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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
 
 
ARROWSMITH, Aaron (1750-1823)

Map of America by A. Arrowsmith ... Engraved by W. West, the Hills by H. Wilson

London: 1804 [paper watermarked 1804]. Copper-engraved folding map, in twenty four sections backed onto linen and linen-edged as issued, with full period hand-colouring. In excellent condition apart from some light offsetting. Contained within a contemporary red straight-grained morocco two-part slipcase. Sheet size: 47 11/16 x 57 3/4 inches.

First issue of this important map of North and South America, published just after the Louisiana Purchase. This copy with lovely full original colour, and with intriguing manuscript annotations in the Arctic, tracing a route through Baffin's Bay to the mouth of the Coppermine River and identifying the location of Melville Island.

Published just before the start of a decade of discovery (Lewis & Clark, Pike, Long, and others), this map includes information provided by the various voyages to the Northwest Coast of America by Captain James Cook, as well as Vancouver, Meares, La Perouse and others. One of the most recent and important of the sources to provide information about the interior was provided by Sir Alexander Mackenzie's 1789 and 1793 journeys of exploration in the Canadian Northwest and through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. Early editions of this map (like the present example) also exemplify the level of information available just prior to the explorations by Alexander von Humboldt.

The present map is the first issue. The Missouri River is shown extending north of its true source, and the Columbia River is also incorrectly located. In California, the Missions are named, and numerous Mississippi Valley forts are also shown. This copy is a variant of Stevens and Tree's first issue, the present copy on paper watermarked "Edmeades & Pine 1804."

There is an intriguing addition in pencil in the upper quarter of the map: the route taken by a ship or ship-board voyager is marked in pencil. Starting in England, the route travels round Cape Farewell, up the length of Baffins Bay through Alderman Jones Sound, on to Melville Island and then south to the mouth of the Coppermine River. As Melville Island was not discovered until William Parry's 1819-20 expedition, this manuscript addition post-dates those years. The style of the hand writing and route marked suggest a possible link to one of the many Franklin-search expeditions that were sent out after the disappearance of the Erebus and Terror in 1845.

Aaron Arrowsmith was the founder of one of the leading London map publishing houses in the early part of the nineteenth century. He came to London about 1770 from Durham, his birthplace, and worked as a surveyor for John Cary. In 1790 he set up his own business in Long Acre and soon established an international reputation as a specialist in compiling maps recording the latest discoveries in all parts of the world. He produced, and constantly revised, a great number of large-scale maps, many issued individually as well as in atlas form. After his death the business passed to his sons, Aaron and Samuel, and later to his nephew John who maintained his uncle's reputation, becoming a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Goss, The Mapping of North America 70; Rumsey 2286 (1811 issue); Stevens & Tree, "Comparative Cartography" 1a, in Tooley, The Mapping of America; Tooley Map 110-2; Map Collector's Circle 68

#24646$4,500.00
 
 
BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)

Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale Depuis le 28 Degré de Latitude jusqu'au 72

Paris: J. N. Bellin, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in very good condition, repairs to upper left cartouche, official stamp of the "Depot de la Marine". Sheet size: 25 1/2 x 37 inches.

A very important and highly attractive large-scale map of North America by one of the eighteenth-century's greatest cartographers.

The present map is one of the most fascinating and influential maps of North America to be made in the years shortly before the voyages of James Cook ushered in a new era of exploration that defined the west coast of the continent. This is also one of the last maps to depict the Franco-American empire, which was then at its greatest extent, immediately before it was entirely lost to Britain and Spain in the Seven Years War (1756-63).

