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Item #45 - DABLON, Lac Svperievr...,1672
A M E R I C A & T H E G R E AT L A K E S :
DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
The mapping of the Great Lakes, America’s “third
coast”, is a story which has not been adequately told.
There are a number of valuable references, beginning with
Louis C. Karpinski’s Bibliography of the Printed Maps of
Michigan (1931), and continuing through The John Carter
Brown Library’s publication of Kevin Kaufman’s The
Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Seventeenth Century
(1989). However, the numerous projects have limitations,
either chronologically or conceptually, and the definitive
study remains to be done.
The Great Lakes were not known to Europeans in
the sixteenth century except through Amerindian oral tradition—so the 20 maps included from this period interpret the theme broadly and emphasize lack of detailed
knowledge and speculation. Among the more important
are worldmaps such as the 1511 Sylvanus, first separating
Asia from America and printed in black and red. Maps of
the Western Hemisphere include several woodcuts by
Sebastian Munster, the first state of the 1570 Ortelius, and
the scarce 1593 DeJode.
The catalog presented here is the effort of one
man, who lived and worked in the Great Lakes region,
and in the late 1970s began a serious study of mapping.
He interpreted the field broadly, and wished to cover the
area from reconnaissance to settlement. Displayed here
are 235 maps as well as books and atlases which together
tell the story of this valuable fresh water route into the
interior of the continent.
However, the voyages of Samuel de Champlain
beginning in 1603 resulted in a primarily French century
of exploration and mapping. In the collection, 55 of the
maps are from this period. They begin with the 1612 large
map by Champlain which is deservedly called a masterpiece and continue later with his 1632 map, which represents a summary of his lifetime achievements. Also represented are the Champlain derivitive maps—the three
from Pierre DuVal beginning in 1653 as well as the scarce
Jean Boisseau.
Our study begins with the pre-discovery period
and is represented by a traditional Ptolemaic world map
of 1507, and a 1486 map showing Greenland at the outer
rim of the known world. The Columbian voyages are
boldly represented by the famous Johannes Ruysch map
of 1508, which is the earliest obtainable map to show the
New World.
Champlain’s conception of the region was supplemented by the work of Jean Deshayes on the St.
Lawrence, Nicolas Sanson on the Great Lakes, and the
strikingly accurate Jesuit map of Lake Superior by Claude
Dablon. All are represented in the collection.
The seventeenth century was known for the quality of map engraving and coloring. Numerous examples
from the much-admired Dutch artisans are included, as
well as six maps from the Venetian craftsman, who had
access to the French archives, Vincenzo Coronelli.
To end the century, the growth of the American
republic is chronicled by several maps—the two most
important represented in a splendid map by Aaron
Arrowsmith and the unique map of post roads by
Abraham Bradley.
The eighteenth century was a period of international rivalry, improved cartography, and strengthened
trade in the region. Until 1760, the rivalry was expressed
openly on maps between British and French publishers.
But it also inspired renewed territorial claims and some of
the most important cartography. In all, 93 maps from the
collection are from this century.
Maps of nineteenth century settlement account
for the final 67 numbers in the collection. They represent
a variety of printing styles and the gradual conversion of
the landscape to support agricultural and transportation
systems. Adding to the activity was the construction of the
Erie Canal in 1825. The upper territories of the midwest
were suddenly open to a migratory flood of trade, traffic,
and population. Maps such as the Orange Risdon survey,
of which this copy is one of ten known, were made in
anticipation of settlers which would require good maps.
The map trade in the first half of the century was
dominated by the French firms of De l’Isle, De Fer, Bellin,
and d’Anville. Numerous examples can be found in the
collection, including two rare wall maps by Nicolas de Fer
and two proof states of the 1742 Jacques Bellin Lacs du
Canada.
The growth of towns and cities is another nineteenth century development. Detroit receives particular
attention in several maps including the 4-sheet 1835 map
by John Farmer -- one of only eight known copies.
British mapping in North America was less consistent . In the early period it was dominated by the highly individual efforts of Herman Moll, John Senex, and
Henry Popple. Examples from each are represented here,
including an example of the complete 1733 Popple in contemporary hand color.
Specialization of map types increased proportionately with land use and the production of county atlases
dates from this period. One early thematic map represented here is a striking 1858 ecclesiastical map by
Griolamo Petri.
Serious scientific mapping was to await the work
of John Mitchell, whose 1755 map of North America set a
new standard for accuracy. The second state of the map is
included here.
Atlases and books with maps are a small component of the collection but some of the important explorers
are represented, including Charlevoix, Hennepin, and
LaHontan.
The French and Indian War and the American
Revolution set publisher’s presses to work issuing maps
to describe these events. Among the more prominent
examples are a LeRouge map of 1778 based on the
Mitchell, two maps from the work of Brion de la Tour, and
the large-scale survey of New York by Claude Joseph
Sauthier.
We hope you will find this collection as interesting to read about as the collector who enjoyed putting it
together. As David Woodward reminds us in the Preface
to the Parker Collection, a definitive study of Great Lakes
cartography must still be written. This catalog shows
what is possible.
Douglas W. Marshall
Guest Editor
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A M E R I C A & T H E G R E AT L A K E S :
Discovery and Settlement
Item #1 - PTOLEMY, Tabvla Moderna..., 1482/86
1. PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS
TABVLA MODERNA PRUSSIE LIVONIE NORBEGIE ET
GOTTIE, [Ulm], 1482/6.
16 1/4” x 22 5/8”. Woodcut. Original color. Excellent
condition. $9,600.
the New World, since the competitors, the
1506 Contarini world map and the
Waldseemuller wall map of 1507, each exist
in only one known copy. The world map of
Johann Ruysch is the magnificent depiction
of the Columbus discoveries. It is engraved
on a fan-shaped conical projection prominently displaying the new geographic information.
Of immediate impact is the appearance of
part of the Southern Hemisphere and the
West Indian Islands. All of these features
endorse the view of Columbus that these
new territories were off the Asian mainland,
or at least on the way to Asia. Greenland,
also, is appended as an Asian peninsula.
Ruysch accepts the length of a degree used
by Columbus and thus Asia is extended
eastward more than 40 degrees. Scroll-like
devices disguise parts of the as yet unknown new world.
Overall, the Ruysch map has a theatrical appearance. It
is an announcement of the new and the unexpected. It
encapsules the results of Columbus’ fourth and last voyage and does not deviate from his beliefs. Yet it opened
the door to the unexplored—a metaphoric opportunity in
comparison with the enclosed Ptolemaic world.
It is difficult to conceive of a map with a more profound
impact on practical navigation and geographic studies.
This is the fifth state with “Pelagus Bone Spoanse” off the
Cape of Good Hope. ref: Nordensköld, Facsimile Atlas; R.
W. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, London, 1983, map #25.
This is the first map to show any part of the New World.
A pre-Columbian map from the Ulm printing of Ptolemy
depicting the Atlantic islands of Iceland and Greenland.
This woodcut map represents a sailor’s view of the northern latitudes with Iceland at the edge of the known world
and Greenland misplaced and appended to Europe above
Scandanavia.
The coloring of the Ulm maps is distincTHE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE MAP TO SHOW AMERICA
tive as is the gothic lettering and Germanic
style of the woodcut topography. The publication bankrupted the printer Leinert
Holle, who sold the blocks to Johann Reger.
Four years later a second edition was forthcoming with a printing of 1,000 copies.
The 1482 and 1486 printings are distinguishable by a title which Reger added to
each sheet outside the upper border. Also,
the sea in the earlier edition is colored a
rich blue whereas in the 1486 reissue it is
usually a soft brown. ref: A. E. Nordenskiöld
Facsimile-Atlas; Stockholm, 1889 (Dover,
1973); T. Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps:
1472-1500, London, 1987, p. 135-8.
2. RUYSCH, JOHANNES
VNIVERSALIOR COGNITI ORBIS TABVLA EX REGENTIBVS CONFECTA ORBSERVATIONIBVS, [Rome], 1508.
16” x 21”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$155,000.
Here is the first obtainable map to show
Item #2 - RUYSCH, Vniversalior Cogniti Orbis..., 1508
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Item #3 - SYLVANUS, Untitled World Map, 1511
3. SYLVANUS, BERNARDUS
Untitled World Map, [Venice], 1511,
16 1/4” x 22 3/8”. Woodcut. Printed in black and red.
Trimmed close at lower margin and mounted on paper.
Otherwise excellent condition. $55,000.
The cartographer credited with promoting
the claims of Americus Vespucci, and thus
responsible for bestowing title to the New
World, Martin Waldseemüller, created this
traditional Ptolemaic world map in 1505/6.
Together with his associate, Mathias
Ringmann, Waldseemüller was believed to
have formed many of the woodblocks in St.
Die, Lorraine. The project was abandoned
for financial reasons for several years until
printed in Strassburg by Johann Schott in
1513.
This is, of course, a pre-Columbian world
view and a traditional map which invited
comparison with the growing body of geographic knowledge incorporated in “Tabula
Moderna”.
The conical projection, the named winds,
and the tripartite world are hallmarks of its
medieval origin. The one deviation is the
opening of the enclosed Indian ocean—a
result of discoveries no cartographer could
afford to overlook.
Here is the composite world known to 15th century
scholars and created by the same cartographer who
deconstructed it by naming a new continent. It would be
difficult to duplicate this irony. ref: Shirley, map #34.
The Sylvanus world map of 1511 adds materially
to awareness of the New World and follows the
1507 Ruysch map in collecting importance.
The Sylvanus delivers information and ambiguity
to the Columbian world view of islands off the
coast of Asia. The heart-shaped projection breaks
the new discoveries from the Asian mainland and
although any connection between the northern
islands and the land mass of South America is circumstantial, it provides a transition.
Marked “Regalis domus”, the undefined land
fragment in the northern latitudes is one of the first
detailed effects of the voyage of the Corte Real
brothers, sailing under the Portugese flag in 1501.
On the oriental edge of the map is only the second
depiction of Japan (Zampagv)—first revealed on
the Contarini world map. Also on the Asian side is
the word “Grvenlant” which continues the confused northern latitudes encountered in the Ulm
Ptolemy map above.
Most remarkable are the place names printed in
red ink by means of type set into woodblocks and
Item #4 - WALDSEEMÜLLER, Generale Ptholemai, 1505/1506
applied on a second strike. Together with the
windheads and zodiacal signs the effect is visually
5. ZIEGLER, JACOB
profound.
SCHONDIA, [Strasbourg], 1532.
The map was appended in the Venice Ptolemy follow9 5/8” x 14 1/4”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $6,500.
ing the traditional maps. It was not reprinted and remains
scarce. ref: Nordensköld, Facsimile Atlas; Shirley, map #32.
This map of Scandanavia names Finland for the first
time, includes a recognizable Sweden and Baltic, and
4. WALDSEEMÜLLER, MARTIN
depicts confused landforms in the North Atlantic. Most
GENERALE PTHOLEMEI, [Strassburg], 1513.
astonishing is a continental sized Greenland connected to
17” x 23”. Woodcut. Later hand color. Excellent condinorthern Europe by a land bridge. There is evidence that
tion. $9,000.
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WORLD MAP ENGRAVED BY HOLBEIN
Jacob Ziegler, the cartographer, knew of the
John Cabot voyage with the place name “Terra
Bacallaos” (land of the codfish).
The map remains a figurative description of
western lands and a conjectural image of
Greenland and adjacent discoveries. Ziegler’s
sources were the prelates, Erik Walkendorf,
Archbishop of Drontheim and his successor,
Olof Engelbrektsson, as well as the rector Peder
Mansson of Vesteras and Johannes Magnus,
Archbishop of Upsala and brother of Olaus—
the latter created the famous nine-sheet map of
North Europe in 1539.
This map and seven other woodcuts of the
eastern Mediterranean were first published in
Quae Intus Continentur of 1532 and again in
Terrae Sanctae in 1536. ref: Nordenskiöld,
Facsimile Atlas; Burden, The Mapping of North
America, map #9.
Item #6 - GRYNAEUS, Typvs Cosmographicvs Vniversalis, 1532
7. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
NOVAE INSVLAE, XVII - NOVA TABVLA, [Basel], 1540.
10 5/8” x 13 1/2”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $6,500.
Item #5 - ZIEGLER, Schondia, 1532
6. GRYNAEUS, SIMON
TYPVS COSMOGRAPHICVS VNIVERSALIS, [Basle],
1532.
14 1/2” x 21 3/4”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $26,000.
Sebastian Münster is thought to be the cartographer of
this world map appearing in Novus Orbis Regionum by
Johann Huttich and Simon Grynaeus. Rodney Shirley follows Nordenskiold in attributing the map area to
Münster. Hans Holbein the Younger, at work for several
publishers, provided the artistic detail of the borders.
The oval projection follows the Bordone map of 1528 but
the cartography may have been done a decade prior.
Nordenskiöld notes no Antarctic continent which
Magellan had confirmed in the circumnavigation.
The new world is represented by a partial outline of
South America and a Central America and Gulf region
noted as “Terra de Cuba”. Closely behind is “Zipangri”
(Japan), so that the cartographer strays not too far from
the Columbus interpretation. ref: Nordenskiöld, Facsimile
Atlas; Shirley, map #67.
The first state of Sebastian Münster’s breakthrough
woodcut map to show a separate continental landmass of
North and South America.
Münster was a scholar and writer of some eighty books
on theological subjects and was an ordained Franciscan
monk. His edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia proved popular and was succeeded by the Cosmography in 1544—
published in numerous editions over the next hundred
years.
The map depicts Magellan’s ship Victoria and names for
the first time on a map, “Mare pacificum”. The out of
scale appearance of the details is created by the early use
of metal type place names inserted into the wooden block.
TRUE FIRST ISSUE OF
FIRST SEPARATE MAP OF AMERICA
Item #7 - MÜNSTER, Novae Insvlae, 1540
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The large indentation in North America is the mythical
“Sea of Verrazzano” which Giovanni di Verrazzano, sailing under the French flag, mistook for the northwest passage. ref: Karrow, Mapmakers of the 16th century, Chicago,
1991; Burden, map #12, state 1.
TWO ADDITIONAL EDITIONS OF MÜNSTER’S
FAMOUS WESTERN HEMISPHERE MAP
The Italian text of the same map used in the
Cosmographia of 1558 and again in 1571 and 1578. ref:
Burden, map #12, state 8.
10. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
Das Erst General/inhaltend die beschreibung vnd den Circkel
des gantzen Erdtrichs vnd Möre, [Basel], 1553.
10 3/8” x 14 7/8”. Woodcut. Some wormholes, otherwise
very good condition. $2,000.
The Münster world map was recut from the original in
1550 and used in all editions of the Cosmographia until
1578. The monogram of the woodcutter, “DK” (David
Kandel) appears in the lower left. Also a variant sea monster now faces west in the South Atlantic.
The mythical “Sea of Verrazzano” remains a conspicuous
feature of the North American continent with a clear
route to Asia.
Also curious is the Greenland promontory which extends
into Scandanavia and seems to be an extension of Jacob
Ziegler’s cartography.
Those with an interest in the Great Lakes should be able
to discern the effect of the Cartier voyages although being
able to distinguish identifiable features is not so easy. ref:
Karrow #58/73.1; Shirley, map #77.
