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 ALLARD, Carol (1648-1709)
Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula
Amsterdam: circa 1697. Copper-engraved map. Small inset of New Zealand within the cartouche. Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches.
Rare issue of Allard's map of North and South America, the first to show important corrections to the mapping of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Valley.
"The map of America by Allard is derived from that of Frederick de Wit, c. 1675" (Burden). Significantly, however, Allard corrects the mapping of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. "The former are entirely re-engraved as are the nearby waterways off the St. Lawrence River including Lake Champlain, which is moved south-west. Lake Superior is now enclosed to the west as is Lac des Puans, which is renamed Lac Illinois, placing the previous toponym correctly in Green Bay. To the west an entirely new and more recent depiction of the Mississippi valley is inserted. This is derived from that of Louis Hennepin ... published in 1697" (Burden).
This is Burden's second state, with a ruled border surrounding the New Zealand inset but without the textual descriptions of climates between the neat line and gradients. It is the first state to show the important corrections noted above. Beyond the cartographic importance, the cartouche is especially attractive, with an allegorical figure of America seated within a sugar cane field inhabited by exotic animals and scenes relating to mankind's eternal search for gold.
Burden, The Mapping of North America II: 724; McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island, 132; Tooley, "California as an Island," in The Mapping of America 65
#25649 $2,600.00  
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 BAUMAN, Sebastian
To His Excellency Genl. Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America. This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down, and is Most humbly dedicated by his Excellency's Obedient and very humble servant, Sebastn. Bauman, Major of the New York or 2nd Regt of Artillery
Philadelphia: 1782. Copper engraving, with original hand-colouring. "References to the British Lines" is set within a scroll in the upper right-hand corner. At lower center is a lengthy key or "Explanation" of the battlefield, which identifies and describes eighteen key locations on the battlefield. The explanation is set within a rococo frame, which in turn is enclosed by the flags of the United States and France, cannon, arms, and other spoils of battle. Some minor creases on verso from previous folding, restoration to margins beyond platemark. Image size (including text): 25 1/2 x 17 7/16 inches. Sheet size: 27 x 18 7/8 inches.
"A cornerstone document of our national heritage" (Nebenzahl, Atlas, p. 184.)
Within three days of the British surrender on October 19, 1781, Major Sebastian Bauman, an American artillery officer, took the field and carefully surveyed the terrain and battle positions at Yorktown. A native of Germany, Bauman had emigrated to America after service in the Austrian army. During the Revolution, he served in the campaigns in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and was in command of the artillery at West Point, before joining Washington at the siege of Yorktown.
Bauman spent six days surveying the battlefield at Yorktown. His manuscript draft was quickly sent to Philadelphia where it was engraved by Robert Scot to be sold by subscription. The map was advertised in The New York Packet and the American Advertiser in March 1782:
"Major Bauman of the New York, or Second Regiment of Artillery, Has Drawn a Map of the Investment of York and Gloucester, in Virginia. Shewing how those posts were besieged in form, by the allied army of America and France; the British lines of defence, and the American and French lines of approach, with part of York River, and the British ships as they then appeared sunken in it before Yorktown; and the whole encampment in its vicinity./ This Map, by desire of many gentlemen, will shortly be published in Philadelphia, in order that the public may form an idea of that memorable siege. Those gentlemen who incline to become subscribers will apply to the printer hereof; where the conditions will be shewn, and subscription money be received."
This was the only detailed battle plan of Yorktown published in America. As a participant for the winning side, Bauman was able to spend more time surveying the field than the British engineers who were bottled up in Yorktown. Thus he was able to include an extensive area to the south of the town that does not appear on the best British plans, such as those published by Faden and Des Barres. The location of the French and American positions is necessarily more detailed and informed. As it appeared in print before the British plans, it was the first survey of the Siege of Yorktown made available to the American public.
Margaret Pritchard notes that the plan was also an effective piece of propaganda: "In addition to providing substantial detailed military information, this map is also interesting for its artistic composition. Yorktown, Gloucester Point, and troop positions are confined primarily to the top half of the map. The lower half is dominated by the explanation that is embellished with ornaments of war. The shape of the scrollwork cartouche surrounding the explanation, with flags and banners that thrust upward from both sides, force the eye to the center of the image. "Here, in an open space, is the very heart of the map, 'The field where the British laid down their Arms'. " It is this field that is omitted from all of the British battle plans of Yorktown.
