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 KEULEN, Johannes van (1678-1727)
Pas kaart van de Zee kusten van Espianola met de Zee kust van Nuevo Reyne de Granada
Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [1687]. Copper-engraved map, full contemporary hand-colouring, heightened with gold. Sheet size: 20 7/8 x 25 inches.
A very fine copy of this excellent and very early chart of the island of Aruba, the southern coast of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and part of the northern coast of Columbia.
This beautifully-finished map was published by innovative Dutch cartographer and publisher, Johannes van Keulen, in the 1687 second edition of the third volume his Sea-Atlas [or Zee-Fakkel]. The chart includes a fine decorative title vignette, just above which is the island of Aruba, to the left the north coast of Columbia and as far west as Santa Marta. In the right corner is an enlarged detail of the bay of Tiburon (Baya de Tiburaon.) on the southwestern-most tip of Haiti. Along the uppermost margin, the south coast of the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) is shown, with the capital city of Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously occupied city in the Americas, marked at the mouth of the Ozama River.
Cf. Koeman IV, Keu109B
#24940 $1,500.00  
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 KEULEN, Johannes van (1678-1727)
Pas kaart van de Zee kusten van Nieuw Nederland anders genaamt Niew York
Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [1687]. Copper-engraved map, full period hand-colouring, heightened with gold. In excellent condition. Sheet size: 20 7/8 x 25 inches.
A very fine copy of the second state of this spectacular map: the second printed chart of New York, Long Island and southern New England, with a large integral inset which includes the first separate map of the River Hudson
Issued in the fourth part of Van Keulen's Zee-Fakkel, this highly important chart is only pre-dated by Arent Roggeveen's extremely rare Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland of 1675. Based on original Dutch surveys made just before they surrendered New Netherlands to the English in 1664, this map "arguably represents the apogee of Dutch knowledge of the region, many toponyms appearing for the first time... Although the region is named both New Netherlands and New York the city itself is unnamed. Nearby are a great number of placenames including some recognisable ones such as Konynen Eyl., Breukelen and further east on Long Island Heemstede, Ooster Bay and Oost Hampton " (Burden II, p.247). The shores of southern New England show the influence of the English settlers with names including Newport, Portsmouth, Providence, Norwich. de Thaems River, Gilford and Niew London. In the far right, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are correctly named and more accurately represented than had previously been the case.
"The inset in the top third is the map's main claim to fame. It is the first engraved map devoted to the Hudson River and it, too, introduces many new placenames. On the west side above Manhattan is Taphaan and further upriver is Kats Kil, Middelburgh now Hudson, and 't Greyn Bosch near Albany. Tucked in with it is a smaller inset map of the lower reaches of the Connecticut River called the Versche , or fresh, River" (Burden II, p.247). After an initial investigation by the Dutch, and the establishment of an early trading post near Hartford in 1633, the Connecticut River was left largely to the English. Four main settlements identified here include the towns of Winser, Hereford (i.e. Hartford), Waters Veldt (Weathersfield) and Zee Broeck (Saybrook).
The first state of this chart was published by innovative Dutch cartographer and publisher Johannes van Keulen, in his 1685 Sea-Atlas [or Zee-Fakkel]. He had "published earlier editions of his Sea-Atlas [or Zee-Fakkel] in 1680 and 1683, but the [first state of the present chart] ... first appeared as illustration 20 in the third volume of the first completed edition published in 1685." (Deak p.41). The present example, Burden's second state with the plate number engraved in the lower left corner, is from the second edition of the atlas published in 1687. Burden records a third state (c.1695?) and a fourth (the most common, published first in about 1702).
Burden The Mapping of North America II, 587 (State 2); Deák Picturing America 68; cf. Koeman IV, Keu109B; McCorkle New England 684.3; cf. Phillips 530, 3444, 3453 and 5692; Stokes Iconography II, pp/158-159.
#24936$18,500.00
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 KEULEN, Johannes van (1678-1727)
Pas-kaart vande Noorder Zee custen van America
Amsterdam: [1687]. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring. Sheet size: 21 x 24 inches.
Van Keulen's scarce 17th century chart of the Arctic.
This rare chart by Van Keulen "delineates the territory surrounding the North West Passage and entrance to Hudson's Bay. Its progenitor is the Joannes van Loon chart first published in 1666 ... This version is drawn directly from Hendrick Doncker's chart published in 1678 as it similarly extends further south and eastwards..." (Burden).