Item #8 - MÜNSTER, Tauola nouarum insularum..., 1552
8. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
Tabula nouarum insularum, quas diuersis respectibus
Occidentales & Indianas uocant, [Basel], 1552.
10 5/8” x 13 3/8”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $3,000.
A later state of the map from the Latin Cosmographia
published in 1552. ref: Burden, map #12, state 5.
Item #10 - MÜNSTER, Das Erst General..., 1553
11. RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
LA NVOVA FRANCIA, [Venice], 1556.
10 3/4” x 14 3/8”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $2,400.
Item #9 - MÜNSTER, Tauola dell’isole nuoue, 1558
9. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
Tauola dell’isole nuoue, le quali son nominate occidentali, &
indiane per diuersi rispetti, [Basel], 1558.
10 1/2” x 13 1/2”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $3,000.
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Ramusio’s La Nvova Francia is the first map devoted to
New England and New France. It is largely based on the
cartography of Giovanni da Verrazzano and an enlargement from the 1548 Giacomo Gastaldi map.
The river network includes knowledge of the Hudson
River and Cartier’s voyage up the St. Lawrence -- both
rivers appear to meet inland. The wormlike configuration
stretching around the lower border and right side is meant
to be the Grand Banks. Finally, the Labrador and
Newfoundland portions are barely recognizable.
Ramusio was born in Venice and spent most of his life as
a civil servant. He bacame acquainted with voyages to all
parts of the world and dedicated the third volume of
Navigationi et Viaggi to the Western Hemisphere.
Many authorities believe that Giacomo Gastaldi was the
author of the map and that Matteo Pagano cut the woodblock. This is the third state of the map. ref: Burden, map
#25; Verner and Stuart-Stubbs, The Northwest Part of
America; map #2.
13. RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO
TIERRA NVEVA, [Venice], 1561.
7 3/8” x 9 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $800.
This is only the second map of the northeast coast—a
slightly enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi’s map published in 1548. However, the river network without Great
Lakes, was borrowed from Ramusio’s map of New
France.
Ruscelli added new maps for his edition of Ptolemy’s
Geographia and the plates were engraved by Giulio and
Livio Sanuto. ref: Burden, map #30.
Item #11 - RAMUSIO, La Nuova Francia, 1556
12. RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
LA TERRA DE HOCHELAGA NELLA NOVA FRANCIA,
[Venice], 1556.
10 7/8” x 14 7/8”. Woodcut. Excellent condition. $1,200.
The first plan of the site of Montreal showing the Indian
settlement visited by Cartier. This woodcut was part of
the third volume of Navigationi et Viaggi.
Item #12 - RAMUSIO, La Terra de Hochelaga..., 1556
Item #13 - RUSCELLI, Tierra Nveva, 1561
14. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM
AMERICAE SIVE NOVI ORBIS, NOVA DESCRIPTIO,
[Antwerp], 1570.
14 1/2” x 20 1/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $7,500.
Here is one of the most identifiable and distinctive early
maps of America from the first true atlas, the Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum. It is the very first state of this map with
the Azores mislabeled “Canarie insule”.
For the cartography, Ortelius is indebted to Gerard
Mercator. This collaboration permitted the borrowing of
details from Mercator’s 21-sheet world map of 1569.
Ortelius dispensed with the traditional maps of Ptolemy
to create a unique compendium of modern maps which
were sized similarly and answered a commerical demand.
The copper plate for the map was cut by Frans
Hogenberg and as the atlas was republished over the next
40 years, three separate plates were used for the map.
The geographic information is not new with the St.
Lawrence River ending at “Chilaga” and the western
bulge in South America. But the dissemination was extensive and the map achieved a pre-eminent status in defining New World cartography. This copy of the very first
state is an attribute to any collection. ref: Burden, map #39;
Karrow, map #1/7.
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reason for low sales may be a careless registration of plates seen in some atlases
although it was not the case with this map.
The map of America was extracted in
large part from the 1592 world map by
Petrus Plancius.
It shows a clear
Northwest passage with a “Lago de
Conibas” emptying into it. North of
“Hochalaga” are other fresh water lakes,
obviously derived from Indian accounts.
This content is utilized by Rumold
Mercator’s polar map of 1595 (see next
item).
Item #14 - ORTELIUS, Americae Sive Novi Orbis..., 1570
15. PORCACCHI TOMMASO
MONDO NVOVO, [Venice], 1572, [1590].
4” x 5 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $350.
This map incorporates the second voyage of Cartier and
was published in 1572 by Tomaso Porcacchi as a reduced
copy of the Paolo Forlani map of 1565—formerly attributed to Bolognino Zaltieri.
It appeared in one of the best known isolarios, titled,
’Isole piu Famose de Mondo. There were six editions to
1620 of which the 1590 is third.
Item #15 - PORCACCHI,
All maps for the atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro
Mondo Nvovo..., 1574/1590
of Padua. The Zaltieri / Gastaldi map is known for its
prominent depiction of the separation of
the Asian and North American contiRARE DE JODE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA IN ORIGINAL COLOR
nents with the mythical Strait of Anian.
Information from the second voyage of
Cartier in the northeast is combined with
Spanish exploration accounts from
Coronado in the southwest.
An unidentified “lago” drains into New
England rather than through the mouth
of the St. Lawrence. ref: Burden, map #42.
16. DE JODE, CORNELIS
AMERICÆ PARS BO:REALIS, FLORIDA,
BACCALA:OS, CANADA, CORTEREA:LIS A Cornelio de Iudæis in lucê edita,
Antwerp, 1593.
14” x 19 1/2”. Engraving. Original color.
Excellent condition. $25,000.
This rare map by Cornelis de Jode came
from the Speculum Orbis Terrarum in
1593 following the death of his father,
Gerard, two years before. The atlas never
sold well, similar to his father’s atlas of
1578, and few examples survive. One
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Item #16 - DE JODE, Americae Pars Borealis..., 1593
region. This map was put together by Gerard
Mercator (d. 1594) but published by his son Rumold in
the year following.
Four polar islands surround the pole, as in the
Ruysch map, of which two were inhabited. The
islands were separated by rivers that met at the polar
cap in a whirlpool.
Only the 1595 and 1602 editions of Atlantis Pars
Altera were published by Rumold before Jodocus
Hondius bought the plate and updated it. Eighteen
editions to 1639 used the State II version.
For Great Lakes aficionados, note the large body of
North American fresh water emptying into the Arctic
and the presence of other lakes further south. ref:
Burden, map #88; E. G. R. Taylor, “A Letter Dated 1577
from Mercator to John Dee”, Imago Mundi, XIII (1956).
18. WYTFLIET, CORNELIS
NOVA FRANCIA ET CANADA 1597, [Leuven], 1597.
9 1/8” x 11 3/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$1,200.
Item #17 - MERCATOR, Septentriolalivm Terrarum..., 1595
Cornelis de Jode’s scholarship is solid as he makes use of
the maps of Theodore de Bry and Jacques Le Moyne. The
Virginia Indians are derived through de Bry from the John
White drawings.
The map, like the atlas, is scarce but adds current information to an improving view of the continent. ref: Burden,
map #81; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, pl. 39.
17. MERCATOR, GERHARDUS
SEP:TENTRIO:NALIVM Terrarum de:scriptio. Per Gerardum
Mercatorem Cum Privilegio, [Duisburg], 1595.
14 3/8” x 15 1/4”. Engraving. Original color. Excellent
condition. $5,000.
The first state of the first map devoted to the Arctic
The effect of French claims and the discoveries of the
Cartier voyages are represented on this map.
“Chilaga” refers to the Indian territory with the settlement of “Hochelaga” representing an encampment near
Quebec .
Cornelis Wytfliet (d. 1597), the Flemish amateur geographer, was responsible for the first atlas dedicated to
America; the 19 map Descriptionis Ptolemaicae
Augmentum, with seven editions published between 1597
and 1611. Both this map and the map following were from
this work. ref: Nordenskiöld, Facsimile Atlas.
19. WYTFLIET, CORNELIS
CONIBAS REGIO CVM VICINIS GENTIBVS, [Leuven],
1597.
8 3/8” x 10 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $900.
A speculative map of the interior of present-day Canada
with Indian communities and Mercator’s Lago de
Item #18 - WYTFLIET, Nova Francia..., 1597
Item #19 - WYTFLIET, Conibas Regio..., 1597
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Conibus.
The whole map is imaginary. The only known elements
abut the eastern edge where “Hochelaga“ and “Saguenai“
were identified. There are no Great Lakes and what is
shown can be conceived of as the effect of an overactive
imagination in reading Hakluyt and DeBry.
ref: Nordenskiöld, Facsimile Atlas; Verner and Stuart-Stubbs,
map #18.
Item #20 - RUSCELLI, Septentrionalivm Partivm Nova..., 1598
20. RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO
SEPTENTRIONALIVM PARTIVM NOVA TABVLA,
[Venice], 1598.
7 1/8” x 9 1/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $250.
This map by Ruscelli was originally issued in 1561 for
Ptolemy’s Geographia. In 1574 a new and nearly identical
plate was cut for use in the two last editions of Ptolemy
in 1598 and 1599.
The cartography is a reduced version of the Nicolo Zeno
map of 1558 but without the land bridge from
Scandanavia to Greenland.
The Zeno brothers purported travels in the 14th century
were disproved finally in 1898,
but the Ruscelli map gave currency to the legend of fictitious
islands in the North Atlantic.
ref: Burden, map #45.
22. CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL
CARTE GEOGRAPHIQVE DE LA NOVVELLE FRANSE
FAICTTE PAR LE SIEVR DE CHAMPLAIN SAINT TONGOIS CAPPITAINE ORDINAIRE POVR LE ROY EN LA
MARINE faict len 1612, [Paris], 1612.
16 3/4” x 29 1/2”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$180,000.
More than any other map, the 1612 Champlain represents
the genesis of Great Lakes cartography. Previous maps of
the St. Lawrence valley were extensions of coastal charts
and derivitives from Cartier.
Here Champlain draws on observations from his voyages between 1603 and 1611 and notes on the North Coast
of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, “l’auteur n’a point encorre
recongru cette coste”—the author has not yet seen this
coast. Such honesty is extraordinary but the recognizable
Lake Ontario and the conglomerate western lake are compiled from Indian accounts.
The map accompanied the 1613 publication of Les
Voyages du Sieur de Champlain..., which includes 22
large scale plans for potential harbors. Champlain was
devoted to the new land in which he settled and crossed
the Atlantic over 20 times to secure claims, promotion,
and funding.
Champlain incorporated into the map navigational aids
intended for sailors with uncorrected French compasses.
And in the lower margin his own sketches include strawberries, cherries, raspberries, chestnuts, and hazelnuts
which would be found in the northern forests.
This map can be reckoned as the first scientific chorography of the region. Champlain hired David Pelletier to
draw the Indian figures because he could not draw them
well himself. ref: Heidenreich and Dahl, “The French
Mapping of North America in the Seventeenth Century”, The
Map Collector #13, Dec. 1980; S. E. Morison, Samuel de
Champlain: Father of New France. Boston, 1972; Burden, map
#160.
23. MERCATOR, MICHAEL
AMERICA siue INDIA NOVA. ad magnæ Gerardi Merca:toris
aui Vniversalis imi:tationem in compendi:um redacta. Per
Michaelem
Mercatorem
Duysburgensem, [Amsterdam],
1595/1613.
14 3/8” x 18”. Engraving.
Later outline color. Excellent
condition. $5,000.
21. SESSA
AMERICA, [Venice], 1599.
7 1/2” x 9 3/4.” Engraving.
Excellent condition. $200.
From the Venice edition of
Ptolemy, this map of the
Western Hemisphere follows the
Ortelius style. An unnamed
body of water is in North
America which could be interpreted as a lake.
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Item #21 - SESSA, America, 1599
This map was created by
Michael Mercator, grandson of
the great Gerard Mercator
(d.1594). It is the only map
attributed to him.
The general outline of the
map was taken from Rumold
Mercator’s world map of 1587.
Some of these unique views
were incorporated—such as
the islands of the North Pole,
1612 CHAMPLAIN
Item #22 - CHAMPLAIN, Carte Geographiqve de la Novvelle Franse..., 1612
the bulge on the west coast of South America, and most
interesting to Great Lakes observers is the inland lake of
fresh water in Canada. Small rounded inset maps contain
the title, Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Gulf of Mexico.
By 1606, the copper plates had been sold to Jodocus
Hondius, who continued to publish the map for the next
33 years. ref: Burden, map #87.
24. HONDIUS, JODOCUS
AMERICA, Amsterdam, 1619.
14 5/8” x 19 5/8”. Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $4,500.
Item #23 - MERCATOR, America siue India Nova..., 1613
The acquisition of the Mercator plates by
Jodocus Hondius was cause to reissue the
atlas in 1606 with a series of new maps of the
four continents.
The Hondius America is a very attractive
map with a scene appended from Theodore
de Bry showing Brazilian natives making a
local beverage.
Since the Michael Mercator map was published in the same volume, it is clear that
Hondius’ effort is the more modern version
with the Drake landfall noted in California
and the bulge removed from the west coast
of South America.
The St. Lawrence River is seen as the gateway into the interior of the northern continent but without Great Lakes.
After the death of Jodocus Hondius in 1612,
his widow continued to publish under her
husband’s name through 1619—the date of
this map identifiable from text on the verso.
ref: Burden, map #150.
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26. BRIGGS, HENRY
The North part of AMERICA Conteyning
Newfoundland, new England Virginia, Florida,
new Spaine, and Noua Francia,wth ye riche Iles of
Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rico on the
South, and upon ye West the large and goodly
Iland of California. The bonds of it are the
Atlantick Ocean on ye South and East sides ye
south sea on ye west side and on ye North Fretum
Hudson and Buttons baye a faire entrance to ye
nearest and most temperate passage to Japã &
China, London, [1625].
11 1/4” x 13 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $18,000.
The map of Henry Briggs is known chiefly
as the first English map to show California as
an island.
Briggs was a mathematician with a clear
interest in the Northwest passage. His work,
A treatise of the North-West Passage was
Item #24 - HONDIUS, America, 1619
25. ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM
[NEW ENGLANDE], [London], 1624.
9 3/4” x 13 3/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $7,500.
FIRST ENGLISH MAP TO SHOW
THE ISLAND OF CALIFORNIA
This map, with the St. Lawrence designated, “The Great
River of Canada” was designed to locate 20 patents of
land and their holders from the Council for New England
in 1623. French settlements at Tadousac and “Kebec” are
located.
Sir William Alexander, earl of Stirling and first viscount
of Canada received land grants from James I and Charles
I. He issued a separate publication, The Mapp and
Description of New England to show the work of the
Council. His map terms the eastern section, “New
Scotlande” but efforts to colonize it failed.
The first state of the map is extremely rare and in 1625 the
plate was used for Samuel Purchas’ Pilgrimes. It is from
this book that the map was taken. ref: Burden, map #208;
Schwartz and Ehrenberg, pl. 54.
Item #26 - BRIGGS, The North Part of America..., 1625
Item #25 - ALEXANDER, [New Englande], 1624
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included in volume 3 of Purchas’ Pilgrimes along with the
map.