Bauman's plan is a legendary rarity which almost never appears on the market. Its scarcity is due to the fact that it was separately published by subscription only. Relatively few sheets were printed, and very few of those survived. Wheat & Brun locate eight institutional copies, but not one in Virginia. To these, we can add four copies known to us in private American collections.
Perhaps Nebenzahl summarized the importance of the map best: "Bauman's splendid map, dedicated to General Washington, reflects his formal European training in topographical engineering. It is the only American survey of the culmination of the great struggle for independence and a cornerstone document of our national heritage."
Alexander O. Vietor, The Bauman Map of the Siege of Yorktown; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 199; Degrees of Latitude, 68; Nebenzahl, A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 189; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, Map 48; Wheat & Brun, Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800: A Bibliography, entry 541; Fite & Freeman, A Book of Old Maps, pp. 287-288; Stokes & Haskell, American Historical Prints, pp. 57-58; Virginia Magazine of History & Biography 39 (1931), reproduced opp. p. 104.
#20696$250,000.00
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 BEAURAIN, Jean Chevalier de (1696-1772, cartographer) - Georg Friedrich Jonas FRENTZEL (1754-1799, engraver)
Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston
Leipzig: Johann Carl Müller, 1776. Copper-engraved map, with troop positions highlighted in period colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 22 x 26 7/8 inches.
A very rare and highly decorative work, one of the most important Revolutionary War maps of Boston, that Krieger & Cobb cite as "the only German map of Boston [made] during the Revolutionary period."
The present map is an outstanding work on many levels. Boston and its environs are depicted on the eve of one of the most momentous events in American history, the Siege of Boston, which gave George Washington his first important victory. A great topographical work, the varied nature of the land is expressed with great virtuosity in finely engraved hachures. The superlative mapping of the coastline and the harbor is derived from J.F.W. Des Barres' "Map of the port of Boston."
The map captures the moment when British forces, still in control of Boston, prepare to face George Washington's Continental forces. Boston, on a narrow peninsula is shown to be in an increasingly precarious defensive position. In an improvement over its predecessor, Frentzel's edition makes a clear reference to the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), noting the "Ruinen von Charles=town." Around the city, the placement of the respective forces is depicted with unparalleled accuracy, with the British troop lines highlighted in blue and the Continental troop lines in red. Three divisions of Washington's forces are placed with one at Cambridge, one at Charlestown Neck, and another above Roxbury. The observer will notice that the British commanders elected not to place troops atop Dorchester Heights. Washington later took this ground, giving him an irrepressible advantage over the British in the ensuing siege. The British were compelled to leave the city in March, 1776.
This second version is much rarer than Beaurain's original work which was printed earlier that year with French toponymy. Preserved in the present version, in the upper-right, is a highly decorative and iconographically emblematic title cartouche. Beaurain, in homage to the French sympathies to the rebel cause, depicts an Englishman cruelly trying to depose a banner from the Tree of Liberty, against the will of an indignant American.
Although the conflict inspired considerable interest in Germany, this map is the only German map of Boston printed there during the Revolutionary period. Late in 1776, Leipzig master-engraver G. F. J. Frentzel created a new edition of the map that was faithful to Beaurain's original, and it was printed as part of the Geographisches Belustigungen zur Erläuterung der neuesten Weltgeschichte, an extremely rare German book on the early days of the War of Independence.
Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 706; Krieger & Cobb, Mapping Boston, p.181, pl. 27; The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal no.30 (1973), pp.252-253; Nebenzahl, A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 19; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 924
#19226$37,500.00
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 BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
Carte de la Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada
[Paris: Bellin], 1744. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. (Cut to edge of neat line and laid down on sheet of early laid paper). Sheet size: 15 7/8 x 22 1/4 inches.
Bellin's "definitive map of Eastern Canada & Newfoundland that served as a basis for numerous maps subsequently" (Kershaw).
