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 SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) & John BENNETT (d.1787)
A Chart of the Gulf of St. Laurence, composed from a great number of actual surveys and other materials, regulated and connected by astronomical observations
London: "Printed & sold by Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennett", 25 March 1775. Engraved map. Table of astronomical observations. Sheet size: 29 x 21 5/8 inches.
Rare first state of Sayer and Bennett's chart of the Gulf of St. Laurence, based on the surveys by James Cook and Michael Lane.
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 Tooley's 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 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. Thomas Jefferys used the charts by Cook and others to form the "Collection of Charts of 1769-70, a prototype ... for the celebrated North-American Pilot which was to be published in five English editions from 1775 to 1806" (Tooley & Skelton op,cit.).
Unlike many of the other charts in the North American Pilot which appeared in other forms in earlier publications, the present chart first appeared in the 1775 edition of that great atlas. As the title suggests, Sayer and Bennett drafted this map by compiling information from other sources, with the charting of southern Labrador and the western and southern coasts of Newfoundland entirely based on the surveys by Cook and Lane. The map would be republished in successive issues of the North American Pilot (with changes to the imprint) as well as copies of The American Atlas (with "Pl. No." added to the upper right corner in advance of "XI").
Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada II:597; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 1209; Skelton & Tooley, The Marine Surveys of James Cook in North America 13.XI
#25608 $1,000.00  
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 SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) & John BENNETT (d.1787), publishers.
The Seat of War in New England by an American volunteer, with the marches of the several corps sent by the colonies towards Boston with the attack on Bunkers Hill.
London: printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 2 September 1775. Copper-engraved map, with original colour. Two insets along the right side titled "Plan of Boston Harbour from an Actual Survey" and "Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunker's Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown". Sheet size: 22 x 27 3/4 inches.
A rare and dramatic Revolutionary war map of New England, showing George Washington's troops marching on British-occupied Boston, with a large inset plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill showing Charlestown in flames: among the earliest pictorial representations of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Published by Sayer & Bennett shortly after news of the Battle of Bunker Hill reached London, the map celebrates the British victory in the battle, but gives a portent of the impending siege of Boston and the eventual Battle of Dorchester Heights. The general map of New England provides a backdrop for illustrations of American troops, most notably including the "march of Washington" in western Massachusetts, but also showing militia marching from New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island, all converging on Boston. Two smaller insets along the right side of the map, each printed from a separate plate, depict a general plan of Boston Harbour and a plan of Boston and Charlestown showing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
This latter inset is quite dramatic and of great significance. Charlestown is shown under attack by British forces, with the town in flames as British warships bombard it from the water, and a British battery fires across the Charles River from Cornhill in Boston; the locations of the British and American forces on Breed's Hill are shown, as the two armies face each other in battle. In Boston, a large encampment of British regulars is shown on Boston commons, surrounding the Liberty tree. The inset would later be re-engraved and used in Newcastle and Boston editions of Murray's Impartial History of the War.
It is believed that the inset is a graphic representation of information on the battle derived from a 25 June 1775 letter written by General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley: "...Howe's corps ascending the hill in the face of entrenchments, and in a very disadvantageous ground, was much engaged; and to the left the enemy pouring in fresh troops by the thousands, over the land; and in the arm of the sea our ships and floating batteries cannonading them: strai[gh]t before us a large and noble town in one great blaze; the church steeples, being of timber, were great pyramids of fire above the rest ... the whole a picture and a complication of horror and importance beyond any thing that ever came to my lot to be witness to..." Sayer and Bennett would publish this letter as a broadside on 27 November 1775, nearly two months after this inset, illustrating it with a different plan of the battle.
The earliest cartographic representation of the Battle of Bunker Hill is a 1 August 1775 plan published by Jefferys and Faden titled "A Sketch of the Action between British Forces and the American Provincials on the Heights of the Peninsula of Charlestown." That map, however, purely shows military movements. The inset to the present map is the second printed plan of the battle and considered to be the first pictorial representation.
Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 150/6; Nebenzahl, Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 6 & 6a; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 775.1; Krieger & Cobb, Mapping Boston, p.103; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, plate 117; Stokes B-105; c.f. Ristow, Cartography of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Not in Nebenzahl's Atlas of the American Revolution (which reproduces a later version of the inset on page 55) or Phillips.
