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 MORTIER, Pierre (1661-1711)
Carte General de la Caroline. Dresse sur les Memoires le plus Nouveaux par le Sieua [sic.] S**
Amsterdam: P. Mortier, [1700]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour. Sheet size: 23 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches.
A fine copy of the first map of the Carolinas to be printed outside of England, including an inset of Charleston with the names and positions of early plantations along the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, present here in the first state
This is the first map of the Carolinas to be printed outside of England, and was included as part of Pierre Mortier's Suite de Neptune François, published in Amsterdam in 1700, and often incorrectly attributed to Nicolas Sanson. It is directly derived from the extremely rare A New Map of Carolina of 1685 by John Thornton, Robert Morden and Philip Lea. All topographical details are identical to those of its antecedent, however most of the place names have been Gallicized. Also, "The table of settlers" has been omitted in favour of the title caption. Amusingly a "Charle Ville ou Charles Towne" appears written in large letters near Cape Fear, while the actual Charles Towne is labeled in small letters further down the coast. The present map includes an inset detail of Charleston and the Cooper and Ashley Rivers with the names and positions of various early plantations marked along their banks.
'Carolina was established in 1663 when Charles II granted the province to eight favorites, known as the Lord Proprietors, who had helped him regain the throne of England. The original grant included the territory between the 31st degree to 36 1/2 degrees north latitude, from Jekyll Island, Georgia, to Curritiuck Inlet, North Carolina. Two years later, the tract was enlarged to include the land between the 29th and the 31st degrees north latitude, thus adding a large portion of Florida. The grant extended west to the Pacific Ocean' (Degrees of Latitude, p.93).
Burden, The Mapping of North America II, 767; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, 120; Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici IV, M.Mor 7-33
#19785 $6,500.00  
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 MORTIER, Pierre (1661-1711)
Carte Nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise Contenant la Virginie, Mary-Land, Caroline, Pensylvania, Nouvelle Iorck, N: Iarsey, N: France, et les Terres Nouvellement Decouerte. Dresse sure les Relations les Plus Nouvelles par le Sieur S...
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, [circa 1700]. Copper engraved map, engraved by Romein de Hooghe, on two sheets joined, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset plan of Boston Harbor. Sheet size: 25 1/4 x 37 inches.
Mortier's map of English America from his famed Neptune François.
Although the title suggests this map of English North America to be based on Sanson, it is in fact "drawn directly from Robert Morden's significant New Map of the English Empire in America, c. 1698. The most notable feature here is the mountain range extending from the Florida peninsula northwards into Michigan ... Despite many of the toponyms being translated into French, the map's English origins are clearly seen, including Copper Mine near present day Chicago, and Mines of Iron besides the Ohio River, both originating in the Thevenot, 1681. The unusual depiction of Green Bay, the broader northern portion of the Delaware peninsula, the boundaries of Pennsylvania extending far to the north, the altered Cape Cod and the inset plan of Boston harbour are all features found on the Morden map. Indeed, this is the first printing of a plan of an English colonial city in a non-English map" (Burden).
The general title and imprint appears in the upper left corner of this two sheet map; however, a second title (Partie Orientale de l'Amerique Angloise) and imprint appears in the upper right corner, allowing Mortier to use the same map joined, as here, in his Neptune François, or as separate sheets in his Atlas Nouveau.
Burden, The Mapping of North America II: 765; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 695.7; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 517; Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps 129.
#25670$4,000.00
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 MOUZON, Henry (d.1777)
An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian Frontiers, Shewing in a distinct manner all the Mountains, Rivers, Swamps, Marshes, Bays, Creeks, Harbours, Sandbanks and Soundings on the Coasts, with the Roads and Indian Paths as well as the Boundary or Provincial Lines, the Several Townships and other divisions of the land in both the Provinces; the whole from Actual Surveys by Henry Mouzon and others.
London: R. Sayer & J. Bennet, May 30th, 1775 [but 1776]. Copper-engraved map, engraved by Samuel Turner Sparrow, on four sheets of two joined pairs, each pair measuring 21 1/2 x 55 7/8 inches, and if joined, would measure 43 x 55 7/8 inches, with original outline colour, in very good condition.
A rare monumental work, one of the finest and most important maps of the Carolinas, which "appeared on the eve of the American Revolution, and its up-to-date geography made it the most widely consulted map of the area used in the war effort" (Degrees of Latitude, p.209).
