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 MITCHELL, John (1711-1768). - Georges Louis LE ROUGE (1712-1790)
Amerique septentrionale avec les Routes, Distances en miles, Limites et Etablissements François et Anglois. Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de l'Anglois ... par le Rouge
Paris: le Rouge, rue des Grands Augustins, 1756. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, on 8 uncut sheets (individual sheets: 33 1/4 x 23 inches, if joined would form a single large sheet 59 x 79 inches), with large allegorical cartouche and inset map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador. Small repaired tear, small voids to blank margins of two sheets.
A fine, unsophisticated and uncut example of the rare first French edition and just the second edition overall of Mitchell's monumental mapping of colonial America: among the earliest obtainable editions of the famed map.
"John Mitchell was not a mapmaker by profession, rather he was a medical doctor, natural philosopher, and botanist of considerable merit. Yet his sole cartographic endeavor...was perhaps the greatest produced in the history of America" (Degrees of Latitude).
Mitchell's Map of the British and French Dominions in North America is widely regarded as the most important map in American History. Prepared on the eve of the French & Indian War, it was the second large format map of North America printed by the British and included the best up to date information on the region. Over the next century, it would play a significant role in the resolution of every significant boundary dispute involving the northern border of the then British Colonies and later the United States. It was also the map-of-record at the birth of the United States and continued in this role through several decades in the early life of the country.
John Mitchell, a respected British physician, botanist, chemist, biologist, and surveyor, lived for a time in Virginia, but returned to England in 1746, where he remained. Mitchell initially conceived of his map of North America as the best method of presenting to the British public, in a single large format image of all the colonies, the extent of the French threat to the British claims in North America. Mitchell completed his first draft of the map in 1750. However, because he was limited to publicly available sources of information, this initial effort was rather crude (even in Mitchell's own opinion). But word of Mitchell's work spread, and the Board of Trade and Plantations retained Mitchell to make a new map, using the official manuscript and printed maps and reports in the Board's possession, including maps by Fry and Jefferson, Christopher Gist, George Washington, John Barnwell, and others. The Board also instructed all the colonial governors to send detailed maps and boundary information for Mitchell's use.
Mitchell's map was first published by Andrew Millar in 1755, the year before war broke out with the French. The map is decidedly pro-English in its interpretation of the various boundaries and geographical information depicted on the map, as would be expected for what amounted to thinly veiled pre-war propaganda. In addition to the geographical detail shown on the map, Mitchell included many annotations describing the extent of British and French settlements. He also submitted a report to the Board in 1752, listing the French encroachments and his ideas of ways to encourage British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, as a means of combating French influence in the region.
Mitchell's map shows the British Colonial claims of Virginia, both Carolinas, and Georgia extending beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. In the West, Mitchell's treatment of the lower Missouri is a vast improvement over earlier maps. Regarding the source of the Missouri, Mitchell noted that the Missouri river was reckoned to run westward to the Mountains of New Mexico, as far as the Ohio does eastward, reflecting his belief in symmetrical geography. Mitchell correctly shows the northern branch of the Missouri to be the main branch of the river, although his estimate of the latitude of the river's source is inaccurate. Nonetheless, the information Mitchell's map provided led Meriwether Lewis to explore the Marias River to determine the northern reaches of the Missouri River basin.
The present first French edition, and just the second edition overall, appeared in 1756. The speed with which Le Rouge produced a full-size copy of Mitchell's original is an indication of how important the 1755 map was considered at the time. War in the region meant that consistent, reliable cartographic intelligence was vital. Both the English and French versions went through a number of subsequent editions well into the 1770s. Mitchell's map went on to become the primary political treaty map in American history. Regarded by many authorities as the most important map in the history of American cartography, twenty-one variant states and editions of the map appeared between 1755 and 1781. This copy is a very rare example of the original 1756 first French edition, with the word "Limites" in the title, rather than "Villages" which appears in all the subsequent French editions.
