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 SANSON, Nicholas & Guillaume SANSON (d. 1703)
Amerique Septentrionale
Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1669. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 16 3/8 x 23 1/2 inches.
A lovely, rich impression of the first state of among the most important French maps of North America of the second half of the 17th century, produced by the country's most esteemed family of cartographers.
This very influential map was the official successor to Nicolas Sanson's 1650 map of North America. When Nicolas Sanson, regarded as the father of the renaissance of cartography under Louis XIV, died in July, 1667, he left his flourishing business in the care of his eldest son Guillaume. The younger Sanson continued his father's partnership with the Mariette family, who were prominent Parisian printers. Guillame was determined to publish a new, updated edition of his father's Cartes Generales de toutes parties du Monde, the first French general atlas, originally published in 1657. The map of North America that appeared in the atlas, although masterful, was now considered to be geographically outdated.
The present map, which appeared in the second edition of the atlas, featured updated toponymy, and is geographically based on Nicolas Sanson's wall map of 1666 (of which only two copies survive). While California is shown to be an island, in line with popular perception, unlike the map from 1650, it no longer attempts to build a geographical mythology in the place of the Pacific Northwest, which was then totally unknown. Appropriately the magnificent baroque title cartouche, which features swags and ribbons held aloft by putti, has been placed to fill this enigmatic space.
Cartographically the map appears to be based on Sanson's maps of "Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France" and "Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride." Lake Erie is shown in a recognizable form and the entire Great Lakes network is shown in greater detail than his father's map, although the western lakes are still open-ended. On the East coast, Long Island is shown and the shape of the Outer Banks is improved. Several Indian tribes are identified in New Mexico where the R. del Norte (Rio Grande) mistakenly flows from an interior lake and empties into the Mar Vermeio ou Mer Rouge (Gulf of California). Iceland now appears in the Atlantic, as well as a bit of Britain. The map proved to be highly successful, and was sourced on numerous occasions by other mapmakers.
The present copy is an example of Burden's first state of the map; a second state would be issued in 1690.
Burden, The Mapping of North America I, 404; (first state) McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 669.4; McLaughlin, California as an Island, 45; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 399; Tooley, "California as an Island," 8 in Tooley,The Mapping of America.
#25686 $3,600.00  
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 SANSON, Nicholas & Guillaume SANSON (d. 1703)
Amerique Septentrionale
Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1669. Copper-engraved map, period hand colouring in outline. Sheet size: 18 x 24 inches.
The most important French map of North America of its generation, produced by the country's most esteemed family of cartographers
This very influential map was the official successor to Nicolas Sanson's 1650 map of North America. When Nicolas Sanson, regarded as the father of the renaissance of cartography under Louis XIV, died in July, 1667, he left his flourishing business under the charge of his eldest son Guillaume. The younger Sanson continued his father's partnership with the Mariette family, who were prominent Parisian printers. Guillame was determined to publish a new, updated edition of his father's Cartes Generales de toutes parties du Monde, the first French general atlas, originally published in 1657. The map of North America that appeared in the atlas, although masterful, was now considered to be geographically outdated.
The present map, which appeared in the second edition of the atlas, featured updated toponymy, and is geographically based on Nicolas Sanson's wall map of 1666 (of which only two copies survive). While California is shown to be an island, in line with popular perception, unlike the map from 1650, it no longer attempts to build a geographical mythology in the place of the Pacific Northwest, which was then totally unknown. Appropriately the magnificent baroque title cartouche, which features swags and ribbons held aloft by putti, has been placed to fill this enigmatic space.
Cartographically the map appears to be based on Sanson's maps of "Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France" and "Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride." Lake Erie is shown in a recognizable form and the entire Great Lakes network is shown in greater detail than his father's map, although the western lakes are still open-ended. On the East coast, Long Island is shown and the shape of the Outer Banks is improved. Several Indian tribes are identified in New Mexico where the R. del Norte (Rio Grande) mistakenly flows from an interior lake and empties into the Mar Vermeio ou Mer Rouge (Gulf of California). Iceland now appears in the Atlantic, as well as a bit of Britain. The map proved to be highly successful, and was sourced on numerous occasions by other mapmakers.
The present copy is an example of Burden's first state of the map; a second state would be issued in 1690.
Burden, The Mapping of North America I, 404; (first state) McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 669.4; McLaughlin, California as an Island, 45; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 399; Tooley, "California as an Island," 8 in Tooley,The Mapping of America.
