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D'ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782) and LAURIE & WHITTLE
A New Map of the Whole Continent of America, divided into North and South and West Indies, wherein are exactly described the United States of North America as well as the several european possessions according to the preliminaries of peace signed at Versailles Jan. 20 1783. Compiled from Mr. D'Anville's maps of that continent, with the addition of the Spanish discoveries in 1775 to the north of California & corrected in the several parts belonging to Great Britain from the original materials of Governor Pownall, MP
London: Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1794. Copper-engraved map on four joined sheets, with period hand-colouring in outline, overall sheet size: 48 1/8 x 49 inches. Fine condition except for some small tears to the margins and old folds, some light browning.
A magnificent late 18th-century wall map of the Americas.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was the spiritual successor to Guillaume De l'Isle in the sense that he maintained the rigorous standard for accuracy that De l'Isle had established. D'Anville was the last French mapmaker to establish an international reputation which was superior to all his contemporaries, as witnessed by the respect shown by English cartographers and publishers during an era when the two countries were often at war and always hostile to one another.
Robert Laurie and James Whittle were London print and map publishers, who issued revised and enlarged English editions of many of D'Anville's maps. The present wall-map was apparently first issued in this form by Robert Sayer in 1786 - Laurie & Whittle subsequently took over the plate, substituted their names and had the date altered.
Cf. Phillips Maps of America p.111 (Sayer issue).
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#10396 $3,500.00 
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© 2002-2005 Donald A. Heald
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