Cf. E. and D.S. Berkeley, Dr. John Mitchell, the Man who made the Map, Chapel Hill 1974, chapters 12 and 13; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, no.293 and pp.47-49; cf. Walter Ristow, "John Mitchell's Map..." pp.102-108, in A la Carte, Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases, Washington 1972; Richard W. Stephenson "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's map" p.110, in A la Carte, Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases, Washington 1972.
#24763 $30,000.00  
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 MITCHELL, John (1711-1768). - Georges Louis LE ROUGE (1712-1790)
Amerique septentrionale avec les Routes, Distances en miles, Villages et Etablissements François et Anglois. Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de l'Anglois ... Corigee en 1776 par M. Hawkins...
Paris: Le Rouge, 1777. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, on 8 sheets (individual sheets: 27 1/4 x 21 inches, if joined would form a single large sheet 59 x 79 inches), with large allegorical cartouche and inset map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador. Good condition, small repaired tear. Housed in a red morocco backed box.
A fine example of a French edition of Mitchell's monumental mapping of Colonial America, a scarce issue published during the American Revolution.
"John Mitchell was not a mapmaker by profession, rather he was a medical doctor, natural philosopher, and botanist of considerable merit. Yet his sole cartographic endeavor...was perhaps the greatest produced in the history of America" (Degrees of Latitude).
Mitchell's Map of the British and French Dominions in North America is widely regarded as the most important map in American History. Prepared on the eve of the French & Indian War, it was the second large format map of North America printed by the British and included the best up to date information on the region. Over the next century, it would play a significant role in the resolution of every significant boundary dispute involving the northern border of the then British Colonies and later the United States. It was also the map-of-record at the birth of the United States and continued in this role through several decades in the early life of the country.
John Mitchell, a respected British physician, botanist, chemist, biologist, and surveyor, lived for a time in Virginia, but returned to England in 1746, where he remained. Mitchell initially conceived of his map of North America as the best method of presenting to the British public, in a single large format image of all the colonies, the extent of the French threat to the British claims in North America. Mitchell completed his first draft of the map in 1750. However, because he was limited to publicly available sources of information, this initial effort was rather crude (even in Mitchell's own opinion). But word of Mitchell's work spread, and the Board of Trade and Plantations retained Mitchell to make a new map, using the official manuscript and printed maps and reports in the Board's possession, including maps by Fry and Jefferson, Christopher Gist, George Washington, John Barnwell, and others. The Board also instructed all the colonial governors to send detailed maps and boundary information for Mitchell's use.
Mitchell's map was first published by Andrew Millar in 1755, the year before war broke out with the French. The map is decidedly pro-English in its interpretation of the various boundaries and geographical information depicted on the map, as would be expected for what amounted to thinly veiled pre-war propaganda. In addition to the geographical detail shown on the map, Mitchell included many annotations describing the extent of British and French settlements. He also submitted a report to the Board in 1752, listing the French encroachments and his ideas of ways to encourage British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, as a means of combating French influence in the region.
Mitchell's map shows the British Colonial claims of Virginia, both Carolinas, and Georgia extending beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. In the West, Mitchell's treatment of the lower Missouri is a vast improvement over earlier maps. Regarding the source of the Missouri, Mitchell noted that the Missouri river was reckoned to run westward to the Mountains of New Mexico, as far as the Ohio does eastward, reflecting his belief in symmetrical geography. Mitchell correctly shows the northern branch of the Missouri to be the main branch of the river, although his estimate of the latitude of the river's source is inaccurate. Nonetheless, the information Mitchell's map provided led Meriwether Lewis to explore the Marias River to determine the northern reaches of the Missouri River basin.
The present French edition appeared in 1777 within Le Rouge's Atlas Ameriquain Septentrional. Le Rouge had first published an edition of the Mitchell map in 1756. The speed with which Le Rouge produced a full-size copy of Mitchell's original is an indication of how important the 1755 map was considered at the time. War in the region meant that consistent, reliable cartographic intelligence was vital. Both the English and French versions went through a number of subsequent editions well into the 1770s. Mitchell's map went on to become the primary political treaty map in American history. Regarded by many authorities as the most important map in the history of American cartography, twenty-one variant states and editions of the map appeared between 1755 and 1781.