The map was engraved by Reynold Elstracke. It included legends to acknowledge that Briggs had consulted
exploration journals to determine tidal flows and names
Hudson Bay for the first time.
The issue of a Northwest passage is left open but the possibilities are restricted. The St. Lawrence would not provide that opportunity and no Great Lakes are indicated.
The inclusion of the discoveries of the Vizcaino expedition
in 1602/3 supported a western watershed.
The influence of the map was widespread and the legacy of California as an island remained a cartographic fantasy into the mid-18th century, though it had been disproven by Fr. Kino in 1698. ref: Burden, map #214;
McLaughlin, map #2; Goss, The Mapping of North America,
London, 1990, map #24.
27. DE LAET, JOANNES
NOVA ANGLIA, NOVVM BELGIVM ET VIRGINIA,
[Leiden], 1630.
11 1/8” x 14 1/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$2,900.
Johannes de Laet, as a director of the Dutch West India
Company, republished Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien in
1630 with the addition of four new maps, of which this
was one.
Hessel Gerritsz, cartographer to the Dutch East India
Company was the author and probable engraver of the
map. This was the first printed map to use the terms
“Manbattes” (Manhattan) and “N. Amsterdam”.
The “Grand Lac” at the northern border is a derivitive
from Champlain and in fact, other lakes present include
an unnamed Lake Champlain, a “Lac de Yroquois” and a
fictious lake at the headwaters of the Delaware River.
The map had a wide influence and was pirated for use by
Jansson in 1636 and 1647 (see map 32). ref: Burden, map
#231.
28. CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL
Carte de la nouuelle france, augmenté depuis la derniere, seruant a la nauigation faicte en son vray Meridien, par le Sr de
Champlain Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine; lequel depuis
l’an 1603 jusques en l’année 1629; a descouuert plusieurs
costes, terres, lacs, riuieres, et Nations de sauuages, par cy
deuant incognuës, comme il se voit en ses relations quil a faict
Imprimer en 1632. ou se uoit cette marque ce sont habitations
qu’ont faict les françois, [Paris], 1632.
20 1/2” x 34”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $80,000.
Item #27 - DE LAET, Nova Anglia..., 1630
The Champlain map of 1632 is a summary of his lifetime
explorations and “a magnificent contribution the geographic knowledge of northeastern North America”
(Heidenreich and Dahl).
This map covers the same area as his effort 20 years
before but in much greater detail. Hudson Bay is added.
The traditional route of the coureurs de bois up the Ottawa
River and into Lake Huron is detailed. And although
Champlain had not seen the coasts of Labrador or
Virginia, he makes an improved effort to describe them.
Champlain was forced to rely on Indian accounts for
much of his information on the lakes. Thus, Lake Erie is
1632 CHAMPLAIN MAP
Item #28 - CHAMPLAIN, Carte de la Nouuelle France...., 1632
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seriously undersized.
Lake Superior may be the “Grand Lac”
reported to him through Etienne Brule.
However, he succeeded in linking the lakes as
well as providing a potential opening to the
west.
It may be coincidental that the English settlements in New England are not shown, perhaps because Champlain was evicted in 1629
by a privateer force under David Kirke and
transported back to England.
Appearing in Les Voyages de la Novvelle
France Occidentale, the map and book represent a summa of knowledge on the first
French settlement to 1629.
Champlain
remained an advocate and returned to die in
New France in 1635 after the French reestablished claim to the territory with repayment
of a dowry to the English crown.
The map had a long-lasting influence and
served as a prototype to Pierre Duval and
others. ref: Heidenreich and Dahl, “The French
Mapping of North America...”; Schwartz and
Ehrenberg; Burden, map #237; Cumming,
Skelton, and Quinn, The Discovery of North
America; Heidenreich, Cartographica, #17,
(1976).
Item #29 - BLAEU, AMERICÆ nova Tabula, 1635
29. BLAEU, WILLEM
AMERICÆ nova Tabula. Auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw,
[Amsterdam], 1635.
16” x 21 1/2”. Engraving. Original color. Repairs to centerfold. Paper age-toned. Generally good condition.
$5,500.
The first version of this map appeared separately in 1617
and with the exception of some South Pacific islands and
a clarification of Terra del Fuego, the same geographical
content was published unchanged until a 1672 fire
destroyed the firm.
The distinctive appearance of the map is aided by the
decorative borders of nine Spanish or Indian cities and
side panels of native figures.
The publisher, Willem Janszoon, adopted the name Blaeu
to avoid confusion with Jan Janson and altered his own
name on the 3rd state of the map beginning in 1621. The
Blaeu firm, continued by sons Cornelis and Joan is noted
for production of the most attractive maps of the 17th century.
This particular map appeared in the 1635 Latin edition of
the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. ref: Burden, map #189.
30. BLAEU, WILLEM
NOVA TOTIUS TERRARUM ORBIS GEOGRAPHICA AC HYDROGRAPHICA TABULA auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw, [Amsterdam],
1640.
16 1/4” x 21 1/2”. Engraving. Original
outline color. Excellent condition. $12,000.
Item #30 - BLAEU, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis, 1635
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A map originally published in 1606 as a
one-sheet reduction from Blaeu’s 20-sheet
map of the previous year. The principal
source of information was the Petrus
Plancius world map of 1592.
Blaeu’s map has trademark decorative
border panels. Representations of the
moon, sun, and planets are at the top border, with the seven wonders of the world at
the bottom. Along the sides are the four
elements and the four seasons.
The engraver Joshua van den Ende signed
the plate. This copy is from a printing of
1640 and the plate continued to be used
until 1658.
From the standpoint of Great Lakes interests, the
drainage basin is much confused between the
Hudson Bay and St. Lawrence River. The site of
Montreal is indicated but no lakes are shown.
ref: Shirley, map #255.
31. JANSSON, JAN
AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS, Amsterdam,
1640.
18 1/4” x 21 1/2”. Engraving. Original color.
Excellent condition. $2,900.
Ascribed both to Henricus Hondius and Joannes
Janssonius, the first state of this map without
imprint logically belongs to Hondius. Janssonius
became an active partner of Hondius in the 1630s,
and his imprint was added to the second state.
Cartographically, the map is a composite taken
from the work of Henry Briggs, Hessel Gerritsz
and other sources.
This is an attractive and influential map. It is
significant that Blaeu never produced a single
sheet map of North America. The map received
wide dissemination in several languages through
the Hondius and Janssonius atlases.
The Gulf of St. Lawrence seems to follow de Laet’s version, and the Great Lakes or lake in this case is borrowed
from the 1612 Champlain and titled, “Lac des Iroquois”.
ref: Burden, map #245.
32. JANSSON, JAN
NOVA BELGICA ET ANGLIA NOVA, Amsterdam, 1647.
15 1/4” x 19 3/4”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $1,900.
Enlarged and expanded slightly to the north and east,
this map by Joannes Janssonius is a direct heir to the
Johannes de Laet version of 1630 (see map 27).
Item #32 - JANSSON, Nova Belgica..., 1647
Item #31 - JANSSON, America Septentrionalis..., 1640
There are two states of the Janssonius map, the first published in 1636 has Virginia in the title, while this state of
1647 has the shortened title and a new square cartouche.
Janssonius (1588-1664) married the daughter of Jodocus
Hondius and together with Henry Hondius is noted for
publication of a series of atlases.
This map received widespread circulation with the
republication in the atlas series. In 1694 the plates were
purchased at auction by Petrus Schenk for the final state.
ref: Burden, map #247.
33. SANSON, NICOLAS
AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Par N. Sanson d’Abbeville
Geog. du Roy A Paris Chez l’Auteur Et chez Pierre Mariette rue
S. Iacques a l Esperãce 1650. Avec privilege du Roy pour
vingt Ans, Paris, 1650.
15 3/8” x 21 5/8”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $3,500.
In Great Lakes cartography, this map has the distinction of identifying all five lakes in recognizable
form.
Nicolas Sanson was to position French mapping in
the reign of Louis XIV as competitive with the prevailing Dutch. Sanson was titled Geographer to the
King in 1630 and constructed this map on the sinusoidal projection, also called the Sanson-Flamsteed.
Compilation took place from the annual reports of
Jesuits, 1632-80, in New France. The map names
Lakes Superior and Ontario for the first time but
leaves Lakes Erie and Huron unnamed.
A rare first state of the map has been identified in
only two known copies without any coastline
above California. The second state issued a year
later adds a coastline but still leaves open the question of a Northwest passage. This third state shades
Lake Ontario. ref: Burden, map #294.
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35. SANSON, NICOLAS / MARIETTE, PIERRE
LE CANADA, ou NOUVELLE FRANCE, &c. Ce
qui est le plus advancé vers le Septentrion est tiré de
diverses Relations des Anglois, Danois, &c. Vers le
Midy les Costes de Virginie, Nouvlle Suede, Nouveau
Pays Bas, et Nouvelle Angleterre Sont tirées de celles
des Anglois, Hollandois, &c. LA GRANDE RIVIERE
DE CANADA ou de ST LAURENS, et tous les environs sont suivant les Relations des Francois. Par N.
SANSON d’Abbeville Geographe ordinaire du Roy.
A PARIS. Chez Pierre Mariette Rue S. Iacque a
l’Esperance Avecq Privilege du Roy, pour vingt Ans.
1656, Paris, 1656.
15 3/4” x 21 1/2”. Engraving. Originial outline
color. Excellent condition. $4,500.
Item #33 - SANSON, Amerique Septentrionale, 1650
A separately dedicated map of Canada was prepared by Nicolas Sanson, who enlarged a portion
of his 1650 map to create an improved regional
map of Canada and the Great Lakes.
Based on Jesuit sources, the map was engraved
by Jean Somer. It contains additions of place
names, including the naming of Lake Erie “ou
du chat” resembling the outline of the Hondius
“Lac des Iroquois”. The 1636 name may be more accurate
since the Erie Indians had been exterminated by the
Iroquois. Montreal and Quebec are indicated as well as
the Ottawa River route into Georgian Bay, avoiding the
two lower lakes. Compared with the dated conceptions
34. DU VAL, PIERRE
LE CANADA faict par le Sr de Champlain ou sont LA NOUVELLE FRANCE LA NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE LA NOUVELLE HOLANDE LA NOUVELLE SVEDE LA VIRGINIE
&c. Avec les Nations voisines et autres Terres nouuellement
deouuertes Suiuant les Memoires de P. Du
Val Geographe du Roy A PARIS En l’Isle du
DU VAL MAP ORIGINALLY ENGRAVED FOR 1616 CHAMPLAIN
Palais sur le grand Cours de l’Eau. Avec
Priuilege. 1653, Paris, 1653.
13 5/8” x 21 1/4”. Engraving. Original
outline color.
Excellent condition.
$22,000.
The proof state of this map was the first
to show any Great Lake based on
European explorations. One of the
direct descendents of Champlain’s work
is a plate first engraved in 1616 and later
acquired by Pierre Duval, the son-inlaw of Nicolas Sanson. This early example, untitled and incomplete, is considered a proof state to the many alterations
made in 1653.
The 1653 shown here is the first published state and adds additional place
names. The form of the map shows
Hudson Bay located too far east and a
western ocean beyond creating the
opening to a Northwest passage.
The confused positioning of the Great
Lakes is disseminated for the next 24 years—long after
more accurate maps were available. The Duval atlas,
Cartes Geographiques keeps this outdated concept in circulation. ref: Burden, map #309; Verner and Stuart-Stubbs,
map #7; Heidenreich, Cartographica, #17 (1976).
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Item #34 - DU VAL, Le Canada, 1653
on Duval’s map, it is difficult to believe that their print run
timeframes were nearly identical—the Sanson in use for
20 years; the Duval for 24.
For the Great Lakes, this represents a cornerstone map.
ref: Burden, map #318; Heidenreich and Dahl.
36. BRESSANI, FRANCESCO
Nouæ Franciæ Accurata Delineatio 1657,
[Macerata?], 1657.
20 1/8” x 14 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. [restrike of western sheet only]. $750.
Item #35 - SANSON, Le Canada, 1656
An identical map (Item #35) in excellent condition with
original outline color is also available. It was common in
the 17th and 18th centuries for a wealthy collector to trim
and mount the map on contemporary paper in order to
make the outer dimensions of the map fit a binder size.
This is the case with this map mounted in a mahogany
frame with professional matting. $4,000.
Francesco Bressani was a Jesuit priest serving in New France in the 1640s and despite
being captured and tortured by the Iroquois,
he returned to Italy to write a pamphlet of his
experiences and compile a map.
The plate for the western sheet survived and
some pulls were taken in the early 1900s and
printed on old paper. This is one.
The source for the map derives from Jesuit
writings and is the most accurate depiction
until that time of the Great Lakes as well as
Ottawa River entry into Georgian Bay.
Missing is the eastern sheet showing an
accurate St. Lawrence River network and the
frightening martyrdom of Frs. Jean de
Brebeuf and Gabriel Lalemant. Included on
the western sheet is a scene of converted Indians praying.
ref: The Map Collector, June 1982, p. 7; Burden, map #323;
Verner and Stuart-Stubbs, map #6.
37. DU CREUX, FRANÇOIS
TABVLA NOVÆ FRANCIÆ Anno 1660, [Paris], 1660.
13” x 17”. Engraving. Minor holes, otherwise excellent
condition. Library stamp “Bibliotheque du Roi”. $7,000.
RARE JESUIT MAP OF CANADA
Item #37 - DU CREUX, Tabvla Novae Franciae..., 1660
Item #36 - BRESSANI, Nouæ Franciæ ..., 1657
The map associated with Francois Du Creux had a commercial significance in that it depicted the river system
leading to James Bay through Lake Nipigon—a trek so
important to the fur trade. This route was reported by
two coureurs de bois, Radisson and Groseilliers.
Fr. DuCreux was a Jesuit and although he did not travel
to Canada himself, he made good use of the Jesuit literature. The inset map of the Huron territory, also on the
Bresani map, describes the mission on Georgian Bay until
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destroyed by the Iroquois in 1648-49.
The map configuration is dependent on the
Bressani map of 1657 and the Sanson of 1656
for the Great Lakes region but with considerably more detail in the interior. It is dated
1660, prior to inclusion in the 1664 Historiae
Canadensis, and although a simple undecorated map, it remains of central importance to
the history and development of Canada. ref:
Burden, map #349; Heidenreich and Dahl.
38. DE WIT, FREDERICK
NOVA TOTIVS AMERICÆ DESCRIPTIO.
Auct. F. de Wit. 1660, [Amsterdam], 1660.
17 1/4” x 21 3/4”. Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $5,000.
The shape of the Great Lakes and integration
of new information was not a straight line
development as can be seen from the Duval
and Sanson maps. In this map, Frederick de
Wit borrows from Bleau without reference to
the work of the French. California is depicted as an island with an indented northern
coast as in the Hugo Allardt map of 1640.
The map is decorated with border panels and native figures very much in the 17th century Dutch tradition. The
cartouche is topped with a female native riding a large
armadillo. De Wit is known for maps of good coloring
and strong ornamental properties.
Two states of this map are known—the first bearing the
date 1660 and a later state erasing the date from the title.