Arguably, the most handsome map of the Carolinas ever made, very finely engraved with inset maps of Charleston Harbor and Port Royal Harbor in the lower left, the map is so detailed and geographically advanced that it remained the seminal map of the Carolinas for the following two generations. Its appearance in the days leading up to the American Revolution ensured that it was the primary map used by field commanders on both sides as the dramatic events of the conflict unfolded in the Carolinas. This is demonstrated by the fact that the very copies used by three of the most important commanders are today preserved in libraries. George Washington's copy, folded and mounted on cloth, resides in the collection of The American Geographical Society. The French commander, the Comte de Rochambeau's copy in the Library of Congress; and British commander, Sir Henry Clinton's copy is housed in the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
Henry Mouzon produced a map that was one of the finest expressions of American cartography in the years leading up to the Revolution; however, he remains one of the most enigmatic of all the mapmakers of this period. All that is known of him is that this masterly work was devised by Henry Mouzon of Craven County, who was a professional surveyor, and was described as having left "Sundry maps and two copper plates" in the inventory of his estate after his death in April, 1777. Mouzon first announced his intention to publish a map depicting just South Carolina in an advertisement in The South Carolina and American General Advertiser in the Spring of 1774. However, as Mouzon proceeded he elected to undertake the much greater endeavour of covering both Carolinas. The Carolinas were officially divided into two separate colonies, North and South, in 1730.
Mouzon's great work was first published by the leading London firm of Sayer & Bennett in 1775. Upon publication, it became clear that Mouzon had surpassed all of his predecessors in terms of scope and accuracy of the region depicted. He largely derived his portrayal of South Carolina from the two excellent recent maps by the military engineer James Cook, A Map of South Carolina (1771) and A Map of the Province of South Carolina (1773). He was also well apprised of William De Brahm's monumental Map of South Carolina and a Part of Georgia (1757). Mouzon importantly improved upon these sources by providing greater definition to the rivers and more detail regarding the native settlements located to the west of the Cherokee Line. With regards to his depiction of North Carolina, Mouzon used John Abraham Collet's magnificent A Compleat Map of North-Carolina (1770) as a basis, but superseded it by adding the delineation of more counties and a far more accuarte delineation of the Catawba River and its tributaries. It would also seem that Mouzon consulted an alternate source for the depth soundings noted off of the coastline, as the hydrographic information is decidedly different from that used by Collet.
This map exists in three states, of which the present copy represents the second state and which is distinguished from the former by the addition of "Fort Sullivan" to the inset of Charleston Harbour in the map's lower right. It was included in the 1776 edition of Thomas Jefferys' American Atlas, one of the most important works in the history of American cartography.
Cumming, North Carolina in Maps, pp.21-22; Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, 450; Guthorn, British Maps of the American Revolution, 83/1 & 150/13; Degrees of Latitude, 44; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, p.187; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, p.298; Stevens & Tree, 'Comparative Cartography,' 11 (citing only the first and third states), in Tooley, The Mapping of America.
#19721$22,500.00
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 MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1488-1552)
Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tabula
[Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1542]. Woodcut map (in excellent condition, faint soiling at centerfold). Sheet size: 11 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches.
A very rare first-state example of Münster's highly-important map of the New World, from the second edition of his celebrated Geographia Universalis, and an iconic masterpiece of Renaissance cartography.
This map, Novae Insule XVII, Nova Tabula, which is of great epistemological importance, depicts the immense lands newly discovered in the Western Hemisphere during the preceding two generations. Sebastian Münster's use of the term "Americam" on the map, in addition to the hemisphere's designation as the "Novus Orbis" (New World), helped to solidify America as the name for the New World. This is also the earliest printed map to use the name "Mare Pacificum" for the Pacific Ocean, first discovered by Balboa in 1513. South America is much more clearly defined and accurately drawn than North America, as it was the object of greater European exploration. The Portuguese flag is shown flying over the South Atlantic and the Spanish banner flies over her possessions in the Caribbean, alluding to the papal Edict of Tordesillas (1494), which divided the world between the two Iberian powers. The Straits of Magellan are named and Magellan's ship, Victoria, is shown in the Pacific Ocean. A woodcut of a pyre with a leg hanging from a tree limb identifies the region where "Canibali" live in the eastern bulge of South America, now known as Brazil, in light of the vivid tales of Amerigo Vespucci. The area now encompassed by Argentina is called "Regio Gigantum" in honor of the gargantuan Patagonians that Magellan's men reported meeting there. Several islands are shown in the Caribbean, including Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica, while the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is also shown as an island. The only place named in what is now the United States is "Terra Florida," having been discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513. The French territories in Canada, "Francisca," discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1534, is shown lying far to the east of the rest of North America. Münster showed North America narrowing into a slender isthmus in the area of modern North Carolina. This was due to Giovanni di Verrazzano's mis-identification of the Outer Banks of North Carolina as "Oriental Sea" that led to Cathay and the Spice Islands, and this led to greater interest in the exploration of the Atlantic Coast of North America. "Zipangri" (Japan) is located in the middle of the Pacific amidst 7,446 islands following the tales of Marco Polo.