#25685$3,000.00
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 SANSON, Nicholas and Guillaume SANSON (d. 1703)
Amerique Septentrionale
Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1669. Copper-engraved map, in very good condition. Sheet size: 16 5/8 x 23 1/3 inches.
The most important French map of North America of its generation, produced by the country's most esteemed family of cartographers
This very influential map was the official successor to Nicolas Sanson's 1650 map of North America. When Nicolas Sanson, regarded as the father of the renaissance of cartography under Louis XIV, died in July, 1667, he left his flourishing business in the care of his eldest son Guillaume. The younger Sanson continued his father's partnership with the Mariette family, who were prominent Parisian printers. Guillame was determined to publish a new, updated edition of his father's Cartes Generales de toutes parties du Monde, the first French general atlas, originally published in 1657. The map of North America that appeared in the atlas, although masterful, was now considered to be geographically outdated.
The present map, which appeared in the second edition of the atlas, featured updated toponymy, and is geographically based on Nicolas Sanson's wall map of 1666 (of which only two copies survive). While California is shown to be an island, in line with popular perception, unlike the map from 1650, it no longer attempts to build a geographical mythology in the place of the Pacific Northwest, which was then totally unknown. Appropriately the magnificent baroque title cartouche, which features swags and ribbons held aloft by putti, has been placed to fill this enigmatic space.
Cartographically the map appears to be based on Sanson's maps of "Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France" and "Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride." Lake Erie is shown in a recognizable form and the entire Great Lakes network is shown in greater detail than his father's map, although the western lakes are still open-ended. On the East coast, Long Island is shown and the shape of the Outer Banks is improved. Several Indian tribes are identified in New Mexico where the R. del Norte (Rio Grande) mistakenly flows from an interior lake and empties into the Mar Vermeio ou Mer Rouge (Gulf of California). Iceland now appears in the Atlantic, as well as a bit of Britain. The map proved to be highly successful, and was sourced on numerous occasions by other mapmakers.
The present copy is an example of Burden's first state of the map; a second state would be issued in 1690.
Burden, The Mapping of North America I, 404; (first state) McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 669.4; McLaughlin, California as an Island, 45; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 399; Tooley, California as an Island 8.
#19707$3,500.00
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 SANSON, Nicholas and Guillaume SANSON (d. 1703)
Amerique Septentrionale
Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1690. Copper-engraved map, period hand colouring in outline. Sheet size: 17 7/8 x 24 inches.
Among the most important French maps of North America of the second half of the 17th century, produced by the country's most esteemed family of cartographers.
This very influential map was the official successor to Nicolas Sanson's 1650 map of North America. When Nicolas Sanson, regarded as the father of the renaissance of cartography under Louis XIV, died in July, 1667, he left his flourishing business under the charge of his eldest son Guillaume. The younger Sanson continued his father's partnership with the Mariette family, who were prominent Parisian printers. Guillame was determined to publish a new, updated edition of his father's Cartes Generales de toutes parties du Monde, the first French general atlas, originally published in 1657. The map of North America that appeared in the atlas, although masterful, was now considered to be geographically outdated.
The present map, which appeared in the second edition of the atlas, featured updated toponymy, and is geographically based on Nicolas Sanson's wall map of 1666 (of which only two copies survive). While California is shown to be an island, in line with popular perception, unlike the map from 1650, it no longer attempts to build a geographical mythology in the place of the Pacific Northwest, which was then totally unknown. Appropriately the magnificent baroque title cartouche, which features swags and ribbons held aloft by putti, has been placed to fill this enigmatic space.
Cartographically the map appears to be based on Sanson's maps of "Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France" and "Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride." Lake Erie is shown in a recognizable form and the entire Great Lakes network is shown in greater detail than his father's map, although the western lakes are still open-ended. On the East coast, Long Island is shown and the shape of the Outer Banks is improved. Several Indian tribes are identified in New Mexico where the R. del Norte (Rio Grande) mistakenly flows from an interior lake and empties into the Mar Vermeio ou Mer Rouge (Gulf of California). Iceland now appears in the Atlantic, as well as a bit of Britain. The map proved to be highly successful, and was sourced on numerous occasions by other mapmakers.
The present copy is an example of Burden's second state of the map, with the date changed to 1690 in the cartouche and with additional place names and other changes: "...with minor alterations Terre de Jesso and Conibas inserted but without a coastline. Detroit d'Anian placed immediately above California and a few changes in spelling ... New Albion is inserted in the north of the island, and New York replaces [New] Amsterdam" (Tooley).