McCorkle 777.15; Ristow, A La Carte, p. 112; Tooley p 124; Moreland & Bannister p. 171-2.; Cf. E. and D.S. Berkeley, Dr. John Mitchell, the Man who made the Map, Chapel Hill 1974, chapters 12 and 13; Richard W. Stephenson "Table for identifying variant editions and impressions of John Mitchell's map" p.110, in A la Carte, Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases, Washington 1972.
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 MOLL, Herman (fl. 1678-1732)
A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina. According to the newest and most exact observations
London: "Sold by H. Moll over against Deverux Court on the Strand", 1715. Copper-engraving, with period outline hand-colouring, on two joined sheets, overall size 41 1/2 x 24 7/8 inches. Expert restoration to the upper left side north of Lake Huron.
Rare first issue of the famous Beaver map
"One of the first and most important cartographic documents relating to the dispute between France and Great Britain over boundaries separating their respective American colonies ... The map was the primary exponent of the British position during the period immediately following the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713" (Degrees of Latitude). The British colonies according to British claims are outlined in red, with the French outlined in yellow. All territory south of the St. Lawrence River and eastern Great Lakes is shown as British. Numerous notations relating to territorial claims, Indian tribes, the fur trade, and the condition of the land cover the face of the map. This map shows the early eighteenth century postal routes in the British colonies, and is frequently called the first American postal map.
There are four insets, including a large map of coastal South Carolina, and a plan of Charleston. At lower left is a map of Florida and the Deep South, which is based on a map by Thomas Nairne, the Indian agent for South Carolina. The most striking feature is the large vignette which gives the map its popular name. It consists of an early view of Niagara Falls, with a colony of beavers at work in the foreground. Pritchard holds that the beaver "was an appropriate image for the North American map for two reasons: the animal's importance to the fur trade, and its industrious nature."
Cumming, British Maps pp.6-12; Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps 158; Degrees of Latitude 19; Reinhartz, Herman Moll Geographer pp.18-36; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, Mapping of America pp.138, 144; Stevens and Tree Comparative Cartography, 55 (a, with variant imprint).
#17874$35,000.00
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 MOLL, Herman (fl. 1678-1732)
A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina. According to the newest and most exact observations
London: "Printed and Sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Church-yard, John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhil. and by I. King at ye Globe in ye Poultry near Stocks Market", 1715 [issued circa 1730]. Copper engraving, with period outline hand-colouring, on two joined sheets, overall size 41 1/2 x 24 7/8 inches. Contemporary ink manuscript inscriptions on verso. Expert restoration along the folds.
The famous Beaver map: Stevens and Tree's third state (of 5), the first to show the inset of Carolina divided into counties and with named parishes.
"One of the first and most important cartographic documents relating to the ongoing dispute between France and Great Britain over boundaries separating their respective American colonies ... The map was the primary exponent of the British position during the period immediately following the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713" (Degrees of Latitude). The British colonies according to British claims are outlined in red, with the French outlined in yellow. All territory south of the St. Lawrence River and eastern Great Lakes is shown as British. Numerous notations relating to territorial claims, Indian tribes, the fur trade, and the condition of the land cover the face of the map. This map shows the early eighteenth century postal routes in the British colonies, and is frequently called the first American postal map.
There are four insets, including a large map of Carolina and a plan of Charleston. In this issue, the former shows numerous additions, with Carolina divided into counties and with parishes named for the first time. At lower left is a map of Florida and the Deep South, which is based on a map by Thomas Nairne, the Indian agent for South Carolina. A printed inscription on this inset relating to the Cherokees states: "one of ye kings of this Nation was in England in 1730".
The most striking feature of the map is the large vignette which gives the map its popular name. It consists of an early view of Niagara Falls, with a colony of beavers at work in the foreground. Pritchard holds that the beaver "was an appropriate image for the North American map for two reasons: the animal's importance to the fur trade, and its industrious nature."