The map depicts the southern and western coasts of Greenland, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the entrance to Hudson's Bay, with Baffin's Bay, Button's Bay, Lancaster Sound named, and Fort Nelson shown (among other toponyms). The cartouche depicts a Greenland native, dressed in a bear skin, shooting a bow and arrow at a mother bear and cubs.
The Van Keulen family were chart and instrument makers, and publishers of nautical textbooks, books on sea law, shipbuilding, almanacs and more. Founded by Joannes van Keulen (c.1654-1715), the firm remained in business for over 200 years.
This is the second state, with the privilege line added at the bottom of the cartouche, but with the engraver's error with Newfoundland reading "Teppa Nova."
Burden, The Mapping of North America 515; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 206.
#25773$1,350.00
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 KEULEN, Johannes van (1678-1727)
Pas-kaart vande zee-kusten van Terra Nova, met de byleggende zee-kusten van Francia Nova, Canada en Accadie van c. de Sables tot de mond vande straad davids...
Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [1687]. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 20 7/8 x 24 inches.
Van Keulen's 17th century chart of the Maritime Canada, here with period hand-colouring.
This map accurately depicts the Grand Banks, though is somewhat more fanciful regarding the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia, indicative of the Dutch charts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in this early period. This chart appeared in editions of both Van Keulen's Zee-Fakkel and Zee-Atlas.
The present copy is an example of Burden's second state (of 4), with the page number in the lower left corner but without a shoal added to the coastline of Nova Scotia.
Burden, The Mapping of North America 584; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 188.
#25699$1,500.00
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 KEULEN, Johannes van (1678-1727)
Pascaert van de Zuyd Zee en een gedeelte van Brasil ...
Amsterdam: [1680]. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline and with the cartouche fully coloured (expert restoration at sheet edges). Sheet size: 21 x 24 1/4 inches.
First state of Van Keulen's dramatic chart of the Pacific, here with beautiful period hand-colouring.
"This sea chart typifies the Dutch published image of the Pacific during this era. The southern Pacific contains the usual two islands of Magellan, along with the various landfalls of Le Maire and Tasman" (Suarez). Although centered on the Pacific, the map also encompasses all of North America, including a large depiction of California as an island, and most of South America. The present example is Burden's first state, issued in Van Keulen's 1680 Zee-Atlas and 1683 Zee-Fakkel.
The Van Keulen family were chart and instrument makers, and publishers of nautical textbooks, books on sea law, shipbuilding, almanacs and more. Founded by Joannes van Keulen (c.1654-1715), the firm remained in business for over 200 years.
Burden, The Mapping of North America II: 518; Clancy, The Mapping of Terra Australis 7.4; McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 76; Suarez, Early Mapping of the Pacific, pp. 94-95; Tooley, Australia 795; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast 443.
#25696$6,500.00
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 KITCHIN, Thomas (1719-1784)
British Dominions in America agreeable to the Treaty of 1763: Divided into the several Provinces and Jurisdictions
London: Andrew Dury, 1777. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Dissected into 16 sections and linen-backed as issued. Inset of the tip of Florida. Sheet size: 17 5/8 x 21 1/2 inches.
Rare Revolutionary-war separate issue of Kitchen's map of North America.
This map, in various forms, was issued by Kitchin following the French and Indian War and into the 1780s. Kitchen, who engraved the Mitchell map, closely follows that famed mapping, though in a reduced form. The colonies are shown from Labrador in the North to Florida in the south, and as far west as the other side of the Mississippi, which is marked "Extensive Meadows full of Buffaloes."
This copy is a rare separately-issued example in case map format. A similar map by Kitchen would appear in 1780 and 1782 editions of Guthrie's New System of Modern Geography (See McCorkle 780.6), though with the inset border and cartouche changed. We find only the Clements Library copy of this rare war-dated separate issue.
Not in Phillips, A List of Maps of America or McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps.