The map embraces the entire region from the northern reaches of the Gulf of Mexico up to the lower regions of the Canadian Arctic, and extends from California in the southwest to Greenland and Iceland in the north Atlantic. Critically, this map is perhaps the finest record of the travels of the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varrennes, the Sieur de La Vérendrye and his sons, François and Louis. The La Vérendryes explored the heart of the continent from the upper Missouri River basin to the Rockies from 1731 to 1742. They followed the "Assiniboile" (Assiniboine) River deep into the Prairies into modern-day Alberta. Further to the south, they explored the country of the Mandan tribe in the Dakotas and Montana, and the map notes that the partially delineated "Riv. des Mantans" was indeed not the source of the Missouri River. The Rockies are indicated by the notation of the "Montagne de Pierre Brillante" (the Mountain of the Shining Stone), a native name inspired by the gleaming snow-capped peaks that led the range to be known as the 'Shining Mountains' before they acquired their modern name. The massive lakes of Manitoba, such as "Lac Ouinipique" (Lake Winnipeg) are delineated, however the map shows the great rivers to their north as running into the lakes, when in reality these rivers flowed into Hudson's Bay. Various French fur trading posts, such as the "Fort de La Reine" and "Fort Charles" are located on the waterways of the interior. The La Vérendryes maintained notably excellent relations with the Cree and Assiniboine peoples, however language difficulties caused the Frenchmen to misinterpret geographical information that was conveyed to them by the natives, and this both created new and reinforced existing mythologies regarding the lands beyond the Rockies. While a large notation indicates that it is not known whether the area in the northwestern portion of their map is land or sea, an area of undefined parameters is labeled as "La Mer de l'Ouest". This imaginary basin was conceived of by mapmakers in the late seventeenth-cenury and the La Vérendryes thought that a 'River of the West' connected this sea to the Pacific through one of two inlets that were allegedly discovered by Spanish mariners. These two locations are noted on the map along with the dates of their discoveries as the "Entrée de Martin d'Aguilar 1602" and the "Entrée de Juan de Fuca 1592," the latter approximating the location of an actual strait that still goes by the same name. The portrayal of California notes Sir Francis Drake's discovery of San Francisco Bay in 1578 and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's naming of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1542. Further north, an isolated strip identifies the coastline of what is now the Alaskan Panhandle, as discovered by the Russian mariners Vitus Bering and Alexei Chrikov in 1741. The advanced coverage of the Spanish territory of New Mexico and the Mississippi Basin, the latter comprising the French colony of Louisiana, is based on renderings by Guillaume de L'Isle and Jean-Baptiste D'Anville respectively. Bellin's depiction of the Great Lakes and eastern Canada is the same as that conveyed in his celebrated contemporary regional maps of the subjects. All of the Thirteen British colonies of the eastern seaboard are shown in great detail. The great artistic virtue of the map is confirmed by its adornment with two large cartouches lavishly decorated in the French rococco style.

Bellin, then the official hydrographer to Louis XV, and master of the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de La Marine, had access to the most advanced cartographic resources available to the French state. The present map is one of his finest works, and was included as part of the L'Hydrographie Française, a great sea atlas, published by Bellin in two volumes from 1755 to 1766. It was also sold separately, as indicated in the lower right corner of the map for a price of "Cinquante Sols." Bellin was so highly regarded that the British (who were almost always at war with France) made him a member of their Royal Society.

Heidenreich & Dahl, The Map Collector, Vol.19 (1982), p.5; Tooley, Map Collectors' Circle 96, 764; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 582.

#19705$3,000.00
 
 
[CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham (1684-1743)]

Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi ... de la Floride, de la Louisiane, de la Virginie, de la Marie-Lande, de la Pensilvanie, du Nouveau Jersay, de la Nouvelle Yorck, de la Nouv. Angleterre ...

[Amsterdam: l'Honore & Châtelain, 1719]. Copper-engraved map. Inset map and view of Quebec in the lower right, large inset of the Mississippi Delta and Mobile Bay in the upper left. Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 20 5/8 inches.

Fine example of Henri Chatelain's decorative map of the inhabited parts of North America, based upon Nicholas De Fer's landmark wall map.