Degrees of Latitude, 19; Cumming, British Maps, pp. 6-12; Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, entry 158 and pp. 21-24; Reinhartz, "Herman Moll Geographer," pp. 18-36; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, pp. 138, 144; Stevens & Tree, "Comparative Cartography" 55c, in Tooley, The Mapping of America.
#24762$27,500.00
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 MOLL, Herman (1654-1732)
A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France
London: printed for H. Moll, 1720. Engraved map, period hand-coloring in outline. Sheet size: 24 5/8 x 40 3/8 inches.
A fine copy of this important map of Colonial America, reflecting the boundary disputes between Great Britain and France.
The outline colouring of the map has been specially applied to reflect the political realities in North America at the time. The 15-line engraved "Advertisement" to the right of the Bahamas offers a key to the colouring and reads, in part: "All within the Blew Colour of this Map, shews what is Claim'd by France under the Names of Louisiana, Mississipi &c. according to a French Map published at Paris with the French King's Privelege. The Yellow Colour what they allow ye English. The Red, Spain. The English Claim the Property of Carolina ... Hence any body ma[y] see, how much they would Incroach &c.".
The lengthy engraved text in the panel beneath the title refers Moll's cartographic sources: "A Great Part of this Map is taken from the original Draughts of Mr. [Nathaniel] Blackmore, ... Mr. [Richard] Berisford ... , Capt. [Thomas] Nairn and others". Moll goes on to acknowledge that "the South West Part of Louisiana is done" after Guillaume Delisle's map of 1718 and that he has incorporated "the Division or Bounds according to that Map". The text also touches on the controversy over the various claims to Louisiana Territory and the English claim to Carolina.
"Conflict over control of the Ohio Territory and the Mississippi Valley was reflected in a cartographic war between England and France. In 1718, French mapmaker Guillaume Delisle published Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. For the British, the disturbing feature of Delisle's map was that he significantly reduced the western boundaries of the British colonies along the east coast, thereby adding territory claimed by England to French Louisiana. Two years later, Herman Moll published A New Map of the North parts of America claimed by France, directly challenging Delisle's boundary lines" (Degrees of Latitude p.123).
Cumming British Maps of Colonial America pp.10-12; Cumming The Southeast in Early Maps pp.21-24; Degrees of Latitude 21 ("Only one state of the map is known"); Leighly California as an Island 180; McLaughlin The Mapping of California as an Island 197; Phillips A List of Maps of America p.570; Reinhartz The Cartographer and the Literati-Herman Moll and His Intellectual Circle pp.18-36.
#25766$9,500.00
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 MOLL, Herman (1654-1732)
A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France
London: printed for H. Moll, 1720. Engraved map (sheet size: 25 1/2 x 41 1/8 inches.), hand-colored in outline, with small irregularly-shaped engraved onlay titled "Advertisement" with 14 lines of text mounted to an area to the west of Florida and the Bahamas. In good condition apart from some marginal browning and spotting, occasional small marginal tears.
A previously unrecorded first state of this important map, printed before the addition of the "Advertisement" to the plate.
The outline colouring of the map has been specially applied to reflect the political realities in North America at the time. The unique feature of the present map is that the very important "Advertisement" or key which explains this colouring is only present here as a pasted-on slip. On all other recorded copies of this map this text is an integral part of the printed map. The "Advertisement" reads, in part: "All within the Blew Colour of this Map, shews what is Claim'd by France under the Names of Louisiana, Mississipi &c. according to a French Map published at Paris with the French King's Privelege. The Yellow Colour what they allow ye English. The Red, Spain. The English Claim the Property of Carolina … Hence any body ma[y] see, how much they would Incroach &c.".