Burden, The Mapping of North America 404 (second state); McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 669.4; cf. McLaughlin, California as an Island, 45; cf. Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 399; Tooley, "California as an Island," 9 in Tooley,The Mapping of America.
#25648$2,800.00
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 SANSON, Nicholas, and Guillaume SANSON (d. 1703)
Amerique Septentrionale
Paris: Chez Pierre Mariette, 1669. Copper-engraved map, period hand colouring in outline. Sheet size: 17 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches.
The most important French map of North America of its generation, produced by the country's most esteemed family of cartographers.
This very influential map was the official successor to Nicolas Sanson's 1650 map of North America. When Nicolas Sanson, regarded as the father of the renaissance of cartography under Louis XIV, died in July, 1667, he left his flourishing business in the care of his eldest son Guillaume. The younger Sanson continued his father's partnership with the Mariette family, who were prominent Parisian printers. Guillame was determined to publish a new, updated edition of his father's Cartes Generales de toutes parties du Monde, the first French general atlas, originally published in 1657. The map of North America that appeared in the atlas, although masterful, was now considered to be geographically outdated.
The present map, which appeared in the second edition of the atlas, featured updated toponymy, and is geographically based on Nicolas Sanson's wall map of 1666 (of which only two copies survive). While California is shown to be an island, in line with popular perception, unlike the map from 1650, it no longer attempts to build a geographical mythology in the place of the Pacific Northwest, which was then totally unknown. Appropriately the magnificent baroque title cartouche, which features swags and ribbons held aloft by putti, has been placed to fill this enigmatic space.
Cartographically the map appears to be based on Sanson's maps of "Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France" and "Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride." Lake Erie is shown in a recognizable form and the entire Great Lakes network is shown in greater detail than his father's map, although the western lakes are still open-ended. On the East coast, Long Island is shown and the shape of the Outer Banks is improved. Several Indian tribes are identified in New Mexico where the R. del Norte (Rio Grande) mistakenly flows from an interior lake and empties into the Mar Vermeio ou Mer Rouge (Gulf of California). Iceland now appears in the Atlantic, as well as a bit of Britain. The map proved to be highly successful, and was sourced on numerous occasions by other mapmakers.
The present copy is an example of Burden's first state of the map; a second state would be issued in 1690.
Burden, The Mapping of North America I, 404; (first state) McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 669.4; McLaughlin, California as an Island, 45; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 399; Tooley, "California as an Island," 8 in Tooley,The Mapping of America.
#25695$3,500.00
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SARTINE, Antoine de (1729-1801)
Carte réduite des côtes orientale de l'Amérique Septentrionale contenant partie du Nouveau Jersey, la Pen-sylvanie, le Mary-land, la Virginie, la Caroline Septentrionale, la Caroline Méridionale et la Georgie...
Paris: Depot Generale de la Marine, 1778 [but circa 1800]. Engraved map, on two sheets joined, early linen-backing. Sheet size: 25 1/2 x 36 inches.
Revolutionary war map of the American coast from Delaware Bay to northern Florida.
This revolutionary war chart was issued by the Depot de la Marine specifically for the use of French vessels and was published coinciding with France's entry into the war. Unlike most nautical charts, the map includes very good inland detail. Cities, towns and forts are identified, rivers are named and elevation is shown via hachuring. In keeping with its principal use, however, ports along the coasts are identified and soundings are given. Dated 1778, the map was first issued in the 1780 edition of the Neptune Americo-Septentrional; this copy from a circa 1800 edition, with "RF" (i.e. Republique Francaise) added to the seal of the Depot de la Marine.
#25858$2,200.00
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 SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph (1736-1802)
A Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York in North America, divided into counties, manors, patents and Townships ... compiled from Actual Surveys deposited in the Patent Office at New York, by Order of His Excellency Major General William Tryon
London: William Faden, January 1st, 1779. Copper-engraving, on six sheets joined as three, period hand colouring. Sheet size: approximately 55 x 74 3/4 inches.
The last and best large-scale map of an American colony. Drawn on a scale of five miles to the inch, it is the most detailed printed map of any extensive part of North America published during the Revolutionary period.