This map includes an important inset at the top left showing a relatively large scale mapping of the Mississippi Delta and Mobile Bay based upon the 1699 voyage of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Heidenreich and Dahl surmised that the original four sheet De Fer map was issued to promote the Compagnie Francoise Occident. The settlement was initially successful in promoting French emigration to America. However, the financing of the company, conceived by John Law to help finance the debt left by Louis XIV, led to a wild burst of speculation and ultimate collapse, often referred to as the Mississippi Bubble.

This map was first issued in Chatelain's Atlas Historique, published between 1705 and 1720. Chatelain's one sheet version of De Fer's map proved very successful and was copied by Van Keulen and Ottens.

NMM G246:1/3; Verner & Stuart Stubbs, The North Part of America 11; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 719.4; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada332.

#25665$1,800.00
 
 
CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria (1650-1718)

America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte fin all' anno 1688

Venice: V. M. Coronelli, [1690]. Copper-engraved map, on two joined sheets, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 24 x 35 inches.

A superlative impression of Coronelli's important and innovative map: a cornerstone map of North America and the American west.

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, a Venetian scholar and Minorite Friar, became one of the most celebrated map and globe makers of his era. Throughout his industrious life he produced more than one-hundred terrestrial and celestial globes, several hundred maps, and a wealth of cartographic publications. In 1683, he completed the Marly Globes for Louis XIV, the largest and most magnificent globes ever made. In 1684 he founded the Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the first geographical society, and was appointed Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. He published two atlases, the Atlante Veneto (Venice, 1691) and the Isolario (1696-98), and compiled the first encyclopedia to be arranged alphabetically.

This magnificent map of North America, published in the Atlante Veneto, is widely considered to be one of Coronelli's finest maps, and is cartographically similar to the scene depicted on his famous globe of 1688. Printed initially on two separate sheets, the present example has been carefully joined to form a wonderful unified image. The map is beautifully preserved in its uncoloured state, as originally intended. Artistically, it is a masterpiece of late Baroque engraving. Its title cartouche, featuring scenes of gods blessing this era of European expansion evinces the sumptuous style of Coronelli's Venice. Finely engraved scenes of native Americans and real or imagined beasts adorn the land and seas.

Apart from displaying a fine aesthetic sense, Coronelli has rendered the continent with far greater geographical detail than his contemporaries, having benefited enormously from his favour at the French court and his publishing partnership with Paris cartographer Jean-Baptiste Nolin. The Great Lakes are drawn with unrivalled accuracy, drawing on information gleaned in 1673 by the Quebecois explorer Louis Jolliet, and his traveling companion, the French-born Jesuit Jacques Marquette. The Mississippi basin is rendered with great detail, reflecting French discoveries, most notably those by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on his first expedition of 1679-82. This map depicts La Salle's dramatic misplacement of the mouth of the Mississippi 600 miles to the west of its true location.

Importantly, it is on the western portion of the map where Coronelli has added the most significant amount of new information, drawn mostly from a highly important manuscript map by Diego Dionisio de Peñalosa Briceño y Berdugo, which included numerous previously unrecorded place names and divided the Rio Grande into the Rio Norte and the Rio Bravo in the south. The manuscript map was probably originally prepared by Peñalosa between 1671 and 1687 as part of his attempts to interest the French King Louis XIV in his plans to mount a military expedition against New Spain. The most prominent geographical detail of the map is California's appearance as a massive island, this map being one of the best renderings of this beloved misconception. The precise geographical details are enlivened by the presence of numerous captions noting discoveries or details of the terrain.

"Although continuing serious errors such as depicting California as an island and his incorrect drawing of the Mississippi River, Coronelli's career marked a step forward through the slow but steady recording of the explorations that brought Texas into the limelight of European politics" (Martin & Martin).