First issued in 1744, Kershaw has identified 4 editions of the map, with multiple states, by Bellin (plus a subsequent re-issue by Homann Heirs). The present map is an example of the first edition, but because it has been cut to the neat line it is not possible to say if it is the first or second state (see Kershaw for details). "An important map that Bellin used subsequently as a base for his later maps of the area, and one that was also copied extensively by numerous other cartographers [including the Homann Heirs, Bowen, Jefferys and Turner], through to the middle of the century.
Cf. Kershaw,Early Printed Maps of Canada III:684 and 685; cf. Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 622; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 744.2.
#25669$1,000.00
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 BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada
[Paris: Bellin], 1755. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches.
Bellin's foundation map of eastern Canada.
First issued in 1744, Kershaw has identified 4 editions of the map, with multiple states, by Bellin (plus a subsequent re-issue by Homann Heirs). The present map is an example of the final state by Bellin. "Numerous changes have been made to the plate, notably the left-hand corner, west and south of Lake Champlain, has been completely re-engraved, with changes to the Saint Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Cape Cod ... Notably 'la Pointe Riche' has been added towards the top of the west coast of Newfoundland, somewhat surprising for a French map" (Kershaw). Importantly, this map would be the basis for many future mappings of the region, including those by Homann Heirs, Bowen, Jefferys and Turner.
Kershaw,Early Printed Maps of Canada III:689; Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 3498; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 622.
#25590$1,500.00
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 BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada
[Paris: Bellin], 1755. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 19 1/4 x 24 3/4 inches.
Bellin's foundation map of eastern Canada.
First issued in 1744, Kershaw has identified 4 editions of the map, with multiple states, by Bellin (plus a subsequent re-issue by Homann Heirs). The present map is an example of the final state by Bellin. "Numerous changes have been made to the plate, notably the left-hand corner, west and south of Lake Champlain, has been completely re-engraved, with changes to the Saint Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Cape Cod ... Notably 'la Pointe Riche' has been added towards the top of the west coast of Newfoundland, somewhat surprising for a French map" (Kershaw). Importantly, this map would be the basis for many future mappings of the region, including those by Homann Heirs, Bowen, Jefferys and Turner.
Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of CanadaIII:689; Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 3498; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 622.
#25679$1,200.00
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 BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638)
Insulæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali, cum terris adiacentibus
Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1640. Engraved with period outline colour. French text. Mild soiling more evident at the edges. Repaired split at base of center fold. Image size (including text): 15 x 20 3/4 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 23 3/8 inches.
This attractive map called the American Islands is essentially a coastal chart of the eastern seaboard from the Chesapeake to Florida, all of the Gulf of Mexico to the Orinoco River in Venezuela, and part of the Pacific coast of Central America.
The map was based upon the Hessel Gerritz map of circa 1631, which was separately published and is extremely rare. Gerritz was the cartographer for the Dutch West India Company, working under Johannes de Laet, who was in charge of Dutch interests in the Americas and Africa. The new material for this map was gathered in 1628 during a voyage through the region that may have included Chesapeake Bay and certainly included all the places from the Bahamas south and southwest depicted in the map.
Koeman, Bl 17, #81; Goss, Blaeu's The Grand Atlas of the 17th Century, p. 124-125; Burden, The Mapping of North America 242 and 236.
#13895$2,500.00
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 BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638)
Virginiae partis australis et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumq, regionum Nova Descriptio.
Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving with period outline colour, Latin text on verso. Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 24 inches.
Important early Dutch map of southeastern America: this copy with exceptionally wide margins and with very pretty period hand colouring.
This is the second state of Blaeu's map of the southeastern portion of North America. The map depicts the region from present day northern Florida to Chesapeake Bay. France is shown as governing the southern portion of this land (though they had been forced out in fact some time before by the Spanish) and Great Britain as ruler of the northeast.
As pointed out by Burden, this map improves on the Hondius-Mercator map of the same region in its depiction of the Outer Banks and in its inclusion of the Chesapeake Bay, and it provided the best depiction of the region until 1700. Its handsome cartouche surrounded by full figure Native Americans and its elaborate calligraphy contribute to make it one of the most artistically successful maps of 17th century America.