Claude Joseph Sauthier was one of the most accomplished engineers working in America in the eighteenth century. Alsatian by birth, he accompanied Governor William Tryon to North Carolina in 1769. He surveyed several North Carolina towns and designed the Governor's Mansion at New Bern before accompanying Tryon to New York in 1771. He subsequently conducted many surveys of New York, and during the Revolution he served as a military engineer producing a number of fine maps for the British Army. A number of Sauthier's printed and manuscript maps, including an example of the present map, can be found in the collection formed by Sir Henry Clinton, Commander of the British Forces in North America, 1775-1782, now preserved at the William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Sauthier's greatest production was a large manuscript map of the Province of New York which was first published on three sheets in 1776 by William Faden as A Map of the Province of New York. This map included details taken from Bernard Ratzer's survey of New Jersey. Sauthier continued to improve this great manuscript during the first years of the Revolution, and in 1779 it was published, again by Faden, but greatly enlarged on six sheets, as A Chorographical Map....
The Chorographical Map contains a vast amount of information lacking from the 1776 map, particularly in upstate New York, the Catskills, and what would become Vermont. A note on the Chorographical Map states that "the Mohawk Valley and County of Tryon are Laid down according to an Actual Survey and other Manuscripts generously communicated by Governor Pownall." The grand scale, which was almost three times that of the 1776 map, also allowed for the inclusion of many previously omitted details in the more settled areas. The result is an amazing record of New York from the Revolutionary War period.
Adams, British Headquarters Maps and Sketches Used by Sir Henry Clinton...now preserved in the William L. Clements Library, 118; Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, pp. 72-74; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.505; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America and & West Indies 1750-1789, 1070; Cf. Brun, Guide to the Manuscript Maps in the William L. Clements Library, (original manuscript) 371; Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, (original manuscript) 100/2
#24757$37,500.00
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 SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph (1736-1802) and Bernard RATZER (fl. 1756-84)
A map of the Province of New-York, reduc'd from the large drawing of that Province, compiled from actual surveys by order of His Excellency William Tryon, Esqr. Captain General & Governor of the same, by Claude Joseph Sauthier; to which is added New-Jersey, from the topographical observations of C. J. Sauthier and B. Ratzer.
London: William Faden, August 1, 1776. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 33 x 26 inches.
Rare first issue of Sauthier's first map of New York and the first published use of Ratzer's surveys of New Jersey.
"...[I]n 1771 when Tryon was appointed governor of New York, he took his surveyor with him. Sauthier, during the next few years before the Revolution, was occupied in extensive surveys of the province and of the City of New York. His first map of the province, including surveys by Bernard Ratzer as well as his own, was published in 1776" (Cumming).
This large map, which appeared both as a separate issue and in Faden's North American Atlas, depicts New York as far north as the Canadian border, as far south as Cape May, New Jersey, as far west Lake Ontario, and as far east as Boston (though with little inland detail east of the Connecticut River). As the title suggests, the map principally depicts New York and New Jersey, with strong detail, naming numerous towns, forts, rivers, roads, churches, ferries, etc. and showing some topography by means of hachuring. Both the New York and New Jersey counties and manors are named and outlined in colour.
This important and rare map was compiled by Sauthier from at least three sources: his own surveys done on behalf of William Tryon, the surveys of Bernard Ratzer and the prior mappings of the region by Samuel Holland in 1768 and John Montresor in 1775. While perhaps forming the underlying basis of the map, the Sauthier map shows detail not found on either of the Holland or Montresor maps, suggesting a greater reliance on his own surveys and those by Ratzer.
The addition of New Jersey to this map, in detail not found on the maps by Holland or Montresor (and not found on Sauthier's Chorographical map of 1779), is significant. Ratzer's surveys, principally done in 1769 to resolve the boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey, would form the basis for his own great map of New Jersey on a larger scale published by Faden in 1777; the mapping of New Jersey from his surveys on the present map, however, predates that classic map. As on Ratzer's 1777 map, the boundary between the two states is shown with the notation "partition line ordered in 1769." In addition, the old division between East and West Jersey is shown.
As an interesting aside, running vertically down the center of the map is a line identified as the "Meridian of New York," said to be the first map to use this meridian. The map also has an engraved mention of Dartmouth College, among the earliest known printed references on a map. This map by Sauthier would form the cartographic basis for his great 1779 map, titled the Chorographical Map of the Province of New York. A second issue of the map would be published by Lotter in Augsburg in 1777.
Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 1047; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.503; Streeter sale II:878; Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, pp. 72-74; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 187; Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 52; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution pp. 158-60.