This is the first state. ref: Burden, map #356; McLaughlin,
map #24.
39. DU VAL, PIERRE
LE CANADA faict par le Sr de Champlain ou sont LA NOUVELLE FRANCE LA NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE LA NOUVELLE HOLANDE LA NOUVELLE
SVEDE LA VIRGINIE &c. Avec les Nations
voisines et autres Terres nouuellement deouuertes Suiuant les Memoires de P. Du Val
Geographe du Roy A PARIS En l’Isle du
Palais Avec Priuilege. 1664, Paris, 1664.
13 5/8” x 21 1/4”. Engraving. Original
outline color.
Excellent condition.
$14,000.
Here is the 1664 version of the map published by Pierre Duval nine years before
and based on Champlain’s prototype.
There are 3 states to the 1664 map. The
first version has the date of 1664 but with
the fortification added to Newfoundland
and “Accadie ou Nau Escosse” as a place
name. A recently found state deletes the
“ou Nau Escosse”. And the final state lists
towns such as Boston, Port Royal,
Montreal, and Quebec.
Also added is an unknown Arctic route of
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Item #38 - DE WIT, Nova Totivs Americae ..., 1660
1665. Finally, “du Roy” is added to Duval’s name in the
cartouche. This copy is an example of the last state, which
must have been published in the timeframe, 1665-70. All
states are uncommon and important to the evolution of
the lakes. ref: Burden, map #309.
40. BLOME, RICHARD / SANSON, NICOLAS
A New Mapp of AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALE Designed by
Mo˜usieur Sanson Geographer to the French King, and
Rendered into English, and Illustrated by Richard Blome. By his
Majesties Especiall Command. London, Printed for Richard
Blome, London, 1669, [second state, 1682].
15” x 21 1/2”. Engraving. Left and right margins extended. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $2,500.
Item #39 - DU VAL, Le Canada..., 1664
This is the first English map to portray all
five Great Lakes, and is based on the Sanson
model. Sanson was credited in the title,
which was a rare acknowledgment from a
cartographer in this period. It is an example
of the interactive and borderless context of
geographic ideas in the mid-17th century.
Richard Blome was a prolific publisher who
utilized the subscription method to finance
his ventures. Publishing an aristocratic coat
of arms also aided patronage solicitations.
Five states of the map have been identified,
including a 1668 proof state. The 1682 is the
third state and appeared in Varenius’
Cosmography and Geography. ref: Burden,
map #397; McLaughlin, map #42.
41. MARIETTE, PIERRE / SANSON,
GUILLAUME / SANSON, NICOLAS
Item #40 - BLOME, A New Mapp of America..., 1669/1682
California as an island appears in the Foxe
form of 1635. The Pierre Mariette in the title is
the son of Nicolas Sanson’s business partner of
the same name who capitalized the business
but died in 1657.
This is a copy of the first state. A second state
was issued in 1690. ref: Burden, map #404;
McLaughlin, map #45.
42. COLOM, JACOB AERTSZ.
Pas caerte von TERRA NOVA Nova Francia Niew
Engelandt en de grote Rivier van Canada. ‘t AMSTERDAM. By Iacob Colom, Amsterdam, [1663].
14 7/8” x 20 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $6,500.
Item #41 - MARIETTE/SANSON, Amerique Septentrionale..., 1669
Blaeu’s Amsterdam competitor in the chart
trade produced this sea chart of the Maritimes
to acompany his Atlas of Werelts-water-deel.
AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Par N. SANSON
Geographe Ordre du Roy. Revuë et changée en
plusieurs endroits suivant les Memoires les plus
recents, Par G. SANSON Geogr. Ordinaire du Roy. A
PARIS Chez PIERRE MARIETTE ruë St Iacques à
l’Esperãce Avec privilege de sa Maité pour 20-Ans.
1669, Paris, 1669.
15 5/8” x 21 7/8”. Engraving. Original outline
color. It was customary for a wealthy collector of
the 17th and 18th centuries to trim and mount on
contemporary paper. Otherwise excellent condition. $3,000.
This map was a replacement for the 1650 onesheet Sanson. Based on the 4-sheet map Nicolas
Sanson had engraved in 1666, the improved version adds elements his son Guillaume was able to
incorporate from previous Sanson maps of 1656.
Item #42 - COLOM, Pas caerte von Terra Nova ..., 1663
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The specific chart is based on Joannes van Loon’s chart of
the same area dated 1661. Prince Edward Island is omitted from both.
Although Colom’s chart book was produced in several
languages in the period 1663-1669, few survive. Koeman
notes their scarcity. The charts have a workmanlike quality which may have contributed to their vulnerability.
ref: Burden, map #374; Koeman IV.
A reduction of the Champlain map of 1632. The importance of this map by Jean Boisseau is the dissemination of
Champlain’s concept. The map was published in two
states, first in 1643 and then as represented here about
1670 (though Burden’s study ascribes 1664) with the addition of many place names and the deletion of the imprint.
Jean Boisseau describes himself as an “enlumineur”,
which was a colorist in the map trade. He saw an opportunity to take advantage of the expanding interest
in America and utilized the best resource he could
find in the work of Champlain.
The map was not issued as part of a book and
consequently the survival of both states is quite
limited. ref: Verner and Stuart-Stubbs, map #5;
Burden, map #261.
45. DABLON, CLAUDE / ALLOUZ, CLAUDE
LAC SVPERIEVR ET AVTRES LIEVX OU SONT
LES MISSIONS DES PERES DE LA COMPAGNIE
DE IESVS COMPRISES SOVS LE NOM D’OVTAOVACS, [Paris], 1672.
13 1/2” x 18 1/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $38,000.
Item #43 - HONDIUS/DE WIT, Poli Arctici ..., 1670/1692
43. HONDIUS / DE WIT
POLI ARCTICI, ET CIRCUMIACENTIUM TERRARUM
DESCRIPTIO NOVISSIMA Per Fredericum de Wit
Amstelodami, Amsterdam, 1670, [1692].
16 7/8” x 19 1/8”. Engraving. Original
color. Excellent condition. $1,500.
Perhaps the most striking early observation of
any lake was contributed by Jesuits Claude
Dablon and Claude Allouez in the publication of
the 1672 map of Lake Superior.
Fr. Allouez had been sent to the region in 1665
and must have utilized Indian teams to compile
survey notes before joining Fr. Dablon in Sault St.
Marie, who probably drafted the map.
Fr. Allouez ventured to Lake Nipigon in 1667
and to Green Bay two years later. The result is a
map of extraordinary accuracy which was not to
be equalled until the military hydrographic surveys of the
19th century.
The map was published in Relations des Missions for the
years 1670-71 and appeared in 1672. Delineating the mission network was a clear purpose.
Originally published in 1636 by Jansson,
this is the fifth state of the map with decorative side panels of whaling scenes and a
secondary cartouche dedicated to de Wit.
This state appeared in de Wit’s Atlas and
Visscher’s Atlas Minor of 1692. The map
area has an enclosed Baffin’s Bay and
Hudson Bay. ref: Kershaw, map #103.
44. BOISSEAU, JEAN
DESCRIPTION DE LA NOVVELLE
FRANCE ou sont remarqueés les diuerse habitations des Francois, despuis la premiere descouuerte jusques a present, recueillie et dressée sur
diuerses relations modernes, [Paris, 1670].
13 5/8” x 20 5/8”. Engraving. Trimmed
and mounted on paper. Excellent condition.
$14,000.
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Item #44 - BOISSEAU, Description de la Novvelle France ..., 1670
STRIKING EARLY DEPICTION OF LAKE SUPERIOR
an inset of Newfoundland. Lake Ontario and
the Ottawa River are inland features. The map
was originally published in English in the 1672
and 1678 editions of Richard Blome’s A
Description of the Island of Jamaica.
47. JAILLOT, HUBERT / SANSON, NICOLAS
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE DIVISÉE
EN SES PRINCIPALES PARTIES..., Par le Sr
SANSON Geographe ordinaire du Roy, 1692,
Paris, 1674/92.
22” x 34 1/4”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $3,500.
Hubert Jaillot enlarged the Guillaume
Sanson map of 1669 and added a dedication to
the Dauphin, double titles and elaborate
scales. It was first issued in 1674 and later
states appeared in in 1685, 1690, 1692, and
1695 under the Jaillot imprint.
Jaillot collaborated with the Sanson heirs in
Item #45 - DABLON, Lac Svperievr..., 1672
This map remains an archetype for a Great Lakes collection. ref: Schwartz and Ehrenberg; Heidenreich and Dahl; D.
Buisseret, Mapping the French Empire in North America,
Chicago, 1991, map #8.
46. MICHAULT, R.
Costes et Riuieres de VIRGINIE, de MARILAND et de NOUUELLE ANGLETERE, [Paris], 1674, [1684].
7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,200.
This map by Michault did not appear in the Clements
Library copy of his book, the obvious source, Recueil de
Divers Voyages Feits en Afrique et en Amerique (Paris,
1674). However, it was included in the second French edition of the book published in 1684. The map area shows
the eastern seaboard from Maryland to Nova Scotia with
Item #46 - MICHAULT, Costes et Rivieres.., 1674
publishing ventures and obtained
rights to the use of the Sanson plates.
The map was engraved by Robert
Cordier and represents a skilled rendering to a highly decorative map. In
the 1685 plate, revisions were made to
the Great Lakes to conform to the
Dablon prototype of Lake Superior.
However, in 1690, for unknown reasons, the lakes were revised back to the
ambiguous Sanson version. The 1692
map, of which this copy is an example
originally was published in the Jaillot
Atlas Nouveau. ref: McLaughlin, map
#55; Parker Collection, The Mapping of the
Great Lakes in the 17th Century, map #10;
Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 313.
Item #47 - JAILLOT/SANSON, L’Amerique Septentrionale.., 1674/1692
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changed, and a new address for Duval is indicated
at “au coin de la rue de Harlay”.
Duval varied the contents of his atlas Cartes
Geographiques and it resembled a composite atlas
in that maps were included from other cartographers. After his death in 1683, his wife and daughters continued publication with an edition printed
in 1688.
The fact that dated designs of the Great Lakes
were still actively produced shows the separation
of the printing trade from those who used maps.
ref: Burden, map #309.
50. MORDEN, ROBERT
Partie de L’AMERIQVE Septentrionale Par R.
Morden, [London], 1680.
4 3/8” x 5”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $450.
Item #48 - ROGGEVEEN, Pascaerte van Terra Nova..., 1675
48. ROGGEVEEN, ARENT
Pascaerte van TERRA NOVA NOVA FRANCIA NIEVW
ENGELAND En de Groote Revier van CANADA,
[Amsterdam], 1675.
17 1/8” x 21”. Engraving. Trimmed close at margins with
no loss of printed surface. Otherwise excellent. $12,000.
Arent Roggeveen received permission to publish Het
Brandende Veen (trans. Burning Fen) in 1668 but the initial edition, including this map, was not published until
1675. The Dutch title refers to heaps of peat set ablaze on
coasts to signal ships or warn them of shoals.
Roggeveen’s publisher was Pieter Goos. But with the
death of Goos in the same year of publication, the rights to
the venture passed to Jacobus Robijn. The Roggeveen sea
charts remain quite rare.
The chart content and title, like the Jacob Colom of 1663,
were derivatives of the Joannes van Loon
chart of 1661. ref: Koeman IV; Burden, map
#365.
Item #50 - MORDEN, Partie de L’Amerique..., 1680
Robert Morden (d.1703) was active in numerous publishing pursuits, including playing cards. This small map
of northeastern North America shows open-ended Great
Lakes in contrast to the 1687 map below (see #58).
49. DU VAL, PIERRE
LE CANADA faict par le Sr de Champlain où
sont LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, LA NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE, LA NOUVELLE
HOLANDE, LA NOUVELLE SVEDE, LA
VIRGINIE &c. Avec les Nations voisines et
autres Terres nouuellement deouuertes Suiuant
les Memoires de P. Du Val Geographe du Roy A
PARIS En l’Isle du Palais au coin de la rue de
Harlay. Avec Priuilege. 1677, Paris, 1677.
13 3/4” x 21 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $11,000.
The final state of the Champlain Duval map
was issued in 1677. The cartouches have
received decorative borders, the date has
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Item #49 - DU VAL, Le Canada ..., 1677
William Berry (fl. 1671-1708) was a London bookseller and engraver who produced a series of maps
and geographies.
In the title to this map of North America he attributes indebtedness to the Sanson family. In fact, it is
based on the Sanson/Jaillot map of 1674 with the
Strait of Anian repositioned. The territory claimed
by the English was expanded from the French
sources.
This remains a large format map in the French tradition, published in London by a cartographer
whose best known atlas was referred to as the
“English Sanson”. ref: Parker collection, map #9;
McLaughlin, map #74.
Item #51 - VAN LOON, Orbis Terrarum.., 1680
51. VAN LOON, JAN
ORBIS TERRARUM NOVA ET ACCURATISSIMA TABULA. Auctore IOANNE à LOON, [Amsterdam, 1680].
17 5/8” x 21”. Engraving. Some tear repairs in margins.
Otherwise excellent condition. $9,500.
53. PITT, MOSES
A MAP of the NORTH-POLE and the PARTS
ADIOINING. OXON At the THEATER MDCLXXX,
[Oxford, 1680].
18” x 23”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $4,000.
The Moses Pitt atlas which contained the van Loon world
map was also the source for of this polar map. In fact, it
was the only map designed, drawn, and engraved in
England—attributed to Michael Burghers, the engraver at
Oxford University.
Many of the other maps were from worn Jansson plates
and Pitt still needed to find professional help to write the
textual descriptions. The task was overwhelming and
failed.
Nevertheless, the polar map is particularly attractive
demonstrating a solid knowledge of Hudson Bay.
A striking world map first appearing in the van Loon Zee
Atlas of 1666. The bold scenes depict Persephone (wife of
Hades), Zeus, Poseidon, and Demeter (Godess of agriculture, fertility, and marriage). They were used earlier on
Nicolaas Visscher’s world map of 1658.
The 1680 version of the map was from a plate recut by
Jansson van Waesberge to add a special
dedication to King Charles II along with
THE FIRST MAP TO NAME PENNSYLVANIA
a coat of arms. The map was to be part
of a projected 12-volume
Dutch /
English collaboration under Moses Pitt.
However, after four volumes were published between 1680 and 1683,and the
text of a fifth prepared, the project
proved disasterous financially and was
abandoned. Pitt was impoverished and
imprisoned. The failure doomed distribution and maps from it remain scarce.
ref: Shirley, map #439.
52. BERRY, WILLIAM / SANSON,
NICOLAS
NORTH AMERICA Divided into its
PRÎCIPALL PARTS..., in which are distinguished the severall COUNTRIES as they
are possessed by the ENGLISH, SPANISH,
and FRENCH, &c. Described by Sanson,
Corrected and amended by William Berry,
London, 1680.
22 3/8” x 35”. Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $7,000.
Item #52 - BERRY/SANSON, North America..., 1680
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across the midwest.
It is emblematic of the craftsmanship of
Coronelli’s engraving with current cartography and vignettes of native activities.
ref: Shirley, map #536; Parker, map #13;
Buisseret, map #10.
