title at the foot of the map all information was "Based upon the Cadestral Plans deposited in the Office of the Department of Crown Lands", and could therefore be relied upon as accurate.
This map can probably be seen as a competitor to Johnston and Desbarets large scale maps of the city and island published in 1872 and then updated and re-issued in 1881. Hopkins, a Pennsylvania native, published a number of town and county atlases from about 1870 onwards, mostly of Canadian locations. He seems to have been the older brother of Griffith Morgan Hopkins, who was himself a prolific publisher of large scale maps of the north eastern United States. It is not perhaps too fanciful to suggest that the brothers were between them trying to establish a niche map publishing empire that covered the whole of America!
Not in OCLC; not in TPL.
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 HUNTER, B. J.
Map of Oswego County, New York, from actual surveys under the direction of Samuel Geil ... by B.J. Hunter
Philadelphia: Gillett, Matthews, [copyright date: 1854]. Engraved map, full original hand-colouring, folding in 36 sections, backed onto linen at a contemporary date, edged with green silk ribbon . Sheet size: (51 3/4 x 57 inches).
A fine copy with beautiful colouring of this important large-scale map of Oswego County, New York
Established in 1816, Oswego County occupies 968 square miles of land on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario. The present handsome map was the largest and best of Oswego in the nineteenth century. Each township is individually coloured, with every rural property owner located and identified by name. The map includes fifteen integral town plans (some flanked by listings of local businesses) and eight vignette views. The town plans are for the following: Constantia, Mexico, Sand Bank, Pulaski, Oswego, Cleveland, Washingtonville, Fulton, Central Square, Phoenix, Parish, Scriba, New Haven, Hannibal and Hannibal Centre.
It is interesting to note that although the map is constructed by Hunter from surveys produced by Geil, it was registered for copyright (in 1854) by Robert Pearsall Smith. Beginning in 1853, Pearsall Smith had contracted with a number of local surveyors to construct maps of New York counties: this was evidently one of those maps.
The map is here presented as a case map, sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date, rather than in wall map form, thus preserving the beauty of the original colouring, and without the varnish that tends to be such an unwelcome feature of wall maps of the period.
Ristow American Maps & Mapmakers p.392.; not in Rumsey
#24769$2,250.00
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 HUTCHINS, Thomas (1730-1789)
A New Map of the Western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina; Comprehending the River Ohio, and all the Rivers, which fall into it; Part of the River Mississippi, the Whole of the Illinois River, Lake Erie; Part of the Lakes Huron, Michigan &c. And all the Country bordering on these Lakes and Rivers. By Thos. Hutchins, Captain in the 60 Regiment of Foot
London: Engraved by T. Hutchins, 1778. Copper-engraved map by T. Cheevers, with period outline colour, on four joined sheets, overall measuring 36¼ x 44 inches, a little browning at the joints, but overall a fine copy. Discrete stamp of "Depot de la Marine" at lower right. Docketed on verso: "Nº 128. de la boite/ nº 29."/ "Virginie, Pennsylvanie/ &c./ Par Thos. Hutchins./ 1778. (En Anglais).
[Together with:]
HUTCHINS, Thomas. A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, comprehending the Rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Missisippi, &c. The climate, soil and produce, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; The mountains, creeks, roads, distances, latitudes &c and of every Part, laid down in the annexed map. And an appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy's journal up the Illinois River, and the correct list of the different nations and Tribes of Indians, with the number of fighting men, &c.. London: printed for the author, and sold by J. Almon, 1778. Octavo (8 9/16 x 5 inches). Two copper-engraved folding maps, 1 copper-engraved folding table. (Blank margins of first four and last two text leaves expertly restored, neat repair to fold of engraved table). Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century diced russia over contemporary marbled-paper covered boards, the flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, black morocco lettering-piece in the second.
A highly important work: the first true general map of the American Midwest, and the first meaningful large-scale depiction of the Transappalachian Country. This great map extends from Western New York in the northeast, Cape Fear in the southeast, the Wisconsin River in the northwest, to the Arkansas River in the southwest. Here found with the first edition, second issue, of the separately issued descriptive text, which, in its own right, is one of the most important early geographical descriptions of the West.
Thomas Hutchins was a seminal figure in the surveying and mapping of the United States. He began his career as a topographical engineer for the British Army during the French and Indian War. From 1758 to 1777 he served in the newly acquired Ohio Valley. He designed the fortifications at Fort Pitt in 1763. In the following year, he accompanied Bouquet on his expedition against the western Indians. The result was his "Map of the country on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers," published in Philadelphia in 1765.