#21131$75,000.00
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 SAYER, Robert (1725-1794) & John BENNETT (d.1787), publishers.
The Theatre of War in North America, with the Roads, and a Table of Distances ... A Compendious Account of the British Colonies in North-America
London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 20 March 1776. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset table of distances titled "Evan's Polymetric Table of America." Three columns of letterpress text beneath the map titled "A Compendious Account of the British Colonies in North-America" including a small table of the populations of the colonies at the bottom of the middle column. Sheet size: 30 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches.
Rare broadside map published early in the war to satisfy the public demand for news relating to the Revolution in the colonies.
"This map was published in early 1776 and sold in the streets of London for one shilling. It had text printed below the map which described colonies in detail" (Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution). The map itself is based largely on the French mapping by D'Anville (see Faden's map after D'Anville in Sayer and Bennett's American Atlas), although apparently also borrows from other sources. It depicts the colonies from Labrador to East Florida and as far west as a vast Louisiana. The complicated table of distances was no doubt included on the map to give the British public a better understanding of the vastness of the American continent, and in turn of the large scale of the theatre of war. The text below the map is quite interesting, describing the limits of each colony and their respective principal towns, harbours, rivers, etc. The small population table includes a breakdown not only of the total populations of each colony, but also the number of both white and African American men "able to bear arms."
Stevens and Tree note three issues of this first edition of the map, with the present example being their earliest, also noting a succeeding edition dated November 1776 cut from an entirely new plate.
Stevens & Tree, "Comparative Cartography" 58a, in Tooley, The Mapping of America; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 588; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, endpapers; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 145; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 776.26.
#24783$28,500.00
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 SCHENCK, Peter (1645-1715)
Tabula Mexicae et Floridae, Terrarum Anglicarum, et Anteriorum Americae Insularum; Ite, Cursuum et Circuituum Fluminis Mississippi Dicti
Amsterdam: [circa 1710]. Copper-engraved map, full period hand-colouring. Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches.
Highly decorative Dutch derivative of De l'Isle's monumental 1703 mapping: this copy a dark impression with beautiful full period colour.
Despite the title, this map covers a large portion of North America, from the Great Lakes in the north, through the Caribbean to Panama in the south, with Delisle's excellent depiction of the Mississippi River Valley. The Southwest shows missions and native villages, including Acoma, as well as Taos, Santa Fe, and Casas Grandes. Schenk has added a vignette off the Pacific coast of Central America, reflecting the wealth of the region with an elaborate sea battle between Spanish and French forces and a scene of buccaneers unloading a treasure chest. The routes of the Spanish galleons are shown throughout the Caribbean.
Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest p. 93 and plate 16; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 107; Lowery 198.
#25713$2,000.00
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 SCHENK, Peter (1645-1715)
America Septentrionalis Novissima ... America Meridionalis accuratissima
Amsterdam: P. Schenk, 1696. Copper-engraved map, full period hand colouring. Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches.
Lovely 17th century map of North and South America with California as an island. This elegant map is noted for its cartouches designed by Romein de Hooghe.
"The most notable feature of this map is the two separate titles for North and South America. These, it is believed, are etched by the noted artist Romein de Hooghe. The cartography reflects that typical of the period for Amsterdam. Five Great Lakes are shown, the two western ones being left open to the west, there is an old style depiction of the Mississippi basin, and California is depicted in a Foxe style insular format" (Burden).
Burden, The Mapping of North America 722; McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 120; Tooley "California as an Island," 56 in Tooley,The Mapping of America.
#25784$1,750.00
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 SCHRÄMBL, Franz Anton (1751-1803)
Generalkarte von Nordamerika sant den Westindischen Inseln
Vienna: 1788. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, on four unjoined sheets, with full natural margins, in excellent condition. Sheet size of each 24 1/3 x 33 inches.
A finely engraved monumental map of North America depicted shortly after the American Revolution, by a great Austrian cartographer.