Burden, The Mapping of North America II, 643; Burden, Mapping the West, pp.43-47; Cumming,The Exploration of North America, p.148; Leighly, California as an Island, 88; Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest , p.87, plate 12; McLaughlin, California as an Island, 103; Portinaro & Knirsch, The Cartography of North America, pl.CII; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 795; Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 548; Tooley, The Mapping of America p.125; Cf. Tooley, Maps & Map-Makers (1979 ed.), p. 21; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West I, 70

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D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782) - Thomas JEFFERYS (1719-71)

North America From the French of Mr. D'Anville Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio Illustrated with Geographical and Historical Remarks

London: Thomas Jefferys, [1755]. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Text in three columns below the cartouche, headed "English Title to their Settlements on the Continent." Two columns of text in the upper left corner, headed "French Encroachments." Provenance: Judge C. C. Baldwin (manuscript inscription in the lower margin dated 1894).

First issue of this important map published during the French and Indian War.

Stevens and Tree's first state, with the Jefferys imprint, and without the addition of two lines at the end of the third column of text, reading: "The Boundaries of the Provinces since the Conquest of Canada are laid down in this Map as settled by the King in Council."

The text in the upper left corner provides a chronology of French depredations in the region from the end of the 17th century; likewise, the text in the lower right corner provides a chronology to validate the British claims, beginning with Cabot in 1497. The map was first published in 1755 and would be re-issued, with various changes to the plate, into the 19th century.

Stevens and Tree "Comparative Cartography" 51a, in Tooley, The Mapping of America; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps 755.2; Sellers and Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies 29; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 576.

#25616$3,500.00
 
 
D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782)

Amerique Septentrionale

Paris: 1746. Copper engraved map, on four unjoined sheets, period hand-colouring in outline. Sheet size: Approximately 41 x 36 inches, if joined.

One of the best French Maps of North America prior to the French & Indian War.

"To illustrate the cartography of the second half of the eighteenth century, a d'Anville map is essential. He dominated not only French but all contemporary geographers. He was one of the foremost to leave blank spaces in his maps where knowledge was insufficient" (Tooley).

Jean Baptiste Bouguignon d'Anville was appointed Royal Geographer to Louis XV at the age of twenty. A meticulous scholar of cartographic sources, he drew on more than fifty years of French exploration of the region to draft this map. Cavalier de La Salle was the first explorer to travel down the Mississippi to the Gulf in 1682, claiming the region for France. The Sieur d'Iberville founded New Orleans in 1717, and by the time this map was drafted, the French had heavily explored the region. As shown here, they had at various times established a series of forts at Natchez, Mobile, Biloxi, and various missions in the upper Mississippi valley. The Spanish settlement of Pensacola as well as numerous native villages are also depicted. As evinced here, the French had not only surveyed the Gulf coast but also the interior, as the courses of many rivers, such as the Red, Ouachita, Pearl, Pascagoula, and Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, and Missouri Rivers are clearly delineated. Also of note on this map is an excellent depiction of the Great Lakes (considered cartographically superior to the mapping by Mitchell) and the Ohio River Valley, as well as the inclusion of the newly formed colony of Georgia.

"Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville engraved his first map at age fifteen. He carried on the French school of cartography developed by the Sanson and the Delisle families and enjoyed a reputation as the finest mapmaker of his time. Although he apparently never left the city of Paris, he had access to the reports and maps of French explorers, traders, and missionaries. D'Anvilles American maps draw on material gathered from several French expeditions made during the first half of the eighteenth century. At this time, the French were intent on preempting Spanish expansion into the Mississippi River valley and finding trade routes to the western Indians and Santa Fe. DAnvilles maps significantly improved the geographic knowledge of the Mississippi and Missouri river regions" (Lewis & Clark: the Maps of Exploration, University of Virginia Library, online exhibition).

This map would have a lasting impact with Thomas Jeffery's using it as the basis for his own map of North America in 1755. Furthermore, d'Anville's 1746 map was among the maps consulted by Nicholas King for his seminal manuscript map of the western parts of North America done for use on the Lewis & Clark expedition.

Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p. 571; Tooley, pp. 316-371; Lowery 381; The Literature of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, p. 40; Karpinski, Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan p. 138.