Hutchins was a member of the exploring party sent down the Ohio Valley in 1766 to investigate the territory recently acquired from France, and on this occasion conducted "the first accurate map, or more properly, hydrographic survey" of the Ohio River (Brown). Hutchins was stationed at Fort Chartres on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi from 1768 to 1770. Hutchins subsequently went to England, where he compiled this great map from his exhaustive personal surveys, and information gathered from many sources. The depiction of the Ohio immediately below Fort Pitt, for example, seems to be based on a manuscript by John Montresor. Brown notes that its publication in 1778 represented "the culmination of a long career as an engineer and mapmaker in the wilderness of North America."
Hutchins returned to America in 1781, and was appointed by Congress "Geographer to the United States." In 1783, he was a member of the commission that surveyed the Mason-Dixon Line, and in 1785, was appointed by Congress to the commission that surveyed the New York-Massachusetts boundary. Under the Ordinance of 1785, he was placed in charge of the surveying of the public lands in the Northwest Territory. He died in 1789, shortly after completing the survey of the "Seven Ranges" in Ohio. Hutchins is frequently credited with establishing the excellent system under which all of the public lands of the United States were subsequently surveyed and divided into townships, ranges and sections.
Hutchins's 1778 map was the foundation document for the mapping of the Ohio Valley in the late eighteenth century. The depiction of the Transappalachian region on Thomas Jefferson's famous map in his Notes on Virginia (1787), for example, was taken directly from Hutchins. The map shows the western claims of Virginia and North Carolina based upon their 17th century royal charters. It is filled with exhaustive data throughout, with a fascinating series of notes or "legends" interspersed among the geographical details. An "Illinois Country" is shown between the Illinois and Wabash rivers. Among its other important details, Hutchins's map is one of the only printed maps of the period to show the proposed new colony of Vandalia (here "Indiana"), which was projected to occupy a large portion of the present state of West Virginia.
The map was issued with accompanying text but the two are now rarely found together as here. The text is important for its 'Topographical Description' of the areas covered by Hutchins' map, as well as for including details of whose work Hutchins consulted during the drawing up of the map and the text (Captain Brehm for observations 'respecting the lakes', and Lewis Evans for his description of the 'several branches of the Ohio, and Allegany rivers'). The text also includes a valuable engraved 'Table of Distances, between Fort Pitt, and the Mouth of the River Ohio' and two other rare early maps: 'A Plan of the Rapids, in the River Ohio' and 'A Plan of the several Villages in the Illinois Country, with Part of the River Mississippi'.
Map: Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 65/11; Streeter Sale 3, 1300: "by far the best map of the west printed to that time;" Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, p. 36: "The best [colonial] map of the region south of the Great Lakes"; Brown, Early Maps of the Ohio Valley, plate 51. Text: Howes, USiana H846; Sabin, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 34054; Vail, Voice of the Old Frontier, 655.
#3910$150,000.00
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 IMBERT, J. Leopold
Carte des Possessions Angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale Pour Servir d'Intelligence a la Guerre presente
Paris: chez Mondhare, 1777. Copper engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset of Florida and the West Indies. Sheet size: 22 x 30 inches.
First edition of Imbert's rare map of the theatre of war in North America and the basis for one of the most important French mappings of the new United States.
This map was issued in Paris to meet the demand for maps of America at the outbreak of the Revolution. The map depicts the English colonies extending to the Alleghenies, showing a vast Louisiana as far west as the far side of the Mississippi. "Covers the area east of the Mississippi River from James Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Shows states, towns and cities, Indian villages and tribal territory, routes of navigation along the southern coast and relief" (Sellers and Van Ee). A large inset shows Florida south of St. Augustine, as well as the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica. A hachured border line shows the British colonies extending only to the Appalachians. Cartographically, Imbert's map follows the mappings by other French cartographers of the 18th century, including De L'Isle, d'Anville and Brion de la Tour.
Imbert's map would be reissued by Jean-Baptiste Eliot in 1783, that edition being one of the first maps issued following the provisional Treaty of Peace. Eliot's map, which is printed from the same plate as the present map by Imbert, shows the new boundaries of the United States according to that treaty depicted via x's. The Eliot map is otherwise the same as the present map by Imbert, with the notable exception of wording changes to the cartouche; i.e. changing "des Possessions Angloises" to "des Etas Unis" and Eliot removing Imbert's name and substituting his own.
McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 777.9; Seller and Van Ee 153; Lowery 590.
#25737$4,000.00
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