Münster was a brilliant polymath and one of the most important intellectuals of the Renaissance era. Educated at Tübingen, his surviving college notebooks, Kollegienbuch, reveal a mind of insatiable curiosity, especially with regards to cosmography. Münster later became a professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg, and then from 1529 at the University of Basel. In the 1530s, he turned his attentions to translating Ptolemy's Geography, adding new material that related to the lands newly discovered in the Americas and Asia. The result was the publication of his highly regarded Geographia Universalis, first printed in 1540, of which the present map of the New World was by far its most celebrated component. The present map is from the second edition, but still represents the first-state of the map, as the same unaltered woodblock from the initial printing was employed in the production of the second edition. Münster was also a trend-setter in his ideas regarding design and layout of maps, and he was one of the first to create space on his woodblocks for the insertion of place names in metal type. Münster later published his Cosmographia (1544, revised 1550), a monumental encyclopedic book of contemporary knowledge and legend that became one of the most widely read books in Europe.
"Munster's map of the New World was probably the single most widely distributed map of America of the age. His rendering of a single land mass, the confirmation of the name America ... combine to make it an important step in the cartographic history of the region" (Martin & Martin).
Burden, Mapping of North America I, 12 (Latin text, state 1): Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada I:1b; Suárez, Shedding the Veil, pp.81-85. pl.16. Cf. Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, p.45, pl.18; Cf. Skelton, Decorative Printed Maps, p.40; Suárez, Early Mapping of the Pacific, p.49; Tooley, Mapping & Mapmakers, p.112, pl.80; Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, p.67, plate 2.
#19856$15,000.00
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 NORMAN, John (engraver)
Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill, in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775
[Boston: 1781]. Copper-engraved plan. Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches.
A very rare plan of the first formal conflict of the Revolutionary War, printed in Boston during the war by one of the most important of all early American map-makers.
This plan is here in its most sought after form: the first American edition of an image which was adapted from an inset on Sayer & Bennett's The Seat of War in New England published in London in 1775. The present plan was originally issued bound into the very rare first American edition of James Murray's An Impartial History of the War in America (Boston: 1781-1782).
The area covered includes all of Boston and Charlestown. Charlestown is in flames following a bombardment by the British and the final phase of the Battle of Bunker`s Hill is at its height. The British regular troops (having been repulsed twice) are advancing on the American redoubt, the famous "rail fence," and the Continental irregulars under William Prescott and Israel Putnam. A Royal Naval squadron are shown firing into the American positions from the Charles River and Boston Harbor. An integral engraved key names all the most important Boston streets and other locations, and lists the sites of the fires that were doing such damage.
The present work was one of the first produced by John Norman. He was born in England in 1748, but by May 1774 was advertising himself in Pennsylvania as an "Architect and Landscape Engraver". He moved to Boston in 1781, and later in his career went on to make his mark as one of the pioneer American mapmakers who moved quickly to fill the gap left in the market by the collapse of the supply of English-made maps to the newly-independent United States. His most famous subsequent work is the American Pilot first published in Boston in 1791.
Cf. Nebenzahl Atlas of the American Revolution p.55 (English issue only); Nebenzahl Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution 32; Stauffer 2360; Wheat & Brun 241.
#21594$6,500.00
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 OTTENS, Reinier (1698-1750) & Josua OTTENS (1704-65)
Carte Des Possessions Angloises & Francoises Du Continent De L'Amerique Spetentionale...
Amsterdam: R. and J. Ottens, [1763]. Engraved map, full period hand-colouring. Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches.
Unrecorded issue of the Ottens map of the French and English possessions, published after the Treaty which ended the French and Indian War.