55. DE WINTER, ANTONY / SANSON,
NICOLAS
CANADA of NIEW VRANKRYK Getrokken uit
verscheide Fransche, Engelsche, en Hollandsche
Beschryvingen enz, door N. Sanson de Abb’ Geogr.
ordre du Roy, [Amsterdam], 1683.
8 1/8” x 12”. Engraving. Full later hand color.
Excellent condition. $800.
Item #53 - PITT, A Map of the North-Pole..., 1680
54. CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
[Half globe gore of mid-North America], [Venice], 1688.
17” x 10 1/2”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $2,500.
Antony d’Winter was an engraver for the
Sanson family as well as Amsterdam publishers. This small map of Canada is an identical
copy of the Sanson quarto map but with a
Dutch title and d’Winter’s name.
The plate later came into possession of
Francois Halma who published the map in
Algemeene Wereld Beschryving.
ref: Cumming, Southeast, #96.
Coronelli’s 110 centimeter globe was one of the largest
and most elegantly engraved ever produced. Five elaborate cartouches adorn the 12 full length gores.
The half-gore represented here depicts the five Great
Lakes in their correct order. The Mississippi River is
marked following LaSalle’s recent expedition, although
the mouth of the river is located too far west. Patriotic
interests are evident with the title “Canada” stretched
Item #55 - DE WINTER/SANSON, Canada..., 1683
56. KEUR, HENDRIK & JAKOB
ORBIS TERRARUM TABULA RECENS EMENDATA ET
IN LUCEM EDITA, Dordrecht, 1682.
14” x 18 1/8”. Engraving. Full color. Excellent condition.
$1,500.
Item #54 - CORONELLI, globe gore of The Great Lakes, 1688
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The Keur family was known for their production of
bibles first in Dordrecht and later in Rotterdam. The folio
bible of 1682 contains a world map in two hemispheres
with the same decorative elements used by von Loon. The
origin was the Visscher map of 1658 which utilized the
artistry of Nicolaes Berchem in depicting the rape of
Persephone, Zeus in chariot, Poseidon presiding, and
Demeter receiving the fruits of the earth. (see also map
#51 above.)
North and South polar caps have been replaced by astronomical diagrams. For the Great Lakes cartophile, the
map shows only one open ended lake. ref: Shirley, map
#513.
Item #57 - MALLET, Canada..., 1686
Item #56 - KEUR, Orbis Terrarum..., 1682
57. MALLET, ALAIN MANESSON
CANADA ou NOVVELLE FRANCE (die Landtschafft Canada
oder dass Neue Franckreich), [Paris], 1686.
5 7/8” x 4”. Engraving. Later hand color. Excellent condition. $160.
Alain Mallet was a military engineer who under Louis
XIV and published a five volume Description de l’Univers
in 1683 and a German edition in 1686.
The map of Canada and eastern North America incorporates a Sanson version of the Great Lakes and knowledge of the Davis and Hudson expeditions in the north.
59. CORONELLI / NOLIN / TILLEMON
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE du CANADA ou de la NOUVELLE
FRANCE ou sont les Nations des ILINOIS, de TRACY, les
IROQUOIS, et plusieurs autres Peuples; Avec la LOUISIANE
Nouvellement decouverte etc. Dressée sur les Memoires les plus
Nouveaux. Par le P. Coronelli Cosmographe de la Serme Repub.
de VENISE Corrigée et augmentée, Par le Sr Tillemon; et
Dediée A Monsieur l’Abbé BAUDRAND. A PARIS Chez I. B.
Nolin Sur le Quay de l’Horloge du Palais Vers le Pont-Neuf a
l’Enseigne de la Place desVictoires Avec Privilege du Roy 1688,
Paris, 1688.
17 5/8” x 23 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $7,500.
Item #58 - MORDEN, 1687
58. MORDEN, ROBERT
The North West Part of AMERICA by R.
Morden At ye Atlas in Cornhill, [London],
1687.
4 1/2” x 5 1/4”. Engraving. Original
color. Excellent condition. $250.
This small map of Robert Morden
derived from a pocket atlas and depicts
the same area as map #50 above.
However, the shape of the Great Lakes
seven years later is markedly different,
showing much more development.
Item #59 - CORONELLI/NOLIN, Partie Occidentale du Canada..., 1688
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Fr. Vincenzo Coronelli, a member of the
Franciscan order who worked from a
Venetian convent, produced the most influential and accurate map of the Great Lakes in
the 17th century.
The concentration of the map on the Great
Lakes and Mississippi valley represents a
renewed interest in the control of the fur trade
and to the American midsection to contest
Spanish claims.
Coronelli took advantage of published
sources such as Hennepin’s Description de la
Louisiane, and the 1674 Jaillot map (see map
#47). But the innovations came from the manuscript material of Jolliet, Marquette,
Franquelin, La Salle, and the Jesuits he
obtained through his influence at the French
court in the early 1680s.
Two states of the map are known. The first
state has been tentatively dated 1685,
although in printing, the “5” has been deleted. The second state, represented here, has
the published date of 1688. ref: Parker, map
#12; Heidenreich and Dahl; Verner and StuartStubbs, map #19.
Item #60 - CORONELLI/NOLIN, Partie Orientale du Canada..., 1689
60. CORONELLI / NOLIN
PARTIE ORIENTALE du CANADA ou de la NOUVELLE
FRANCE ou sont les Provinces, ou Pays de SAGVENAY,
CANADA, ACADIE etc..., Dressée sur les Memoires les plus
Nouveaux Par le P. Coronelli Cosmographe de la Serenisme
Rep. de VENISE. Corrigée et augmentée Par le Sr Tillemon; et
Dediée A Monsieur l’Abbé BAVDRAND Par son tres humble
Serviteur I. B. Nolin A PARIS Chez I. B. NOLIN sur le Quay
de l’Horloge du Palais, proche le Pont-Neuf a l’Enseigne de la
Place des Victoires. Avec Privilege du Roy. 1689, Paris, 1689.
17 1/2” x 23 1/8”.
Engraving, later outline
color. Excellent condition.
$3,500.
the Great Lakes, but on a smaller scale.
The map is noted for its excellent engraved style and for
the French political claims to both sides of the St.
Lawrence and the Maritime provinces. This is the second
state of the map with the address of the publisher changed
to “Pont-/Neuf”. ref: Kershaw, map #160.
61. VISSCHER, NICOLAAS
NOVA TABULA GEOGRAPHICA COMPLECTENS BOREALIOREM AMERICÆ PARTEM; IN QUA EXACTÆ
DELINEATÆ SUNT CANADA SIVE NOVA FRANCIA,
NOVA SCOTIA, NOVA ANGLIA, NOVUM BELGIUM,
The earliest French map of
the English colonies in
North America. Based on
Franquelin’s map of 1681, it
is identifiable by the elongated coastline of Labrador.
As mentioned above,
Coronelli enjoyed access to
the manuscripts from Jolliet,
LaSalle, and the Jesuits. His
collaboration with Jean
Baptiste Nolin, engraver to
Louis XIV, must have aided
him in reviewing official
material.
In effect, this map, though
completely separate, is the
other half of the 1688 map of
Item #61 - VISSCHER, Nova Tabula Geographica..., 1690
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PENSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, CAROLINA, ET
TERRA NOVA, CUM OMNIBUS LITTORUM
PULVINORUMQUE PROFUNDITATIBUS.
AMSTELODAMI, â NICOLAO VISSCHER.
Cum Privilegio Ordinum Generalium Fœderati
Belgii. CARTE NOUVELLE CONTENANT LA
PARTIE D’AMERIQUE LA PLUS SEPTENTRIONALE..., Amsterdam, [1690].
23 1/8” x 35”. Engraving, original color.
Some repairs to folds. Light staining to lower
left. Generally very good. $3,600.
This map consists of two individual maps
joined together to provide a continuous
coastline of North America
from the
Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the St.
Lawrence.
This is the first state of the map which was
published in Frederick de Wit’s Atlas major
among others.
Two subsequent states are known from the
eighteenth century.
The second state
appends “Nunc apud Petrum Schenk junior”(see map
#80) and a third state dating from 1745 revises the shape
of Cape Breton and adds an inset of Louisbourg.
ref: Kershaw, map #319.
Item #63 - MORTIER, Le Canada..., 1690
converted Indian to heaven. It is based on Bleau’s 1648
wall map with very little deviation.
Distinguishing features include California as an island
and the St. Lawrence emptying from a single gigantic
Great Lake. This is the second state of the map
with the privilege added to the plate in 1677.
Visscher died in 1679 but his son continued the
output. Derivative maps were produced by
Schagen, Ogilby, DeWit, De Ram, Danckerts,
Ottens, and others. ref: Burden, map #332;
McLaughlin, map #48.
63. MORTIER, PIERRE
LE CANADA ou Partie DE LA NOUVELLE
FRANCE, CONTENANT LA TERRE DE
LABRADOR LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, Les Isles
DE TERRE NEUVE, de NOSTRE DAME &c: A
AMSTERDAM Chez PIERRE MORTIER Avec
Privilege, Amsterdam, [c. 1690].
21 7/8” x 30 3/4”. Engraving. Strong original
color. Excellent condition. $2,000.
Pierre Mortier based this map strictly on the 1685
map of Jaillot, who in turn had carefully consulted
the manuscript drafts of Jolliet and Hennepin, as
well as Franquelin, serving as cartographer to the
Governor of New France. Lake Superior is based
Item #62 - VISSCHER, Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae..., 1680
on the Dablon prototype
Mortier’s selection of sources was well considered.
The
representation of Hudson Bay is superior to
62. VISSCHER, NICOLAAS
many English maps, although the longitude required
Novissima et Accuratissima TOTIUS AMERICÆ DESCRIPadjustment further westward.
TIO per N. VISSCHER. cum Privil: Ordin: General: Belgii
This is the first state of the map. Mortier was responsiFœderati, Amsterdam, c. 1658/80.
ble
for many finely engraved maps and borrowed from
17 1/8” x 21 3/8”. Engraving, original outline color.
many
well-known cartographers. He preferred a simple
Excellent condition. $2,800.
title to a more elaborate cartouche. On his death in 1724
he was succeeded by his son, Corneille Mortier, who
This map of the Western Hemisphere is noted for its
formed a partnership with Jean Covens. They continued
influence and decorative properties including a cartouche
map production of many of Pierre Mortier’s maps.
dedicated to Cornelis Witsen, showing angels escorting a
ref: Verner and Stuart-Stubbs, map #9; Kershaw, map #176.1.
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date. The third and final issue
was imprinted 1715 with the
name “J. F. Bernard”.
Very few copies of any state
survive because they were
used on shipboard for navigation and pilotage. This is the
eastern sheet only of the first
state. ref: Heidenreich and Dahl.
Item #64 - MORTIER, Carte Nouvelle De L’Amerique Angloise..., 1695
64. MORTIER, PIERRE
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 sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles PAR LE
SIEUR S A AMSTERDAM Chez PIERRE MORTIER Libraire
Avec Privilege de nos Seignuers les Etats [Second title box:]
PARTIE ORIENTALE DE L AMERIQUE ANGLOISE A
AMSTERDAM Chez PIERRE MORTIER Libraire Avec
Privilege de nos Seignuers les Etats, Amsterdam, [1695].
23 3/8” x 35 7/8”. Engraving. Original color. Cracking
with some loss where color has oxidized paper. Some discoloration. $950.
66. MORDEN, ROBERT
A NEW MAP OF THE ENGLISH
EMPIRE IN AMERICA VIZ
VIRGINIA MARYLAND CAROLINA PENNSYLVANIA NEW
YORK NEW IARSEY NEW
ENGLAND
NEWFOUNDLAND NEW FRANCE &c by Rob
Morden, London, 1695.
19 5/8” x 23 1/4”. Engraving.
Original
outline
color.
Excellent condition. $17,000.
A map of eastern North America with a prominent
mountain range down the spine of Michigan.
Robert Morden was a prominent London geographer
and publisher who issued Geography Rectified and
included this map.
For Great Lakes cartophiles, this map has long been a
standard. It also includes insets of Boston and the North
Atlantic.
A 2-sheet map of North America in which one sheet is a
derivative of the Morden map (#66). It repeats the mountain range running west from the Carolinas and another
range from the Michigan peninsula to central Florida.
Boston harbor is inset.
The political importance of the map is to show lands
claimed and settled by the English and French.
65. DESHAYES
[PELEZ DE CANADA DE ST LAURENS] RIV. DE ST LAURENS A Paris Chez N. de Fer dans l’Isle du Palais sur le Quay de
l’Orloge a la Sphere Royale Avec permission du Roi, Paris, 1695.
23 3/4” x 19”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $2,400.
Jean Deshays came to Quebec in 1685 to assist Jacques
Cassini in observing the eclipse in order to plot longitude.
During Deshays time in Canada he made the first hydrographic survey of the St. Lawrence. He returned to publish
it in 1695 with Nicolas de Fer as printer. Deshays received
appointment as first Hydrographer of New France and
returned to Quebec in 1702, dying there in 1706.
A second printing of the chart was undertaken without
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Item #65 - DESHAYES, Pelez de Canada..., 1695
FIRST STATE
19” x 22 1/8”. Engraving.
Excellent condition. $2,500.
Original color.
Pieter Schenk was a publisher and engraver in
Amsterdam who bought plates from Blaeu,
Janson, and Visscher. This map is part of the
decorative tradition for Western Hemisphere
maps. The North American cartography is
taken from the Sanson-Jaillot prototype of 1674.
Unusual is a separate title for both North and
South America . The map was included in
Schenk’s Atlas Contractus. The western Great
Lakes are shown open ended, following
Sanson. ref: McLaughlin, map #120.
Item #66 - MORDEN, A New Map of the English Empire..., 1695
This is the first state of the map. A second state appeared
under the imprint of John Senex in 1719 (see map #102)
.ref: Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 63.
67. SCHENK, PIETER
AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS. Novissima. / AMERICA
MERIDIONALIS. accuratissima. P Schenk ex: Amstelœd: cum
Privil., Amsterdam, 1695.
Item #68 - CORONELLI, Lovisiana..., 1696
68. CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
LOVISIANA Parte Settent~ Descritta Dal P.
Cosmografo Coronelli/ISOLA DI CAPO BRETON, [Venice, 1696].
15 3/8” x 10 1/4”. Engraving. Two maps
printed onto one sheet, common ornamental
border added. Very good condition. $800.
Cornonelli’s interest included the publication of two maps on a single sheet—one
showing the Great Lakes and a second map
of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.
The Great Lakes material derives from his
own compilation of sources used on the 1688
map.
Item #67 - SCHENK, America Septentrionalis..., 1695
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LARGE SCALE CORONELLI MAP OF NORTH AMERICA
Item #69 - CORONELLI, America Settentrionale..., 1696
69. CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
AMERICA SETTENTRIONALE Colle Nuoue Scoperte fin
all’Anno 1688 Divisa nelle sue parti secondo lo Stato presente e
Descritta dal P. Mro Coronelli M.C. Cosmografo della
Serenisma Repubca di Venezia. Dedicata All’Illmo et Reumo
Monsigr Felic’ Antonio Marsilÿ, Archidiacono della Catedrale
de Bologna, [Venice], 1696.