Cumming, 41 (plate 26); Burden, The Mapping of North America 253; Goss, 31
#23454$2,750.00
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 BLASKOWITZ, Charles (ca. 1743-1823)
A Topographical Chart of the Bay of Narraganset in the Province of New England with all the Isles contained therein, among which Rhode Island and Connonicut [sic] have been particularly surveyed ... To which has been added the Several works and batteries raised by the Americans ...
London: William Faden, 22 July 1777. Engraved map, dissected into 16 sections at a contemporary date, linen-backing renewed (expert restoration at the corners). Sheet size: 37 x 25 1/8 inches.
Rare first edition of Blaskowitz's famed Revolutionary War map of Narragansett Bay published by Faden.
Charles Blaskowitz arrived in America in the early 1760s as a young but evidently skilled surveyor and began work in upstate New York and along the St. Lawrence River. In March 1764, he was commissioned as part of Samuel Holland's North American Survey team and would eventually become Holland's Deputy Surveyor by 1775. Blaskowitz's first assignment was to survey Aquidneck Island and Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island in order to determine whether Newport would be a suitable location for a naval base. Blaskowitz accomplished that 1764 survey and a base was recommended, though was not established at that time. A decade later, Blaskowitz re-surveyed the region as part of Holland's larger surveys of the coast being accomplished for the Board on Trade and Plantations.
By that time, the colonies were already on the brink of Revolution. Newport, in particular, was a hotbed of insurrection. In 1772, British naval ships laid siege to Narragansett Bay in order to enforce customs duties on incoming vessels. After months of antagonizing the city's merchants, the much-hated British captain of the HMS Gaspee was murdered and the ship burned. The region instantly became a point of great interest in Great Britain, with the King offering a reward for the capture of the insurrectionists. In May 1776, Rhode Island would become the first British Colony to declare its independence; the British would occupy Newport from November of that year until the end of August 1778.
"It is certain that the British, after occupying Newport at the end of 1776, used this map for their operations in this pivotal area. The detail shown is remarkable, including even the names of farmers on their land locations" (Nebenzahl).
The map itself is unusual in that it is a combination of a nautical chart and topographical map (and hence the title, "A Topographical Chart..."). The Bay is clearly shown with its many islands and intricate inlets, with numerous soundings which give accurate readings of the treacherous waters. On the shore, impressive detail is depicted, with individual farms named and elegant hachuring showing elevations. Eight batteries are shown via lettered references, with a key at the top right corner which details the numbers and types of canons. Along the right side of the map are the names of the principal land owners of the region, along with a brief description of the area. A large and well-designed dedication by Faden to Lord Percy appears just below.
Blaskowitz's surveys would be used for two printed charts, by Des Barres and Faden respectively. The Faden chart was a much more accomplished production, on a larger sheet and more elaborately engraved (and according to Pedley, costing two and a half times as much at the time of publication). The map was sold separately, as this sectioned case map copy, or within some copies of Faden's North American Atlas.
Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution 34; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, plate 16 and pp. 94-96; Guthorn, pp. 12-14; Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, fig. 17; Phillips, p. 458; Pedley, The Commerce of Cartography, chapter 5.
#25891$18,500.00
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 BONNE, Rigobert (1727-1791)
Theatre de la Guerre en Amerique ave les Iles Antilles
Paris: Chez Lattre, 1779. Copper-engraved map, printed on two sheets joined, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: 29 x 19 1/4 inches.
Scarce American Revolutionary War map, with early manuscript boundary lines added.
"Shows provinces, select towns and cities, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, and relief. Includes some shoals and banks along the coast, navigational hazards and routes of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico" (Sellers and Van Ee).
Bonne first issued this map on two separate sheets in 1771, under the title Partie de l'Amerique Septentrionale. The French involvement in the war prompted much interest in maps of the region and Bonne reissued the map in 1779, as two joined sheets and with a new title as above, to meet that demand. Interestingly, this issue of the map would be published by Jean Lattre, who himself would issue the important first French map of the United States following the Treaty of Peace.
This copy with the interesting manuscript addition of boundary lines dividing the United States from Canada in the north and a boundary line along the Red River in the west and dividing Carolina from Florida.
Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 165; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 779.2.
#25765$1,850.00
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