This is one of the largest depictions of North America made during the eighteenth-century. Schrämbl, who was by then one of Austria's most prominent cartographers, directly based this work on the map by Thomas Pownall. Pownall, a British MP, and formerly the governor of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, first produced this map in 1777. Schrämbl based his work on Pownall's 1783 second state, which showcases the former thirteen colonies as the newly independent United States of America. It was included as one of the principal maps of his grand work, the Allgemeiner Grosser Atlas.
The immense scope of Schrämbl map's takes in all of the territory from James Bay, all the way down into the Spanish Main of South America. The map shows the newly independent American republic to be a small nation hugging the Atlantic seaboard, while the vast lands of the Ohio and Mississippi basins are shown to be largely uninhabited.
The map covers all regions in great geographic detail. One of the most attractive features of the map is its pictorial representation of Native American villages, trading posts, mines and other features. Mexico, Central America, and the broad chain of the West Indian archipelago are also elegantly portrayed. The map features two fascinating cartographic insets; the first of which depicts Hudson's Bay and the Canadian Arctic; the latter supposedly containing the entrance to the purported Northwest Passage. The second inset features the head of the Sea of Cortes in the southwest, evincing Father Eusabio Kino's declaration that California is not an island, based on his exploration of the area from 1698 to 1701. This elegant compostion is further embellished by a large cartouche of rocaille ornamentation.
Cf. Kohlmaier, Ursula, Der Verlag Franz Anton Schrämbl (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2001); McCorckle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 788.6
#19597$3,400.00
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 SCULL, Nicholas (1687 - 1761)
To the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esqrs. True & absolute Proprietaries & Governours of the Province of Pennsylvania & Counties of New-Castle Kent & Sussex on Delaware This Map of the improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania. Is humbly Dedicated by Nicholas Scull.
Philadelphia: 1759. Engraved map on six sheets, joined as three. Excellent condition, with three short repaired tears, very minor age toning at the sheet edges, overall in remarkable unsophisticated condition. Provenance: Laird U. Park (Sotheby’s New York, 29 November 2000, lot 322). Sheet size: 3 sheets, each app. 31 x 21 1/2 inches.
"The first map of Pennsylvania to be published in America [as well as] the most ambitious cartographical work to come from an American source before the Revolution" (Wroth).
Nicholas Scull, Jr. (1687-1761) was born in Philadelphia to Nicholas Scull, Sr. the surveyor and mapmaker, who had been apprenticed to William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme. In 1719, he became deputy surveyor of Philadelphia County, eventually ascending to the Surveyor Generalship of Pennsylvania in 1748. A bibliophile, he was an original member of Benjamin Franklin's Junto. Scull was intimately involved with Indian relations for the colony, having travelled amongst the tribes to survey the western counties. He was knowledgeable in several local Native languages. But in the dispute that arose about the infamous Walking Purchase of 1737, at which he was present, his recollections favored the Proprietors. This is hardly surprising but it no doubt put him in a good position with the Penn family, and it is thought that this may have led to the publication of this impressive map. It was the first map of Pennsylvania since Thomas Holme's 1687 map of the then much smaller settlement, and represents a vast amount of on-site surveying. Dedicated to the Penn brothers, Scull's map is among the largest and finest maps produced in America in the 18th century. It was an extraordinary achievement.
The map depicts Philadelphia, Bucks, Northampton, Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Cumberland, and York Counties, and is based on Scull's own surveys, as well as the contributions of several others (whom he acknowledges). Some information was gleaned from printed sources, including Fry-Jefferson's important map, evidenced by a printed footnote concerning the location of Fort Cumberland and the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. Elevation is accurately depicted, much in the style of Fry-Jefferson, by neat hachuring marks. The eastern counties include a wealth of detail, such as churches, meeting houses, inns, iron forges, mills and the manors of significant residents; roads, Indian paths, Indian towns and forts: all clearly shown throughout. Although generally quite accurate, it is curious that Scull included Fort Granville on his map, which had been destroyed by the French and Delaware Indians in 1756. Nevertheless, the importance and accuracy of this large-scale map is underscored by the fact that a copy of it was among the maps hung by the Board of War at Philadelphia in August 1776, twenty years after the map's publication (as noted by John Adams in his letter to his wife dated 13 August 1776).