In 1755, the Ottens issued a Dutch version of Jean Palairet's important map. The map showed the French and English territorial claims on the eve of the French and Indian War, with the colouring reflecting those claims. A unrecorded second issue of the map was published, however, following the Treaty of Paris which ended the war. In that issue, as in this copy, the date has been removed from the title and the colouring keys removed from either side of the scale of miles. More importantly, the colouring on the map reflects the new boundaries following the war: the English colonies are extended to the Mississippi, Louisiana is no longer coloured to be owned by France (the treaty ceding this vast region to Spain), a hashed boundary line now appears running the length of the Mississippi and extending northwest into the unexplored region presumed to be its source and a hashed boundary now divides Newfoundland and separates Labrador from British Canada.
A very rare issue of the map reflecting the changing geo-political boundaries following the French and Indian War.
Sellers & Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 58 (1755 issue); McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 755.9 (1755 issue); Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 575 (1755 issue).
#25597$2,750.00
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 OTTENS, Reinier (1698-1750) & Josua OTTENS (1704-65)
Carte Des Possessions Angloises & Francoises Du Continent De L'Amerique Spetentionale...
Amsterdam: R. and J. Ottens, 1755. Engraved map, full period hand-colouring. Sheet size: 22 3/4 x 26 inches.
First issue of the Ottens map of the French and English possessions, published on the eve of the French and Indian War.
In 1755, Ottens issued a Dutch version of Jean Palairet's important map. The map showed the French and English territorial claims on the eve of the French and Indian War, with the colouring reflecting those claims. The English possessions are shown in yellow, with much of the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi shown in pink reflecting territory occupied by English settlers or "peuples allies de l'Angleterre." The French claims are coloured in green, encompassing much of Canada and all of a vast Louisiana. French forts are circled in red and a red boundary line extends through Acadia to Lake Ontario. A second issue of the map was published following the Treaty of Paris which ended the war. In that issue, the date has been removed from the title and the colouring keys removed from either side of the scale of miles and the hand colouring on the map reflects the new boundaries following the war.
A rare and colourful map of North America published on the eve of the war.
Sellers & Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 58; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 755.9; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 575
#25598$2,400.00
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 OTTENS, Reinier (1698-1750) & Josua OTTENS (1704-65)
Grand Theatre de la Guerre en Amerique Suivant les Plus Novelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francois & Hollandois mis au jour par R. & I. Ottens.
[Amsterdam]: R. & J. Ottens, [1740]. Engraved map, with 8 inset maps, on 6 joined sheets, fine contemporary hand-colouring. Very good condition apart from expert repairs to splits at folds and creases where the map was folded. Sheet size: 35 3/4 x 64 inches.
A spectacular large-scale map of the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Guiana, the West Indies, and whole of Central America: a graphic reminder of the War of Jenkins' Ear.
As its title suggests, this spectacular map depicts the full American theatre of the war with eight insets showing the principal ports of the region: 1) A Draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour; 2) La Havane; 3) Plan de la Ville Espagnole de S. Domingue; 4) Harbourg [sic.] de Porto Bello; 5) Plan de la Baye de Carthagena; 6) Nouvelle Carte de L'Isle de Curacao; 7) Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville d'Acapulco; 8) Plan de la Vera-Cruz. The inset of the harbour of Porto Bello is after Popple and the chart of St. Augustine is copied from Moll's West Indies.
The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1742) took its name from Robert Jenkins, captain of the "Rebecca", who claimed that the Spanish had cut off his ear in 1731. Public opinion forced Robert Walpole's government to declare war on 23 October 1739, after Jenkins ear was produced, in a moment of high drama during a debate in the House of Commons. A year later the war merged into the War of the Austrian Succession. The stated reason for the war was the supposed Spanish mistreatment of English seamen; the war, however, is seen as resulting from the commercial rivalry between the Spanish and British in the Caribbean basin.
The publishing history of the map is complicated by the fact that it appears to have been issued as the sheets were completed presumably in a rush by the publishers to capitalise on the interest in the region. The two middle sheets were made available on their own (under the title Nova Isthmi Americani, qui et Panamiensis item Dariensis, Tabula) and advertised by Reinier and Joshua Ottens in the Amsterdamsche Courant on May 12, 1740. The next two sheets were first advertised on 6 October 1740. By 10 June 1741, the full six sheets were available: they were advertised at a price of 48 stuyvers (see Van der Krogt, 'Advertenties').
BLMC K.123.9 a-f; NMM B6177/2; Phillips Atlases 3495: 114-119.
#24628$17,500.00
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 PALAIRET, Jean (1697-1774) and Thomas KITCHIN (1718-1784)
Carte des Possessions Angloises & Françoises du Continent de L'Amérique Septentrionale
London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1755 (but 1757 or 1758). Copper-engraved map by Thomas Kitchin, with full original colour, with contemporary manuscript additions, lower centerfold strengthened outside of image area, in very good condition. Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches.