#25792$3,000.00
 
 
DANCKERTS, Justus (1635-1701)

Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ nec non Pennsylvaniæ et partis Virginiæ tabula multis in locis emendata

[Amsterdam: circa 1684]. Engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline and with the inset view of New York entirely coloured. Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 24 1/4 inches.

A fine example of the second state of Danckerts' important map, with beautiful period hand colouring.

This important map is derived from the Visscher map of about 1655, which is itself drawn from the Janssonius map of 1651. Philip Burden lists three states of this map: the first which was probably published in about 1673 and is easily recognized as it does not include Philadelphia and there is no mention of Pennsylvania in the title. Burden writes of the present second state: "Following the founding of Philadelphia a revised state was produced ... Danckerts updated the map in a significant manner. The Delaware River is completely revised so that it no longer connects with the Hudson River ... Pennsylvania is named, its boundary is marked, and many largely domestic animals are engraved within the region. Recognition of the English hold over New Amsterdam is seen in the addition to the title to the view of [the words]Nieuw Yorck, eetÿs Genaemt above. ... Along with the addition to the view title ... the main [title] ... has had [the words] Pennsylvaniæ, et partis added as the third line" (Burden, II pp.39-40).

Manhattan in Maps, p. 32-33; Burden II, 434; McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 680.2 ; Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island vol. 1, pp. 148-151; Tooley, The Mapping of America, p. 285, pl. 150; Campbell (1965) pp. 285-6 nos. 8-9a; Deak, Picturing America 67.

#26032$10,000.00
 
 
DANCKERTS, Justus (1635-1701)

Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio

Amsterdam: [circa 1680]. Copper-engraved map. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches.

The first state of Danckert's first map of North and South America.

Danckerts here issues a version of De Witt's circa 1675 map of the same title (i.e., Burden 465, between state 3 and state 4 of that issue). Cartographically, the two are very similiar, and thus Burden's notes on the earlier apply. Of that map, Burden writes: "The map is cartographically drawn directly from De Wit's own wall map version published in 1672. The most notable improvement is the depiction of the five Great Lakes, this for the first time on a Dutch map. There is also an altered west coast depiction of the Hudson Bay region. Both features appear to have been taken from Guillaume Sanson's Amerique Septentrionale, published in 1669" (Burden 465). As in the De Wit map, the decorative cartouche on the present map by Danckerts draws from an earlier Visscher map of the western hemisphere.

The present map is Burden's first state, with the additional cartouche at the top left, without the mapping of New Guinea and neighboring islands in the South Pacific, and without Terra Esonis in the north. In circa 1696, Danckerts would re-issue this map from a new plate, the present plate apparently having worn out or been damaged (see Burden 725). This earlier version, however, is considerably more scarce, particularly in its first state, with Burden noting that only "a handful of examples" of Danckert's atlas from this early period are extant.

Burden, The Mapping of North America 527 (state 1); McLaughlin, Mapping of California as an Island 75.

#25658$2,250.00
 
 
DE L'ISLE, Guillaume (1675-1726)

Carte d'Amerique dressee pour l'usage du Roy

Paris: Phillipe Buache, 1722 [but 1745]. Copper-engraved map, period hand colouring in outline. Sheet size: 21 1/8 x 30 1/2 inches.

A Buache issue of a noted De L'Isle's map of the Western hemisphere

This map by De L'Isle is one of the three original maps of America noted by Tooley as being a prototype for many maps of the region published in the 18th century. "Depicts North and South America, the west coast taken north to Cap Mendocin and Cap Blanc with a note, 'Entree decouverte par Martin d'Aguilar'" (Tooley). In this issue of De l'Isle's 1722 map, Buache has re-engraved the plate, adding a floral garland to the cartouche, among other incidental, decorative changes.

Tooley, "French Mapping of the Americas" 5 in Tooley, The Mapping of America.

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