#25591$9,500.00
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 LAKE, D. J. and S. N. BEERS
Map of the Vicinity of Philadelphia From actual surveys by D.J. Lake and S.N. Beers Assisted by F.W. Beers, L.B. Lake and D.G. Beers
Philadelphia: J.E. Gillette & Co. publishers, 1861. Lithographed folding wall map, hand-coloured in outline, in 36 sections backed onto linen (87 4/5 x 65 3/4 inches overall), edged with pink linen ribbon, contemporary metal rings through cloth hoops sewn along upper margin of map. Contained in a recent red two-fold chemise, all within a recent red morocco-backed cloth slipcase, lettered and dated in gilt on the 'spine'.
A rare and finely-detailed magnificent large scale map of Philadelphia and surrounding country, and a fascinating picture of Philadelphia after the Consolidation Act of 1854.
The map incorporates a decorative title, an inset general plan of Philadelphia, with an extensive index of businesses and services, with inset details of boroughs and townships (with properties and ownerships indicated) the whole within a decorative border of scrolling fruit, vines, and leaves.
Philadelphia had been until 1830 the second largest city in the Union, when it was exceeded in size by Baltimore as well as New York. The Consolidation Act, passed by the state legislature, extended the cities boundaries to include all of Philadelphia county, and in 1860, the city was again able to claim to be the Union's second city. This map was drawn up after the census of 1860, and, in addition to comprehensive street plan of the city of Philadelphia, includes all the 15 boroughs and townships incorporated in 1854 (Somerton, Haddington, Whitehall, Bustleton, Fox Chase, Germantown, Bridesburg, Frankford, Kenderton, Manayunk, Falls of Schuylkill, Hestonville, Tacony, Holmesburg and Paschallville), each with accompanying directories, some adjacent, but most integral with the plans themselves. D. J. Lake and S. N. Beers, who had trained under J. H. French, were assisted in the execution of this map by Lamson Lake and Silas and Frederick Beers.
Phillips, Maps and Views of Philadelphia, 429; Phillips, America, p. 706 (variant issue); Rumsey 2903 (suggests 8 variant issues); Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 397.
#21375$5,250.00
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 LANE, Michael. - Thomas JEFFERYS, engraver (1719-1771)
A Chart of Part of the Coast of Labradore, from Grand Point to Shecatica, surveyed by Michael Lane in 1768, and Engraved by Thomas Jefferys Geographer to the King...
London: "Printed for R. Sayer and I. Bennett", 10 May 1770 [1775]. Engraved map. Insets plans of Mecatina Harbour, St. Augustine and Cumberland Harbour. Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 29 1/4 inches.
A chart of the coast of Labrador from the survey that launched the career of Captain James Cook.
At the conclusion of the French and Indian War, the British needed accurate charts of the territories that had been awarded to them in the Treaty of Paris. The areas that were of particular interest to the Admiralty included Labrador and Newfoundland.
"On 19 April 1763 James Cook, Master R.N.. was ordered by the Admiralty to proceed to Newfoundland 'in order to your taking a survey of the Parts of the Coasts and Harbours of that Island'" (Tooley & Skelton, in The Mapping of America p.177). His appointment would have been based, in no small part, on the glowing endorsement of his commanding officer, who had written to the Admiralty in December 1762 "that from my experience of Mr. Cook's genius and capacity, I think him well fitted for the work he has undertaken, and for greater undertakings of the same kind".
"The charting of Newfoundland and southern Labrador by Cook... and by his successor Michael Lane ... was unequalled, for thoroughness and method, by any previous hydrographic work by Englishmen [and also allowed Cook to master the art of practical surveying and navigation, in a way that brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society at a crucial moment. More immediately.] it produced the first charts of this extensive and difficult coastline that could (in the words of a later hydrographer) 'with any degree of safety be trusted by the seaman'" (Tooley & Skelton op. cit.).
Cook started by surveying the northwest stretch of coastline in 1763 and 1764, then in 1765 and 1766 the south coast between Cape Ray and the Burin Peninsula, and in 1767 the west coast. His work was interrupted by what was to prove to be the first of his three great voyages to the Pacific, and the work on Newfoundland and southern Labrador was finished by Michael Lane between 1768 and 1773" (Tooley & Skelton).
This copy is the second issue of the map as published in the first edition of the North American Pilot (preceded only by the very rare first issue of the map, without Sayer and Bennett's imprint, which appeared in Jeffery's Collection of Charts of the Coasts of Newfoundland and Labradore in 1769).
Skelton & Tooley The Marine Surveys of James Cook in North America 13.XIX. Not in Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada.