#25603$6,500.00
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 SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph (1736-1802)
A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen, with the Rebels Lines to the Southward, which were Forced by the Troops under the Command of the Rt. Honble. Earl Percy, on the 16th Novr 1776, and Survey'd immediately after by Claude Joseph Sauthier. To which is added the Attack made to the Northd. By the Hessians. Survey'd by Order of Lieut. Genl. Knyphausen
London: Published by Permission of the Rt. Honble. The Commissioners of Trade & Plantations by Wm. Faden, March 1, 1777. Copper-engraved map, with period outline colour. Some light old surface soiling. Sheet size: 22 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches.
This is one of a small handful of Revolutionary War battle plans that relate to the City of New York. Sauthier's delineation of upper Manhattan was the most accurate and detailed to date.
After the British occupation of New York, General Washington evacuated Manhattan, except for Fort Washington at the northern tip of the island. The British under General Howe moved north and attacked the main American army at White Plains in October 1776. But the Americans still remained in control of Fort Washington behind their forward lines.
On November 16, the British mounted a six-column attack on the fort that forced the patriots to surrender. Washington's decision not to evacuate Fort Washington was one of his most serious tactical errors of the war. Almost three thousand men were taken prisoner and the British seized large quantities of supplies and weapons. Four days later General Cornwallis was sent to take Fort Lee on the opposite New Jersey shore, but the Americans stationed there had retreated.
Sauthier illustrated the four phases of the attack with the letters A through D. The key at right identifies the first attack as that by Gen. Knyphausen, the second by Matthews and Cornwallis, the third as a feint, and the fourth by Lord Percy.
Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, pp. 72-74; Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, pp. 41-42; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, pp. 90-91; Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 116; Wallis, The American War of Independence, 116.
#20274$9,500.00
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 SAUTHIER, Claude Joseph (1736-1802) and HOMANN HEIRS
Mappa Geographica Provinciae Novae Eboraci ab Anglis New York dictae ex ampliori delineatione ad exactus dimensiones concinnata in arctius Spatium redacta cura Claudii Josephi Sauthier cui acceit Nova Jersey ex topographicis observationibus.
Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1778. Copper-engraved map, on two joined sheets, with original outline colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 34 1/8 x 25 inches.
An especially fine copy of Homann Heirs' elegant edition of Sauthier's celebrated map of New York and New Jersey, made during the Revolutionary War
The present map was printed by the esteemed Nuremberg firm, Homann Heirs, and is derivative of Claude Joseph Sauthier's greatest production, a large manuscript map of the provinces of New York and New Jersey which was first published on three sheets in 1776 by William Faden as A Map of the Province of New York. That map also included details taken from Bernard Ratzer's survey of New Jersey. Sauthier continued to improve this great manuscript during the first years of the Revolution, and in 1779 it was published, again by Faden, but on six sheets, as A Chorographical Map.... Although the two are usually viewed as different maps, they are clearly based on the same source (the aforementioned large manuscript), and the present map is a reduced version of this mapping sequence.
The Sauthier map contains a vast amount of information lacking in earlier works, particularly in upstate New York, the Catskills, and Vermont. Sauthier stated that "the Mohawk Valley and County of Tryon are Laid down according to an Actual Survey and other Manuscripts generously communicated by Governor Pownall [the esteemed cartographer and former Massachusetts governor]." The result is an amazing record of New York and New Jersey from the Revolutionary War period.
Alsatian by birth, Claude Joseph Sauthier accompanied Governor William Tryon to North Carolina in 1769. He surveyed several North Carolina towns and designed "Tryon's Palace" at New Bern before accompanying Tryon to New York in 1771. He subsequently conducted many surveys of New York, and during the revolution he served as a military engineer producing a number of fine maps for the British Army. A number of Sauthier's printed and manuscript maps, including an example of the present map, can be found in the collection formed by Sir Henry Clinton, Commander of the British Forces in North America, 1775-1782, now preserved at the William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
This map was made by Germany's premier printer of cartographic works, originally founded by Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724). Homann had established himself in Nuremberg, and by 1715 was appointed Geographer to the Emperor, producing some of the finest maps and atlases of the age. After Homann's death, the prolific business was taken over by his son, Johann Christoph. From 1730, the firm was entrusted to a committee of family members, the Homann Heirs, who published maps and atlases for the next two generations, maintaining the high standards set by Johann Baptist.
McCorckle, Early Printed Maps of New England, 778.9; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 1049
#19732$3,500.00
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