A great French and Indian War map from Palairet's 'Atlas méthodique.'
This is Palairet's most important map, a fascinating and artistically virtuous depiction of the political situation as it existed at the beginning of the French and Indian War (1756-63). The map colourfully depicts the British and French claims in North America and the unaligned territories in between. The map also includes the westward heading, parallel lines of each British colonies' right of expansion, as granted by one or another Stuart King, extending to the Pacific; all of which, of course, run through lands claimed by France , and presently inhabited by Native tribes. On a more tactical level, the map locates French forts from Nova Scotia to forts on the Missouri and Mississippi. In other words, it is a map that sets the scene for the war just beginning.
Despite the French title, Palairet lived in Great Britain and worked for the Royal Family. The map is somewhat partial to Britain, which is shown to possess all of the eastern seaboard north of Spanish Florida up to the south bank of the St. Lawrence River - which in reality lay at the heart of New France. Southern Ontario and the region between the Appalachians and the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers is shown as disputed territory between Britain and France. These regions France considered her own. The map allows French Louisiana, comprising the land west of the Illinois and Mississippi, and the area from the Mississippi Delta to Mobile.
As noted below the Explication, this issue of the map features a hand-drawn line in red ink from Bay Vert in Nova Scotia to Lake Ontario, a new 'line of control' that reflects French advances after victories in the first two years of the war. Cutting across Nova Scotia, Maine and New Hampshire, it turns south to include Lake George and Lake Champlain and most of the land ruled by the Iroquois Confederacy. All the French forts in North America have been circled as well in red ink. These revisions, made in the midst of war by one of the publishers, make this state of the map particularly intriguing.
This map is based on John Mitchell's immensely influential A Map of the British Colonies in North America, published in 1755. The present map was engraved by Thomas Kitchin, one of London's most esteemed engravers and cartographers. It is adorned by an attractive rococo cartouche.
The designation of states of this map will require future bibliographical clarification. The present map is an unrecorded state: dated 1755 and including "Sayer" as one of the publishers, but not including "par Palairet" (as in later states), nevertheless, reflecting events that took place in 1756 and 1757 (victories at Lake Ontario and the taking of Fort William Henry on Lake George).
Jean Palairet was born in Montauban, France, but emigrated to England where he became a French tutor to the children of George II. He later wrote several informative books on arithmetic, language, arts and sciences, and geography. The present map is from the second edition of Palairet's greatest work, the Atlas méthodique, a magnificent cartographical demonstration, in which landmasses are shown in various stages of political definition.
McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 755.22; Phillips, Atlases in the Library of Congress, 3503, map 14; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 56; Stevens & Tree, 'Comparative Cartography', 18; in Tooley, Mapping of America
#19713$4,750.00
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 PHELIPPEAUX, Rene (1748-1784)
Carte Generale des Colonies Angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale ... d'apres les manuscrits de plusieurs auteurs Angloises, pour servir de suite au Theatre de la Guerre par M. Brion de la Tour ...
Paris: chez Esnauts et Rapilly, 1778. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset map of Florida and the Caribbean. Sheet size: 20 3/4 x 30 1/8 inches.
Rare separately-issued map of the British Colonies during the American Revolution.
France's entry into the American War of Independence in 1778 engendered great interest among the French public for maps of the region. Phelippeaux here depicts the theatre of war, showing the region from Hudson's Bay in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south and far west well beyond the Mississippi River. Cartographically, the map generally follows John Mitchell's famous map, depicting the region in good detail, with many towns, roads, forts and Indian villages identified. French Louisiana extends eastwards as far as the Appalachian Mountains and westward well into territories claimed by Spain; the original British Colonial grant for Virginia and Carolina are shown extending westward to the edge of the map. The cession of Louisiana west of the Mississippi to Spain is not depicted. However, the cession of Upper Louisiana to the British under the 1763 Treaty of Paris, is clearly shown.
The decorative cartouche, engraved by E. Voysard, shows the title on a banner hung from two trees, with battle flags on either side and a large cannon and battery in the foreground.
The title suggests that this "Carte Generale" was issued as a sister map to Brion de la Tour's "Carte du Théatre de la Guerre entre les Anglais et les Américains: Dressée d'après les Cartes Anglaises les plus modernes" (1777).
Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 151; cf. McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 777.18.
#25617$4,750.00
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