The lengthy engraved text in the panel beneath the title refers Moll's cartographic sources "A Great Part of this Map is taken from the original Draughts of Mr. [Nathaniel] Blackmore, ... Mr. [Richard] Berisford ... , Capt. [Thomas] Nairn and others". Moll goes on acknowledge that "the South West Part of Louisiana is done" after Guillaume Delisle's map of 1718 and that he has incorporated "the Division or Bounds according to that Map". The text also touches on the controversy over the various claims to Louisiana Territory and the English claim to Carolina.
"Conflict over control of the Ohio Territory and the Mississippi Valley was reflected in a cartographic war between England and France. In 1718, French mapmaker Guillaume Delisle published Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. For the British, the disturbing feature of Delisle's map was that he significantly reduced the western boundaries of the British colonies along the east coast, thereby adding territory claimed by England to French Louisiana. Two years later, Herman Moll published A New Map of the North parts of America claimed by France, directly challenging Delisle's boundary lines." (Degrees of Latitude p.123).
Cf. Cumming British Maps of Colonial America pp.10-12; cf. Cumming The Southeast in Early Maps pp.21-24; cf. Degrees of Latitude 21 ("Only one state of the map is known"); Leighly California as an Island 180; McLaughlin The Mapping of California as an Island 197; Phillips A List of Maps of America p.570; cf. Reinhartz The Cartographer and the Literati-Herman Moll and His Intellectual Circle pp.18-36.
#20627$15,000.00
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 MOLL, Herman (1654-1732)
To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers...this Map of North America according to ye newest and most exact observations ...
London: "Sold by H. Moll ... I. Bowles ... T. Bowles ... P. Overton ... and by John King ...", [circa 1732]. Copper-engraved map, period handcolouring in outline. Inset view of a codfishery, ten inset maps of various harbors. Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 38 3/4 inches.
Moll's great "Codfish" map of North America
Hermann Moll was, like many an emigré, a zealously patriotic Englishman and cartographical fighter in the globalization contest the European nations conducted from the 15th century into the 20th. Here in one of his superbly characteristic maps of North America, he fights with De L'Isle (the great French mapmaker of the period) about the respective territorial possessions of Britain and France. In contradistinction to De L'Isle's 1718 map, Moll's reduces French Louisiana to a region south of the Ohio River and gives Great Britain Labrador (as New Britain).
The achievement of British dominance would be accomplished through trade, colonialization, war and piracy. Depicting one aspect of British success, Moll includes here a rather detailed depiction of the codfishing industry, including the making of cod liver oil. Throughout the 17th century, the British had the greatest number of fishing boats in the Grand Banks. Dried codfish was a staple of the British Navy, and a favorite throughout Europe.
As naval supremacy requires good charts, this map has ten inset charts of important North and South America ports: from Boston to Cartagena. And finally, for the benefit perhaps of any would-be British privateer , Moll includes (as he did in his map of the West Indies) detailed information about the annual Spanish convoy that wound around the Gulf of Mexico picking up silver, gold and gems from South and Central America.
Moll's "maps of North America and the Eastern Seaboard must have played an important role in shaping the geographical perception of the Americas held by his contemporaries, emphasizing the untaped resources and the wealth of the colonies, and the opportunities for any that would make the passage" (Baynton-Williams).
The present map was part of Herman Moll's magnificent folio work, A New and Compleat Atlas. Moll was the most important cartographer working in London during his era, a career that spanned over fifty years. His origins have been a source of scholarly debate; however, the prevailing opinion suggests that he hailed from the Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Germany. Joining a number of his countrymen, he fled the turmoil of the Scanian Wars for London, and in 1678 is first recorded as working there as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas. It was not long before Moll found himself as a charter member of London's most interesting social circle, which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill. It was at this establishment that speculators met to trade equities (most notoriously South Sea Company shares). Moll's coffeehouse circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these friends, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was later conveyed in his cartographic works, some appearing in the works of these same figures. Moll was highly astute, both politically and commercially, and he was consistently able to craft maps and atlases that appealed to the particular fancy of wealthy individual patrons, as well as the popular trends of the day. In many cases, his works are amongst the very finest maps of their subjects ever created with toponymy in the English language.