Each sheet: 24 1/8” x 17 5/8”; assembled: 24 1/8” x 35
1/4”. Engraving. Two sheets. Some smudging on sheet
two. Otherwise excellent condition. $13,000.
A magnificent engraving, it is a testament to Coronelli’s
ability to bring Venice to the forefront of the map publishing trade.
Coronelli conceived the map in Paris in 1681-3,
where he had access to court documents, including
the letters and papers of La Salle.
Upon his return to Venice in 1684, he founded a
geographical society which served as a funding entity for projects such as the engraving of America
Settentrionale. Marsili, archbishop of Bologna, to
whom the map was dedicated, was affiliated with
this society.
On the map, the Great Lakes region is most accurate, but California remains an island and the
Mississippi exits into the Gulf far to the west. ref:
Parker, map #10; McLaughlin, map #103.
70. CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
LA LOVISIANA, Parte Settentrionalle, Scoperta sotto la
Protettione di LUIGI XIV, Rè di Francia, et c: Descritta, e
Dedicata Dal P. Cosmografo Coronelli, All’Illustriss; et
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Eccellentiss: S. Zaccaria Bernardi, fù dell’Ecc: S. Francesco,
[Venice], 1696.
10 1/4” x 16 1/2”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,900.
Sometimes known as the “small Coronelli” to differentiate it from the 1688 version, this map puts all Great Lakes
in their correct order. Clearly evident is the Ottawa River
route into Georgian Bay, the Dablon version of Lake
Superior, and a comparatively well developed conception
of Green Bay.
The map makes an effort to depict the headwaters of the
Mississippi and vignettes of tribal activity. It was originally published in Atlante veneto. ref: Parker, map #14;
Karpinski, p. 117.
Item #70 - CORONELLI, La Lovisiana..., 1696
This was the second map of Fr. Hennepin to be
included in Nouvelle decouverte d’un tres grand
pays, after he re-established himself in Utrecht. The
map area includes the entire North American continent with the river routes into the interior supporting French claims. The error of the other map is
repeated here particularly with the Mississippi too
far west and with no delta at the mouth. California
is shown as an island and an inset of a hypothetical
landform between Asia and North America.
The seller of the 1697 book was G. Broedelet . The
1698 book from which this map was taken was C.
Specht—attributed on the map and therefore the second state. Obviously the book proved popular and
it may be a function of Hennepin’s desire for acclaim
that he contracted two other Dutch publishers for
additional distribution. ref: McLaughlin, map #124;
Goss, map #47.
Item #71 - HENNEPIN, Carte d’un tres grand Pais..., 1697
71. HENNEPIN, LOUIS
CARTE d’un tres grand PAIS Nouvellement découvert dans
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE entre le NOUVEAU
MEXIQUE et la Mer Glaciale avec le Cours du Grand Fleuve
MESCHASIPI Dediée a GULLIAUME IIIE Roy de la Grand
Brettagne Par le R.P. LOUIS DE HENNEPIN Mission: Recol:
et Not: Apost: Chez G. BROEDELET a Utreght, Utrecht,
1697.
15” x 18”. Engraving. Strong impression. Clean tear
repaired. Trimmed close at margins and backed with
japanese paper. Generally very good.. $3,000.
Fr. Louis de Hennepin, a member of the Recollect Order
of Franciscans accompanied LaSalle on part of his journey
down the Mississippi. He published an account
of the journey, Description de la Louisiane in
1683 which was later expanded when Hennepin
fled Paris for Utrecht in 1687. The publication
of Nouvelle decouverte d’un tres grand pays
was undertaken with an unsupported account
of preceeding LaSalle to the upper Mississippi.
The map shows an eastern North America
with exaggerated Great Lakes, Hudson Bay too
far to the east and a Mississippi River too far to
the west—particularly its exit into the Gulf.
However, the conception of the map, with river
and lake routes into the interior, demonstrates
the importance of the French and missionary
claims. ref: Parker, map #18.
72. HENNEPIN, LOUIS
Amerique Septentrionalis CARTE d’un tres grand
PAYS entre le NOUVEAU MEXIQUE et la MER
GLACIALE Dediée a GULLIAUME IIIE ROY DE
LA GRAND BRETAGNE Par le R.P. LOUIS DE
HENNEPIN Mission: Recol: et Not: Apost: Chez C.
SPECHT a Utreght 1698, Utrecht, 1698.
17” x 20 5/8”. Engraving. Original color.
Excellent condition. $3,000.
73. SCHERER, HEINRICH
AMERICA BOREALIS. 1699, [Munich], 1699.
9” x 13 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,400.
Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) was a Jesuit and Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Munich. Among other
geographical works, he authored an 8 volume Atlas
Novus published over the period 1702-10.
The map series has received attention because of references to California as an island but the centrality of the
Great Lakes has not been noted or studied.
Perhaps because Fr. Scherer used Jesuit sources he places
the Great Lakes in a prominent position astride the continent. It remains to be studied why 6 plates were cut of a
virtually identical area.
This particular map has a simple title and scale of distances in French, German, and Italian. ref: McLaughlin,
map #128; Tooley, California as an Island, map #85.
Item #72 - HENNEPIN, Amerique Septentrionalis..., 1698
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Item #73 - SCHERER, America Borealis, 1699
Item #74 - SCHERER, America Borealis multis in locis..., 1699
74. SCHERER, HEINRICH
AMERICA BOREALIS multis in locis DEI MATREM colit &
honorat, et HÆC suis Cultoribus multos FAVORES &
Beneficia
præstat.
1699,
[Munich], 1699.
9” x 13 3/4”. Engraving.
Excellent condition. $1,400.
75. SCHERER, HEINRICH
RELIGIONIS CATHOLICÆ IN AMERICA BOREALI DISSEMINATÆ
REPRÆSENTATIO
GEOGRAPHICA,
[Munich], 1703.
8 1/2” x 13 1/2”. Engraving.
Excellent condition. $1,400.
Sherer oriented this map to a
more south westerly position
and bestowed a more elaborate cartouche depicting a
native looking to the heavens.
Cartographically, it shows
the same topography as his
other maps. From a bibliographic standpoint, it can
only be speculated why
Sherer chose to create additional maps of the same area.
ref: McLaughlin, map #129.
Item #75 - SCHERER, Religionis Catholicae in America..., 1703
Another map by Heinrich
Scherer printed in vol. 2 of
the Atlas Novus. The elaborate cartouche depicts Christ
on the cross and a representative sample of ethnicities
kneeling before him.
On this map, the lines of latitude and longitude have
been deleted but the modified stereographic projection
is the same as his earlier
maps. ref: McLaughlin, map
#161.
76. SANSON, GUILLAUME / SANSON,
NICOLAS
ANTLANTIS INSULA, à NICOLAO SANSON Antiquitati Restituta; Nunc demum
Majori Forma delineata, et in decem REGNA,
Iuxta decem Neptuni Filios Distributa.
Præterea INSULÆ, NOSTRÆQ~ CONTINENTIS REGIONES quibus Imperavere
ATLANTICI REGES; aut quas Armis
Tentavere. ex Conatibus Geographicis
GULIELMI SANSON NICOLAI FILII.
MDCLXVIIII. Cum Privilegio ad Viginti
Annos. LUTETIÆ PARISIORUM. Apud
Autorem in Ædibus Regiis 1690, Paris, 1690.
15 5/8” x 22”. Engraving, original outline
color. Excellent condition. $600.
Item #76 - SANSON, Antlantis Insula..., 1690
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This map has special appeal for the Great
Lakes collectors because it is a thematic
version on the Sanson prototype of the
lakes first unveiled in 1650.
The map is designed as a historic docu-
ment to show the European context of pre-settlement. The Sanson family was in decline from
the map and atlas trade at this point. Nicolas
(1600-67) had died and son Guillaume (d. 1703)
prepared the Western Hemisphere map naming
regions after the 10 sons of Neptune. The work
continued under Hubert Jaillot, with stock also
going to the 18th century firm founded by Gilles
Robert de Vaugondy.
The 1690 map is the third state of five with production beginning in 1669 and ending in 1741. ref:
Tooley, California as an Island, map #51; M.S. Pedley,
Bel et Utile, London, 1992; Burden, map #405.
77. SCHERER, HEINRICH
IDEA NATVRALIS AMERICÆ BOREALIS DIGITO DEI FORMATA GEOGRAPHICE PROPOSITA AN. MDCC., [Munich], 1700.
8 3/4” x 13 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,400.
Another map from Heinrich Scherer’s Atlas
Novus. The map is slightly larger in scale than
the others but with the same format and projec-
Item #78 - WELLS, A New Map of North America..., 1700
French tradition of having the Mississippi enter the Gulf
far west of its true mouth. ref: McLaughlin, map #142;
Tooley, map #69.
79. DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. Dressée sur les
Observations de Mrs de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, &
quelques autres & sur les Memoires les plus recens, Par G. DE
L’ISLE Geographe. A PARIS. Chez l’Autheur sur le Quai de
l’Horloge Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20. ans. 1700, Paris,
1700.
17 7/8” x 23 5/8”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $1,500.
Item #77 - SCHERER, Ideanatvralis Americae Borealis..., 1700
R. V. Tooley describes this as a “foundation map”. In it,
De l’Isle reverts to a peninsula form for California and corrects longitude positions which then repositions the
tion. The primary title is capped with a globe
revealing the western hemisphere and a second cartouche at the lower left corner configured with exotic animals. ref: McLaughlin,
map #140.
78. WELLS, EDWARD
A New Map of NORTH AMERICA Shewing its
Principal Divisions, Chief Cities, Towns, Rivers,
Mountains &c. Dedicated To His Highness
WILLIAM Duke of Glocester, London, 1700.
14 1/2” x 19 3/8”. Engraving. Original color.
Excellent condition. $800.
Edward Wells (1667-1727) was a mathematician and geographer. This map was intended
for schools and consequently its details are
spare.
The Great Lakes have a peculiar shape with
mountain ranges spanning both sides of the
Mississippi River. And Wells follows the
Item #79 - DE L’ISLE, L’Amerique Septentrionale..., 1700
33
mouth of the Mississippi with more precision
towards the east.
The Great Lakes are derived from Coronelli, which
further diminishes the influence of the Sanson prototype. ref: Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 19.
80. SCHENK, PIETER / VISSCHER, NICOLAAS
NOVA TABULA GEOGRAPHICA COMPLECTENS
BOREALIOREM
AMERICÆ
PARTEM; IN QUA EXACTE DELINEATÆ SUNT
CANADA SIVE NOVA FRANCIA, NOVA SCOTIA, NOVA ANGLIA, NOVUM BELGIUM, PENSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, CAROLINA, ET TERRA
NOVA, CUM OMNIBUS LITTORUM PULVINORUMQUE PROFUNDITATIBUS, AMSTLODAMI, à NICOLAO VISSCHER. Cum Privilegio
Ordinum Generalium Fœderati Belgii. Nunc apud
Petrum Schenk Iunior, Amsterdam, 1700.
23 3/8” x 18 5/8”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $1,900.
The Visscher version and first state of this map
has been described above in #61.
As indicated, it shows the northeast coast of
North America, from the Carolinas to Maine and inland to
the Great Lakes. It depicts all of Lake Ontario and parts of
Lakes Huron and Erie.
Schenk’s name has been added as he acquired the plates
from Visscher. This is the second state of the map. ref:
Kershaw, map #320.
Item #81 - OTTENS, Amerique Septentrionale..., 1700
81. OTTENS, REINIER & JOSHUA / JAILLOT,
HUBERT / SANSON, NICOLAS
AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Divisée en Ses Principales
Parties. PRESENTÉ A MONSEIGNEUR LE DUC DE
BOURGOGNE Par Son Tres-humb: et tres Obeissa: Seruiteur.
H. IAILLOT A AMSTERDAM Chez R. & J. OTTENS.
[Above neatline:] AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS IN SUAS
PRÆCIPUAS PARTES DIVISA, AD USUM SERENISSIMI
BURGUNDIÆ DUCIS, Amsterdam, [1700].
19” x 23 1/4”. Engraving, original color. Excellent condition. $800.
The Jaillot/Sanson map model for North America has
been listed in the 1674 version here as map #47. Here
California is reattatched and the western Great Lakes are
enclosed rather than the open endings of the Sanson.
The first state of this map was issued in Paris in 1694 with
a double title and cartouche surrounding the various
scales in various national units of measure.
A second state was produced by Reinier and Joshua
Ottens in Amsterdam who added their names within the
scale cartouche sometime after 1700. ref: McLaughlin, map
#113.
82. SCHERER, HEINRICH
REPRÆSENTATIO AMERICÆ BOREALIS CVIVS
PROVINCIÆ VERA FIDE ILLVMINATÆ VMBRAM NON
HABENT, RELIQVÆ VMBRIS IMMERSÆ SVNT,
[Munich], 1703.
9 3/8” 13 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,400.
Item #80 - SCHENK, Nova Tabula Geographica..., 1700
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Another map from the Heinrich Scherer Atlas Novus
with a large vignette depicting Christ in a cornfield
attended by 6 sickle bearing followers. ref: McLaughlin,
map #162.
This map, in the precious first state of “Rue de Canettes”
is a summation of 17th century mapping of Canada.
According to Heidenreich and Dahl, “It was the most
accurate map to date and the first to depict lattitude and
longitude more or less correctly.”
Guillaume De l’Isle had studied under the astronomer,
Jean Cassini, and created “not only the most current map
of New France, it was also the first to depict a fairly accurate geographical grid.”
This is the first printed map to show Detroit, founded
two years prior by Cadillac. In addition, the sources for
new information on James Bay came through Franquelin
of two little-known expeditions by the trader Jean Pere
and the military scout led by Chevalier de Troyes.
There is recognition of the Great Salt Lake from Indian
stories but the river connections in between derive from
Item #82 - SCHERER, Repraesentatio Americae Borealis.., 1703
83. DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME &
CLAUDE
CARTE DU CANADA OU DE LA
NOUVELLE
FRANCE
et
des
Decouvertes qui y ont été faites. Dressée
sur plusieurs Observations et sur un
grand nombre de Relations imprimées ou
manuscrites Par Guillaume De l’Isle
Geographe de l’Academie Royale des
Sciences A PARIS Chez l’Auteur Rue des
Canettes prez de St Sulpice avec Privilege
de sa Majte pour 20 ans. 1703, Paris.
19 1/2” x 25 1/4”.
Engraving.
Original outline color. Excellent condition. $9,000.
Item #84 - LAHONTAN, Carte Que Les Gnacsitares.., 1703
RARE FIRST ISSUE OF DE L’ISLE’S MAP OF
CANADA AND THE GREAT LAKES
Item #83 - DE L’ISLE, Carte du Canada..., 1703
the fictitious if popular accounts of baron
Lahontan.
The map was very well received and
reprinted numerous times from the original plate until the 1790s, and was also produced as a Chatelain derivative. ref:
Heidenreich and Dahl; Schwartz and
Ehrenberg.
84. LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
CARTE QUE LES GNACSITARES ONT
DESSINÉ SUR des peaux de cerfs m’ayant fait
conoistre a 30 minutes prés les latitudes de tous
les lieux qui y sont marqués en me montrant la
partie du ciel vers laquelle gisent les uns et les
autres, apres m’en avoir donné les distances par
tazuoz, qui sont trois grandes lieues de France
selon ma supputation. CARTE DE LA RIVIERE LONGUE ET DE QUELQUES
AUTRES qui se dechargent dans le grand
fleuve de Missisipi, en let petit espace de ce
fleuve marqué sur cette carte, [The Hague],
1703.
11 x 26 1/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,800.
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MEXIQUE et la MER GLACIALE avec le Cours du Grand
Fleuve MESCHASIPI Dediée a GULLIAUME IIIE ROY DE
LA GRAND BRETAGNE Par le R.P. LOUIS DE HENNEPIN
Mission: Recol: et Not: Apost: Chez PIERRE vañ AA A Leiden
1704, Leiden, 1704.
15” x 17 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $2,500.
Item #85 - LAHONTAN, Lake of Hurons, 1703
Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce Baron de Lahontan published the very popular Nouveaux Voyages de M. le Baron
de Lahontan dans l’Amerique Septentrionale in 1703.
Lahontan created one of the more fanciful cartographic
traditions in describing the River Longue flowing westward into the Mississippi. This territority belonged to the
tribe of “Gnacsitares” and he indicates his passage with
overnight bivouacs along the river. The map also includes
a balloon-shaped Lakes Superior and Michigan, which
also have some currency with successor maps. ref:
Schwartz and Ehrenberg; Buisseret, map #11.
This is the Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) version of
Hennepin’s map of the same title. (See map #72) It was
included in the 1704 edition of Nouvelle decouverte d’un
tres grand pays situe dans l’Amerique.
87. DE FER, NICOLAS
LE CANADA, OU NOUVELLE FRANCE, la Floride, la
Viurginie, Pensilvanie, Caroline, Nouvelle Angleterre et Nouvelle
Yorck, l’Isle de Terre Neuve, la Loüisiane et le Cours de la Riviere de
Misisipi Par N. de Fer, Geographe de Monseig. le Dauphin. A
PARIS, Chez l’Auteur dans l’Isle dyu Palais sur le Quay de l’Orloge
a la Sphere Royale Avec Privilege du Roy 1705, Paris, 1705.
9” x 13 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent
condition. $875.
85. LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
LAKE OF HURONS, [The Hague], 1703.
4 1/4” x 6 1/2”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $80.
A small map showing the Straits of Mackinac and local
Indian settlements. This map is from the English edition
of Lahontan. By 1758, at least 25 editions and condensations of Nouveaux voyages had been published. See map
#90 for another representation.
86. HENNEPIN / VAN DER AA
CARTE d’un tres grand PAIS Nouvellement découvert dans
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE entre le NOUVEAU
Item #87 - DE FER, Le Canada..., 1705
Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) was the Geographer to
Louis XIV and between in various editions between
1700 and 1717 brought forth a 4-volume L’Atlas
Curieux.
The small map of Eastern North America appeared
variously in v.2 and v.4 showing French and English
territorial claims. The engraver was Herman van
Loon, formerly of Amsterdam, who worked in Paris
after 1686 for De l’Isle and Nolin among others. ref:
Karpinski, p. 124, pl. 9.
Item #86 - HENNEPIN, Carte d’un tres grande Pais..., 1704
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88. DE FER, NICOLAS / VAN LOON, H.
QUEBEC, Ville de l’Amerique Septentrionale dans la
Nouvelle France avec Titre d’Eveché. Située sur le Fleuve
de St Laurent a 310. Degrez 17. Minutes de Longitudes et
46. Degr. 55. Minutes de Latitudes elle fut assiegée par les
Anglois sur les François par qui elle est encore possedée l’an
1670 depuis le 16e Octobre Jusqu’a 22. du meme mois.
Monsr de Frontenac estant pour lors Gouverneur du Paÿs
qui leur fit honteusement lever le Siege. A PARIS, Chez le
Sr de Fer dans l’Isle du Palais sur le Quay de l’Orloge a la
The Vander Aa map was published in his own Nouvel
Atlas of 1714 and also in his 1713 Le nouveau theatre du
monde. ref: Kershaw, map #327.
Item #88 - DE FER, Quebec..., 1705
Sphere Royale Avec Privilege du Roy. 1705, Paris, 1705
(repub. 1716 DeFer atlas).
8 1/8” x 11 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,200.
This is the only graphic documentation of the futile
American attack on Quebec in 1690. King William’s war
had begun in February with the French and Indian massacre of the Schenectady garrison. That spring, raids and
counter-raids inflamed the entire frontier along New York
and New England.
Representatives of several colonies met in July and plotted a two pronged attack on Quebec City designed to put
an end to fighting. However, the prong of colonial troops
and Indians turned back at Lake Champlain, leaving the
other prong, a motley navy of 34 ships, to set sail from
Boston not knowing that the army they intended to meet
would not be there.
Sir William Phips, born in Maine, commanded the ships
and transports down the St. Lawrence and disembarked
1400 troops (it may have seemed like 2000 as indicated on
the map). However, the French militia under Frontenac
was prepared for the siege and ships of Phips flotilla
expended amunition in a wasteful duel with shore batteries, emptying reserves needed for the attack. After 5 cold
days and nights ashore, with numerous cases of frostbite,
the colonials reboarded their transports and in midOctober, sailed back to Boston.
The historian Cotton Mather felt the defeat was New
England’s punishment for sinful living. Phips, however,
eventually became Governor of Massachusetts.
89. VAN DER AA, PIETER
CANADA ou NOUVELLE FRANCE, Suivant les Nouvelles
Observations de Messrs de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, etc.
Augmentées de Nouveau. A LEIDE. Chez PIERRE VANDER
AA. Avec Privilege., Leiden, 1714.
8 7/8” x 11 3/4”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $300.
This is the first state of the Vander Aa map of Canada. Its
source is the De l’Isle map of 1703. It was made on a
reduced scale but includes the same territory and follows
the De l’Isle format for the Great Lakes.
Item #89 - VAN DER AA, Camada ou Nouvelle France..., 1714
90. LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
LAC DES HURONS, [The Hague], 1707.
5 3/4” x 3 1/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $100.
A map of the Straits of Mackinac from Nouveaux voyages. See map #85.
Item #90 - LAHONTAN, 1707
91. NOLIN, JEAN BAPTISTE
LE GLOBE TERRESTRE REPRESENTÉ DEUX PLANSHEMISPHERES Dressé sur la Projection de Mr de la Hyre de
l’Academie Royale des Sciences, et sur plusieurs Routiers et
Memoires des plus habiles Pilotes et Savans Voyageurs le tout
rectifié et calculé selon les dernieres observations et Dedié A
MGR LABBÉ BIGNON CONSEILLER D’ETAT ORDINAIRE Par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur I. B.
NOLIN Geographe ordinaire du ROI. A PARIS Chez l’Auteur
sur le Quay de l’Horloge du Palais a l’Enseigne de la Place
desVictoires Vers le Pont-Neuf AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROI
1708, Paris, 1708.
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Item #91 - NOLIN, Le Globe Terrestre..., 1708
Sheets 1 and 2 (N.H.): 18 3/8” x 24 3/4”; sheets 3 and 4
(S.H.): 20” x 24 3/4”; sheets 5 and 8 (sidebars): 46 3/8” x 9
1/2”; sheets 6 and 7 (bottom text): 8” x 24 3/4”.
Assembled: 46 3/8” x 59”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Seven sheets. Excellent condition. $55,000.
92. VAN DER AA, PIETER
LAND en VOLK-ONTDEKKING in’t Noorder gedeelte van
AMERICA. door P. MARQUETTE en JOLIET; daan in’t Jaar
1673, Leiden, [1707].
8 5/8” x 11 3/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $300.
The great wall map of Jean Baptiste Nolin in seven
sheets. The double hemispheres are supported by mythical figures and the map area is surrounded by an elaborate border panel of 16 biblical scenes.
The elegant production is a marriage of the artistry of the
painter Bocquet who carried out Nolin’s conception.
The first state of 1700 included an
enormous Mer de l’Quest from the coast of California to
the Great Basin of North America.
In the second state of 1708, of which this is an example,
all continents have been recut and the size of the Mer de
l’Quest much reduced. The dedication is now to the Abbe
Bignon. The Great Lakes was also changed. ref: Shirley,
map #605.
Item #92 - VAN DER AA, Land en Volk-Ontdekking..., 1707
38
DE FER WALL MAP OF NORTH AMERICA
Pieter van der Aa charted the length of the Mississippi
River from source to mouth in this map oriented with east
at the top. The geography shows the influence of
Hennepin in that the river empties into the Gulf far to the
west. The discoveries of Marquette and Joliet are featured
and the Great Lakes appear in the upper left.
The map appeared originally in the obscure
Naaukeurige versameling of 1707 but was included that
same year in Aa’s Cartes des itineraires & voyages and
again in the Dutch edition of Marquette’s Ontdekking van
eenige Landen, also of 1707. ref: Tooley, MCC 68, map #33;
LeGear, Atlases, v.5, #5482; Buisseret, map #9.
93. DE FER, NICOLAS
CARTE DE LA MER DU SUD, ET DES COSTES
D’AMERIQUE ET D’ASIE, SITUÉES SUR CETTE MER.
Par N. DE FER Geographe de sa Majesté Catolique avec
Privilege du Roy 1713. / CARTE DE LA MER DU NORD, ET
DES
COSTES
D’AMERIQUE,
D’EUROPE
ET
D’AFRIQUE, SITUÉES SUR CETTE MER. Par N. DE FER
Geographe de sa Majesté Catolique avec Privilege du Roy 1713,
Paris, 1713.
Sheets 1 and 6: 20” x 14 1/2”; sheets 2, 3, 7 and 8: 20” x 14
5/8”; sheets 4 and 9: 20” x 14 3/4”; sheets 5 and 10: 20” x
15 7/8”; sheet 11: 6 1/4” x 14 1/2”; sheets 12 and 13: 6
1/4” x 14 5/8”; sheet 14: 6 1/4” x 14 3/4”; sheet 15: 6 1/4”
x 15 7/8”; assembled: 46 1/4” x 74 3/8”. Engraving.
Fifteen sheets, mounted on paper. Restored tears on
every sheet with minor loss of printed surface. Fair condition. $26,000.
Nicolas de Fer’s panoramic map is a visual encyclopedia
of geographic information and history. It is in many ways
a boroque masterpiece, with vignettes and views of harbors, plants, animals and fortifications filling open spaces
in the ocean. At the top are nine portraits of famous navigators.
The cartography focuses on the New World but is still a
summary of the 17th century with the Mississippi entering the Gulf far to the west of its true Delta and of course
California as an island. What may be a worthy notation is
that the land mass of Asia and the Indian Ocean is left out
altogether to concentrate on the sea routes to the Western
Hemisphere.
The resulting effect owes much to the engraver, P.
Starckman. The famous scene of beavers constructing a
dam at the base of Niagara Falls is included as are routes
of circumnavigation.
This map was the model for Henri Chatelain’s 1719 Carte
tres curieuse de la mer du Sud. ref: Schwartz and Ehrenberg;
McLaughlin, map #186.
94. MOLL, HERMAN
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 By HERMAN MOLL
Geographer. Sold by H. Moll over against Deverux Court in the
Item #93 - DE FER, Carte de la Mer du Sud..., 1713
(one of fifteen sheets)
Strand. To the Honourable WALTER DOWGLASS Esqr
Constituted CAPTAIN GENERAL and Chief Governor of all ye
Leeward Islands in America by her late Majesty Queen Anne in
ye Year 1711. This Map is most Humbly Dedicated by your
most Humble Servant Herman Moll Geogr. 1715, [London],
1715.
40” x 24”. Engraving, original color. Some damage to
margins with repairs and minor loss of printed surface.
Otherwise very good condition. $4,500.
Known to history as “The Beaver Map”from its inset
showing beavers carrying wood or with mortar on their
tails to construct dams “in order to form a great lake”. The
resultant cataract of Niagara is the product of their industry.
Herman Moll was assuredly of Dutch origin. He went to
London as an engraver and became a naturalized citizen.
His 2-sheet maps, of which this is one, reflect strong opinions about British territorial claims—here they proceed to
the southern edge of the St. Lawrence. Moll is known for
his scene of the beavers but in fact, he borrowed it from a
map by Nicolas de Fer published in 1698.
This is a variant of the first state with the imprint reading, “Sold by H. Moll over against Deverux Court in the
Strand”. ref: Kershaw, map #331; Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p.
138; Campbell, Early Maps, p. 37.
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MOLL’S FAMOUS “BEAVER” MAP
Bowles’s Atlas Minor, a republication of the
Moll maps in 1781.
96. DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME
CARTE DU CANADA OU DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE et des Decouvertes qui y ont
été faites Dressée sur plusieurs Observations et
sur un grand nombre de Relations imprimées ou
manuscrites Par Guillaume De l’Isle de
l’Academie Royale des Sciences et Premier
Geographe du Roy A PARIS Chez l’Auteur sur le
Quai de l’Horloge a l’Aigle d’Or avec Privilege de
sa Majte pour 20. ans 1703, Paris, 1718.
19 1/2” x 25 3/8”. Engraving, original outline color. Excellent condition. $1,200.
A first edition, fifth state of the famous De
l’Isle Carte du Canada with the imprint now
altered to “Quai de l’Horlage” and recognition of De l’Isle’s new rank of “Premier
Geographe du Roy”. The approximate time
frame for this later impression was 1718.
There are no changes to the cartography of
the map with the same careful rendering of
all five Great Lakes. ref: Kershaw, map #312;
Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 20.
97. DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME
CARTE DE LA LOUISIANE ET DU COURS
DU MISSISSIPI Dressée sur un grand nombre
de Memoires entrautres sur ceux de Mr le Maire
Par Guillaume Delisle de l Academie Rle des
Sciences, Paris, 1718.
19” x 25 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $11,000.
This is a map of firsts: the first accurate map
to show the Mississippi River to the Delta. It
is the first to name Texas, “Mission de los
Teijas etablie en 1716”. And it is the first to
show the expedition routes of Hernando de
Soto, Henri de Tonty, and Louis de St. Denis.
Item #94 - MOLL, A New and Exact Map ..., 1715
95. MOLL, HERMAN
A MAP of NEW FRANCE Containing CANADA,
LOUI:SIANA &c. in Nth AMERICA. According to the Patent
granted by the King of France to Monsieur Crozat, dated the 14th
of Sep. 1712, N. S. and regis:tred in the Parliament of Paris the
24th of the same Month. By H. Moll Geographer, [London], 1717.
7 3/8” x 10 1/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $150.
This small map of New France utilizes the curious
Lahontan configuration of the Great Lakes.