#25610$2,250.00
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 LATTRÉ, Jean
Carte des Etats-Unis de L'Amerique Suivant le Traité de Paix de 1783. Dédiée et Présentée A.S. Excellence Mr. Benjamin Franklin Ministre Plénipotentarie des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique pres la Cour de France, avec Présid. de la Pensilvanie et de la Societé Philosophique de Philadelphie, &c, &c.
Paris: Delamarche, 1784 [but circa 1791]. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset of the southern tip of Florida. Sheet size: 22 x 31 3/4 inches.
A very rare copy of the first French map of the newly-created United States following the Treaty of Paris and "one of the most attractively designed and executed maps of the period" (Ristow).
Lattré's famous map is held in a select group of the earliest maps of the nascent United States published immediately following the Treaty of Paris. Published in Paris, Lattré's map is believed to be the first to be printed following the final exchange of the ratification documents in May 1784. Cartographically, like the John Wallis and Abel Buell maps, Lattré relied on previous mappings of the United States. This appropriately included John Mitchell's famous map, which would also be used as the official map during the peace negotiations.
Benjamin Franklin's beloved status in France and his importance to the negotiations which formally ended the Revolution are reflected in Lattré's dedication to the American patriot. The dedication, Cappon writes, "lends historical significance to the work," and Cappon further suggests that Lattré may have presented a copy of the map in person to Franklin at the minister's residence in Passy.
The beautiful cartouche contains the title as well as the dedication to Franklin, both superimposed upon the great sail of a ship, upon which a seaman hangs emblems of the new United States. These include the earliest depiction of the Great Seal of the United States to appear on a map. The heraldic emblem in the seaman's hands above and to the left of the Great Seal are the arms of the Franklin family (a dolphin between two martlets flanked by lion's heads) and the third emblem is the seal of the Society of Cincinnati (a bald eagle with a central medallion depicting Cincinnatus with his sword).
Previously, this separately-published map was thought to exist in but one state. However, three states have now been identified. The first issue includes flanking panels of text on either side of the map detailing the historic military events of the Revolution. In the cartouche, immediately below the date 1784, a single line reads "avec Privilege du Roi" and the lower right margin below the neat line includes Lattré's imprint with a Rue St. Jacques address. The second state is nearly identical to the first and was likely issued shortly after. The second issue has the same "avec Privilege du Roi" line in the cartouche and with Lattré's imprint in the lower margin; however, the engraved flanking panels of text are now absent and a table listing the thirteen states and their capitals now appears to the left of the Florida inset. In the third state, as this copy, Delamarche's imprint replaces the "privilege" line in the cartouche and Lattré's imprint in the lower margin has been removed. Additionally, Vermont appears in the list of states and Washington, D.C. is named on the map itself, both suggesting a date after 1791. All states are rare.
Cappon, The First French Map of the United States (Chicago: 1978); Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 63, reproduced on p. 65; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 784.10; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies p. 158; Degrees of Latitude 70.
#24797$28,500.00
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 LE ROUGE, Georges Louis (1712-90)
Canada et Louisiane
Paris: 1755. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Large inset of the upper Mississippi, inset map of the lower Mississippi and the Gulf, small inset view of Niagara Falls. Sheet size: 29 x 22 inches.
First state of this important map of the eastern portion of North America, published on the eve of the French and Indian War.
"Covers the eastern part of North America from James Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Includes inset extensions of Louisiana and the present southeastern United States. Shows provinces, numerous towns and cities, forts, mines, rivers, Indian villages and tribal territory, the Great Lakes, and relief. Also includes an inset view, 'Sault du Niagara.' Color is used to identify French, Spanish, and English territorial claims. Annotated in French to show 'les pretensions des Anglois' particularly with regard to boundaries and treaties concerning Nova Scotia" (Sellers and Van Ee).
The present first state was published in 1755. With the outbreak of the American Revolution engendering increasing demand for American maps, Le Rouge reworked the plate (adding the boundaries of the new States) and re-titled it Theatre de la guerre en Amérique in 1777. He then re-worked it again and published it in 1787 with the title Carte d'une partie de l'Amérique Septentrionale pour servir a l'Histoire de la dernière guerre. The present first state, however, published on the eve of the French and Indian War is scarce.
McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 755.23; Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 33
#25700$1,750.00
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