The map was engraved by James Turner (d. 1759), a Philadelphia silversmith and protégé of Benjamin Franklin. Turner had previously worked on map engraving during the production of James Parker's 1747 maps of New Jersey, a project for which he had been recommended by Franklin. Little is known about the printer John Davis. Although he had no shop, he appears to have specialized in large copperplate engravings of maps, as he is the printer identified in the imprint of the 1756 Philadelphia first edition of Joshua Fisher's important chart of Delaware Bay. That map and the present one are his only known works.
Nicholas Scull's grandson William Scull revised and extended the 1759 map in a version that was also dedicated to the Penn brothers but which was published in London in 1770, and appeared subsequently in several editions through the decade. Much of the geographical information is the same, but interestingly the earlier map is both larger and evinces greater aesthetic satisfaction.
Scull's 1759 map of Pennsylvania is very rare, with less than a dozen known institutional copies. Only a few have appeared at auction in the last half century, most notably in the sales of the collections of Thomas W. Streeter, Howard E. Welsh and Laird U. Park (this copy).
Everstadt 167:430 (quoting Wroth); Evans 8489; Garrison, "Cartography of Pennsylvania before 1800 in PMHB vol. 59, no.3; Phillips, p. 673; Ristow, pp. 52-53, Streeter sale 965; Wheat & Brun 422; Sellers & Van Ee 1294.0
#21368$185,000.00
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 SENEX, John (1678-1740)
A New Map of America From the latest Observations
London: [1719]. Copper-engraved map, engraved by J. Harris, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 19 7/8 x 23 1/4 inches.
Unusual English depiction of California as an island and with a conjectural mapping of the northwest coast
This is one of relatively few English maps to depict California as an island. This is not its only bit of cartographical fiction. Depicting all of North and South America, the map includes a conjectural northwest coast, likely derived from Morden (with the farthest north point on that coast to be a town named on the map Desolation). A large mythical Lake Thoaga is shown in western Canada and a wide river is shown extending from western Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico across the Florida panhandle. The cartouche is a lovely compostion of native peoples and animals.
McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 193; Tooley "California as an Island," 81 in Tooley,The Mapping of America; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast 520.
#25710$2,400.00
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 SENEX, John (1678-1740)
A New Map of America From the latest Observations
London: [1719]. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 20 5/8 x 23 inches.
Unusual English depiction of California as an island and with a conjectural mapping of the northwest coast.
This is one of relatively few English maps to depict California as an island. Depicting all of North and South America, the map includes a conjectural northwest coast, likely derived from Morden (with the farthest north point on that coast to be a town named on the map Desolation). A large mythical Lake Thoaga is shown in western Canada and a wide river is shown extending from western Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico across the Florida panhandle. The cartouche is a lovely composition of native peoples and animals.
McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 193; Tooley, "California as an Island," 81 in Tooley, The Mapping of America; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast 520
#25711$2,400.00
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 SENEX, John (1678-1740)
North America corrected from the observations communicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris
[London]: 1710. Engraved map on two sheets joined, hand-coloured in outline. Early manuscript notation in the area of the Caribbean: "The first land discover'd by Colombus 1492". Sheet size: 39 x 27 1/4 inches.
An early, rare and important large-scale English map of North America.
This decorative map provided the English speaking world with a highly detailed depiction of North America and one of the earliest large-scale English maps of the region. The area covered includes the Hudson's Bay and Arctic regions, as well as the explored portions of the American west. Dedicated to Anthony Hammond, Commissioner in Her Majesty's Navy (whose arms appear on the map below the decorative cartouche), the map incorporates data from Guillaume De L'Isle's landmark mapping of the region (his 'Carte du Mexique et de la Floride' in particular). Senex, however, also made significant improvements to the earlier maps, particularly in his depictions of the Great Lakes region as well as the lower Mississippi delta: the result is probably the most accurate English depiction of its time. There is also much valuable textual information given on the map, including Native American place names, and notes on the discovery of many remote areas, most notably Lahontan's mythical Long River.
The present example is an intermediate state between Stevens & Tree A and B; i.e. without John Maxwell's imprint but before the addition of the Bowles imprint.
Degrees of Latitude pp.110-113; Stevens & Tree, "Comparative Cartography" 61, in Tooley, The Mapping of America; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast 495; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West 92.
#24761$12,000.00
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