This copy an issue published around the time of Moll's death, with the imprint including John Bowles located "at the Black Horse" (1732 and later).
Mclaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 192; Tooley, "California as an Island," 82 in Tooley,The Mapping of America; Goss, The Mapping of North America, p. 118; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America pl. 79; Kurlansky, Cod p. 58-60; cf. Ashley Baynton-Williams, "The World Described" in Map Forum, Issue 1 (Spring 2004); cf. Reinharz, The Cartographer and the Literati - Herman Moll and his Intellectual Circle (Lewiston, 1997).
#25887$9,000.00
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 MOLL, Herman (1654-1732)
To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers...this Map of North America according to ye newest and most exact observations...
London: "Printed for I. Bowles ... T. Bowles ... P. Overton", [circa 1724]. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset view of a codfishery, ten inset maps of various harbors. Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 38 3/4 inches.
An early issue of Moll's great "Codfish" map of North America.
Herman Moll was, like many an emigré, a zealously patriotic Englishman and cartographical fighter in the globalization contest the European nations conducted from the 15th century into the 20th. Here in one of his superbly characteristic maps of North America, he fights with De L'Isle (the great French mapmaker of the period) about the respective territorial possessions of Britain and France. In contradistinction to De L'Isle's 1718 map, Moll's reduces French Louisiana to a region south of the Ohio River and gives Great Britain Labrador (as New Britain).
The achievement of British dominance would be accomplished through trade, colonialization, war and piracy. Depicting one aspect of British success, Moll includes here a rather detailed depiction of the codfishing industry, including the making of cod liver oil. Throughout the 17th century, the British had the greatest number of fishing boats in the Grand Banks. Dried codfish was a staple of the British Navy, and a favorite throughout Europe.
As naval supremacy requires good charts, this map has ten inset charts of important North and South America ports: from Boston to Cartagena. And finally, for the benefit perhaps of any would-be British privateer, Moll includes (as he did in his map of the West Indies) detailed information about the annual Spanish convoy that wound around the Gulf of Mexico picking up silver, gold and gems from South and Central America.
Moll's "maps of North America and the Eastern seaboard must have played an important role in shaping the geographical perception of the Americas held by his contemporaries, emphasizing the untapped resources and the wealth of the colonies, and the opportunities for any that would make the passage" (Baynton-Williams).
The present map was part of Herman Moll's magnificent folio work, A New and Compleat Atlas. Moll was the most important cartographer working in London during his era, a career that spanned over fifty years. His origins have been a source of scholarly debate; however, the prevailing opinion suggests that he hailed from the Hanseatic port city of Bremen, Germany. Joining a number of his countrymen, he fled the turmoil of the Scanian Wars for London, and in 1678 is first recorded as working there as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas. It was not long before Moll found himself as a charter member of London's most interesting social circle, which congregated at Jonathan's Coffee House at Number 20 Exchange Alley, Cornhill. It was at this establishment that speculators met to trade equities (most notoriously South Sea Company shares). Moll's coffeehouse circle included the scientist Robert Hooke, the archaeologist William Stuckley, the authors Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and the intellectually-gifted pirates William Dampier, Woodes Rogers and William Hacke. From these friends, Moll gained a great deal of privileged information that was later conveyed in his cartographic works, some appearing in the works of these same figures. Moll was highly astute, both politically and commercially, and he was consistently able to craft maps and atlases that appealed to the particular fancy of wealthy individual patrons, as well as the popular trends of the day. In many cases, his works are amongst the very finest maps of their subjects ever created with toponymy in the English language.
This copy an early issue with the imprint including John Bowles at his Stocks Market address (i.e. his location between 1723 and 1727). Later issues include his address as "Mercers Hall" (between 1727 and 1731) and "at the Black Horse" (1732 and later). This early issue before the addition of John King to the imprint (circa 1726).
McLaughlin, The Mapping of California as an Island 192; Tooley, "California as an Island," 82 in Tooley, The Mapping of America; Goss, The Mapping of North America, p. 118; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America pl. 79; Kurlansky, Cod p. 58-60; cf. Ashley Baynton-Williams, "The World Described" in Map Forum, Issue 1 (Spring 2004); cf. Reinharz, The Cartographer and the Literati - Herman Moll and his Intellectual Circle (Lewiston, 1997).
#25771$6,000.00
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 MORDEN, Robert (d.1703) and Christopher BROWN
A New Map of the English Empire in America Viz Virginia Maryland Carolina Pennsylvania New York New Jersey New England by Rob: Morden
London: "Sold by Robt. Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill./ And by Christopher Brown at ye Globe/ near the Westend of St. Pauls/ Church: London", [circa 1695]. Copper-engraved map by John Harris, with original outline colour. Paper toned and margins somewhat soiled otherwise in very good condition. Sheet size: 20 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches.
A rare and important map of the American colonies, in the scarce first state.
This is in effect a propaganda map, compiled during the War of the League of Augsburg, or King William's War (1689-97). Morden shows the English American colonies thrusting westward, at the expense of the rival French claims. In addition to the Midwest, much of Canada is shown as English. The English colonies along the Atlantic Seaboard are carefully delineated according to English sources, but Canada, the Mississippi Valley, and the Great Lakes are based on French sources, including the maps of Dablon (1672) and Thevenot (1681). Morden still preserves Lederer's configuration (1672) in his depiction of the interior of the Southeast.
At lower right is a large inset map of the North Atlantic, the vital life line between Britain and its American empire. Just above is the title piece crowned by the Royal Arms, and an inset map of Boston Harbor based on Thomas Pound's A New Mapp of New England from Cape Codd to Cape Sables (1691). The engraver, John Harris was one of the most accomplished members of his profession working in England. The insets are surrounded by decorative acanthus brackets and supports in the arabesque style, a signature motif of the artist. A second state was published in 1719 with the imprint of John Senex.
Provenance: deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Historical Society, 2001
Degrees of Latitude, pp. 358-360; Stevens & Tree, Comparative Cartography, 20a, in Tooley, The Mapping of America; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 695; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, 119; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 564.
#13573$27,500.00
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 MORRIS, Charles (1711-1781) - Thomas JEFFERYS (1719-1771)
A Chart of the Harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia; with Jebucto Bay and Cape Sambro ... Survey'd by order of His Excellency Brigadier General Lawrence, Gouvernor of the Province of Nova Scotia, By Charles Morris, Chief Surveyor
London: "Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer and Jno. Bennett", 25 March 1775. Engraved map. Three columns of text under the heading "Directions for avoiding the Ledges lying to the Eastward & Westward of Sambro Island..." Dedication by Jefferys to the Earl of Halifax. Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 29 1/4 inches.
Rare early maritime chart of the entrance to Halifax harbor, engraved by Jefferys after noted Massachusetts soldier and surveyor Charles Morris, among the founders of Halifax.
In 1746, Charles Morris, an American surveyor, received a commission to raise a Massachusetts regiment and proceed to Nova Scotia as part of the British American attempt to protect the region from French encroachment. Morris was present at the bloody Battle of Grand Pre, a disastrous defeat of the Massachusetts force. Morris, one of few survivors, returned to Boston only to be sent back to Nova Scotia in 1748 to acertain the locations of French forces and scout possible regions for British settlement. The results of this expedition led directly to the founding of the city of Halifax by a British force under the command of Governor Edward Cornwallis. Morris accompanied Cornwallis and was charged with laying out the new town. Following the capture of Louisbourg, and with the region firmly in control of the British, Morris would settle in Halifax, becoming its first Chief Justice, and as evidenced from this map, its Chief Surveyor.
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. Jefferys therefore engraved this chart after Morris's surveys, first publishing it in his General Topography (London, 1768). The chart would subsequently be reissued by Sayer and Bennett in their North American Pilot, the present copy being from the 1775 first edition of that great nautical atlas.
Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 281 (incorrectly dating the map 1777).
#25611$3,750.00
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