It achieved wide circulation beginning with publication
in Moll’s 1717 Atlas Geographus, v.5, later in Thomas
Osborne’s 1745 Collection of Voyages, and later still in
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Item #95 - MOLL, A Map of New France..., 1717
98. DE FER, NICOLAS
LA FRANCE OCCIDENTALE DANS
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONAL OU LE
COURS DE LA RIVIERE DE ST LAURENS
Aux Environs de la quelle se Trouent LE
CANADA, L’ACADIE, ET LA GASPASIE Les
Esquimaux, Les Hurons, Les Iroquois, Les
Illinois & LA VIRGINIE, LA MARIE-LANDE,
LA PENSILVANIE, LE NOUVEAU JERSAY,
LA NOUVELLE YOURCK, LA NOUVELLE
ANGLETERRE et l’Isle de Terre-Neuve. Par N.
de Fer Geographe de sa Majesté Catolique 1718,
Paris, 1718.
Wall map. Engraving. Four sheets, each
trimmed and mounted on paper. Excellent
condition. $58,000.
Item #96 - DE L’ISLE, Carte du Canada..., 1718
William P. Cumming calls it, “One of the most important
mother maps of the North American continent.”
From a Great Lakes viewpoint, the map shows a high
plain down the spine of Michigan—an idea which gained
currency because of its otherwise reliable reputation. This
is the first state of the map without “New Orleans”. ref:
Schwartz and Ehrenberg; Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 21;
Cumming, map #170; Buisseret, map #12.
RARE FIRST STATE OF THE FIRST MAP TO NAME TEXAS
This is a remarkable wall map by Nicolas de
Fer. It has been described as the most valuable and informative map of French possessions in North America before 1760. In its
political representation of New France it is
comparable to John Mitchell’s great map of
1755 regarding the British claim to North
America.
Sheet One: 17 5/8” x 16 1/4”.
LA FRANCE OCCIDENTALE DANS
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONAL OU LE
COURS DE LA RIVIERE DE ST LAURENS
Aux Environs de la quelle se Trouent LE
CANADA..., Par N. de Fer Geographe de sa
Majesté Catolique 1718, Paris, 1718.
The title sheet contains an elaborate cartouche, a portion of the English colonies on
the Atlantic coast, and two elaborate insets
of Quebec City and approaches probably
from Franquelin manuscripts.
Sheet Two: 18 1/4” x 25”.
PARTIE MERIDIONALE DE LA RIVIERE
DE MISSISIPI, ET SES ENVIRONS dans
l’Amerique septentrionale. Mis au jour par N.
de Fer Geographe de sa Majesté Catolique 1718,
Paris, 1718.
This sheet very much resembles the same
area as De l’Isle’s Carte de la Louisiane (map
#97) in terms of the river network but augmented with Indian scenes and figures. It is
an exact copy of De l’Isle’s manuscript map
of 1701. A separate copy in the Clements
Library suggests that this sheet alone in distinction to the other three may have been
printed and sold separately.
Item #97 - DE L’ISLE, Carte de la Louisiane..., 1718
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Item #98 - DE FER, 1718 - Sheet Four: Le Cours du Missisipi...
Item #98 - DE FER, 1718 - Sheet Three: Untitled Sheet
Item #98 - DE FER, 1718 - Sheet Two: Partie Meridionale de la Riviere
Sheet Three: 20” x 16 1/2”.
The sheet of New England, the St. Lawrence, Labrador ,
and Newfoundland owes its origin to Franquelin’s later
manuscript maps or from others now lost. The St.
Lawrence river and estuary were drawn with precision.
However, Labrador and Northern Quebec appear bisected by a canal.
Sheet Four: 20 1/4” x 25 1/8”.
Le Cours du MISSISIPI, ou de ST LOUIS Fameuse Riviere de
l’Amerique Septentrionale aux Environs de laquelle se trouve le
Païs appellé LOUISIANE Dressée sur les Relations et
Memoires du Pere Hannepin et de Mrs de la Salle, Tonti,
Laontan, Ioustel, des Hayes, Joliet, et le Maire &c. PAR N. DE
FER Geographe de sa Majesté Catolique..., A PARIS Chez
l’Auteur Isle du Palais a la Sphere Royale. 1718. / LES
COSTES DE LA LOUISIANE DE PUIS LA BAYE DE L’AS42
Item #98 - DE FER, 1718 - Sheet One: La France Occidentale
CENSION JUSQUES A CELLE DE ST JOSEPH, ou se trouve les Embouchures des Rivieres Missisipi ou de St Loüis, de la
Mobile, de Pascagoula &c. aves les Isles, Ports et Habitations ou
Possessions des François, Paris, 1718.
The northwest map is divided. The top half is a large
scale map of the Mississippi delta and Mobile Bay. It is
based on the 1699 voyage of Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville
and appears as an inset to De l’Isle’s 1718 Carte de la
Louisiane. D’Iberville explored the mouth of the
Mississippi and its many tributaries, including the
Red River in Arkansas. Maps and reports were sent
back to Paris.
The lower part of the sheet shows the three upper
Great Lakes and some estimates on the configuration
of the Mississippi headwaters.
The cartouche surround is extraordinarily elaborate
with missionairies, Indians, and animals. In all, the
4-sheet map represents a fine balance of engraving
skill, cartographic accuracy, and French territorial
claims. ref: Verner and Stuart-Stubbs, map #11.
99. DE FER, NICOLAS
CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, où se voit le
cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. LAURENS & de MISSISSIPI Aujour d’hui S. LOUIS, Aux Environs desquelles se trouvent les ETATS, PAÏS, NATIONS, PEUPLES &c. de la FLORIDE, de la LOUÏSIANE, de la VIRGINIE, de la MARIE-LANDE, de la PENSILVANIE, du
NOUVEAU JERSAY, de la NOUVELLE YORCK, de la
NOUV. ANGLETERRE, de L’ACADIE, du CANADA..., pour L’ÉTABLISSEMENT de la COMPAGNIE
FRANÇOISE OCCIDENT, [Paris], 1719.
19 1/2” x 22 1/2”. Engraving. Original color. Repairs to
margins. Some minor discoloration, especially at centerfold. Generally very good condition. $2,900.
A one-sheet version of the four-sheet Nicolas de Fer map
of 1718 and published by de Fer. The cartography is virtually identical but the elaborate cartouches and sheet
titles have been simplified.
Item #99 - DE FER, Carte de la Nouvelle France..., 1719
100. DE FER, NICOLAS / OTTENS
CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, où se voit le cours des
Grandes Rivieres de S. LAURENS & de MISSISSIPI Aujour
d’hui S. LOUIS, Aux Environs des-quelles se trouvent les
ETATS, PAÏS, NATIONS, PEUPLES &c. de la FLORIDE, de
la LOUÏSIANE, de la VIRGINIE, de la MARIE-LANDE, de la
PENSILVANIE, du NOUVEAU JERSAY, de la NOUVELLE
YORCK, de la NOUV. ANGLETERRE, de L’ACADIE, du
CANADA..., pour L’ÉTABLISSEMENT de la COMPAGNIE
FRANÇOISE OCCIDENT, [Amsterdam], 1719.
19 1/2” X 21 1/2”. Engraving. Original color.
Excellent condition. $2,900.
This reduction of the four-sheet de Fer map onto one
sheet has been attributed to the Ottens family in
Amsterdam.
The Ottens were notorious for reproducing maps
without attribution and the engraving is solid and
indicates enough interest to take the risk of another
publication.
Item #100 - DE FER/OTTENS, Carte de la Nouvelle France..., 1719
101. CHATELAIN, HENRY ABRAHAM
CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, où se voit le
cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. LAURENS & de MISSISSIPI Aujourd’hui S. LOUÏS, Aux Environs desquelles se trouvent les ETATS, PAÏS, NATIONS, PEUPLES &c. de la FLORIDE, de la LOUÏSIANE, de la VIRGINIE, de la MARIE-LANDE, de la PENSILVANIE, du
NOUVEAU JERSAY, de la NOUVELLE YORCK, de la
NOUV. ANGLETERRE, de L’ACADIE, du CANADA,
des ESQUIMAUX, des HURONS, des IROQUOIS, des
ILINOIS &c. Et de la Grande Ile de TERRE NEUVE:
Dressée sur les MEMOIRES les plus NOUVEAUX
recueillis pour L’ÉTABLISSEMENT de la COMPAGNIE
FRANÇOISE OCCIDENT, [Amsterdam], 1719.
16 1/2” x 19”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,800.
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103. MOLL, HERMAN
To the Right Honourable JOHN Lord SOMMERS
BARON of Evesham in ye County of Worcester
PRESIDENT of Her MAJESTY’S most Honourable
PRIVY COUNCIL &c. This MAP of NORTH
AMERICA Accoding to ye Newest and most Exact
Observations is most Humbly Dedicated by your
Lordship’s most Humble Servant Herman Moll
Geographer..., and by Iohn King at the Globe in the
Poultry, [London, 1719].
22 5/8” x 37 7/8”. Engraving, original outline
color. Some tearing of margins. Repairs and minimal loss of printed surface along folds. Very
good condition. $3,500.
Item #101 - CHATELAIN, Carte de la Nouvelle France..., 1719
Henry Abraham Chatelain and Zacherie Chatelain
worked to produce the seven volume Atlas Historique
from 1705-20.
A one-sheet copy of the de Fer map appeared in volume
6 in 1719. Heidenreich and Dahl attribute the publishing
motive to promote the recently established Compagnie
Francoise Occident, as well as to reinforce French opinion
on the 1713 boundary settlement.
The Compagnie was formed to fund the debt of Louix
XIV and offered a guaranteed interest with additional
inducements of exemption from property taxes
in Louisiana and rights to purchase beavers in
Canada. As it turned out this scheme for emigration to Louisiana was successful, and the
French crown, whose policies had slowed
growth, used this model for other colonies in
Africa and the East Indies. ref: Verner and StuartStubbs, map #11.
A map known as “the codfishery map” because
of its elaborate vignette of harvesting cod in
Newfoundland.
Herman Moll held strong opinions and his
maps owe much to idiosyncratic views of territory and causality—like the beaver map, which
although not original gave great currency to the
industry of the beavers.
Here is a late example of California as an island,
by then disproved by Fr. Kino. In fact, Moll
claimed sailors had told him they had sailed entirely
around it. Again the Great Lakes were based on the peculiar design of Lahontan, and the fictious River Longue
was incorporated.
The territorial claims for Britain stand in sharp contrast to
the Francophile views of De l’Isle and de Fer. British claims
to Hudson Bay are extended to Labrador and the southern
boundry of the St. Lawrence River. ref: McLaughlin, map
#192; Schwartz and Ehrenberg; Goss, map #53.
102. SENEX, JOHN
A NEW MAP OF THE ENGLISH EMPIRE IN
AMERICA VIZ VIRGINIA MARYLAND CAROLINA NEW YORK NEW IARSEY NEW ENGLAND NEWFOUNDLAND NEW FRANCE &c
Revis’d by Ion Senex 1719, [London], 1719.
19 3/4” x 23 1/4”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $1,800.
John Senex, a London engraver and publisher
produced this map in 1719 as the last state of the
Morden map (see #66 above). Morden’s name
has been replaced with “Revised by Ion Senex
1719”. ref: Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 63.
Item #102 - SENEX, A New Map of the English Empire..., 1719
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Item #103 - MOLL, To the Right Homorable John Lord Sommers..., 1719
104. VAN KEULEN, GERARD
CARTE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, ou se voit le cours des
Grandes Rivieres de S. LAURENS & de MISSISSIPI
Aujourd’hui S. LOUIS, Aux Environs des-quelles se trouvent les
ETATS PAIS NATIONS PEUPLES &. de la FLORIDE, de la
LOUISIANE, de la VIRGINIE, de la MARIE-LANDE, de la
PENSILVANIE, du NOUVEAU JERSEY, de la NOUV: YORK,
de la NOUV: ANGLETERRE, de L’ACADIE, de CANADA...,
pour L’ETABLISSEMENT de la COMPAGNIE FRANÇOISE
OCCIDENT. A AMSTERDAM Chez GERARD van KEULEN
Marchand Libraire Avec Privilege, Amsterdam, 1720.
Sheet one: 22 7/8” 20”; sheet two: 22 3/4” x 19 7/8”;
assembled: 22 3/4” x 39 7/8”. Engraving. Original color.
Two sheets. Excellent condition. $12,600.
This is the first issue of a very uncommon map produced
by Gerard van Keulen, hydrographer of the Dutch East
India Company.
Gerard van Keulen died prematurely at age 49 in 1728 and
was considered the most talented member of his family.
The map encompasses more territory than traditional
French maps of Canada, extending west through New
Item #104 - VAN KEULEN, Carte de la Nouvelle France..., 1720
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14 1/2” x 17 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $500.
Chatelain’s map of all five Great Lakes and an accompanying list of Indian tribes in the vicinity.
The map was published in v.VI of Atlas Historique.
106. SENEX, JOHN
A MAP OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE RIVER MISSISSIPI
By Iohn Senex, [London], 1721.
19 1/8” x 22 3/4”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $1,800.
This represents the first British printed map to copy De
l’Isle’s 1718 map of Louisiana in showing the correct
meridian of the Mississippi delta. The French sources are
followed so carefully that the British colonies are seen
huddled against the Atlantic coast.
Senex provided a baroque cartouche showing Fame surItem #105 - CHATELAIN, Carte Particuliere..., 1720
Mexico. French claims extend to the Rio Grande. Legends
record information on settlements, forts, Indian tribes,
and routes and trails used in exploration. Only eight
British colonies are indicated.
Information from de Fer and De l’Isle on the Great Lakes
and Mississippi has been refined and recorded here in
more elaborate detail. The map, because of its scarcity,
represents a unique opportunity to the collector.
105. CHATELAIN, HENRY ABRAHAM
CARTE PARTICULIERE DU FLEUVE SAINT LOUIS
DRESSEE SUR LES LIEUX AVEC LES NOMS DES
SAUVAGES DU PAIS, DES MARCHANDISES QU’ON Y
PORTE & QU’ON EN REÇOIT & DES ANIMAUX,
INSECTES POISSONS, OISEAUX, ARBRES & FRUIT DES
PARTIES SEPTENTRIOES & MERIDIONES DE CE PAÏS,
[Amsterdam], 1720.
Item #106 - SENEX, A Map of Louisiana..., 1721
mounting the title with a river god pouring forth a great
stream of water. The map is dedicated to William Law
who is associated with the first great American financial
scam—the Mississippi Bubble of 1720.
107. SEUTTER, GEORGE MATTHÄUS
Accurata delineatio celeberrimæ Regionis LUDOVICIANÆ
vel Gallice LOUISIANE ol. Canadæ et Floridæ adpellatione
in Septemtrionali America descriptæ quæ hodie nomine fluminis MISSISSIPPI vel St LOUIS per colonias et navigationes Gallorum ob immensas opes et adfluentiam magis
magisque inclarescit ex fide digniss. Itinerariis consignata et
in lucem edita cura et manu MATTHÆI SEUTTERI,
S.C.M.G. AUGUSTAN, [Augsburg], 1730.
19 3/8” x 22 3/8”. Engraving. Later hand color.
Excellent condition. $1,800.
Item #107 - SEUTTER, Accurata delineatio..., 1730
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This is the German version of the large de Fer map of
New France (see #98).
George Matthaus Seutter (1678-1757) published maps
Sheet One
Sheet Two
Sheet Five
Sheet Six
Item #108 - POPPLE, A Map of the British Empire..., 1733
and atlases in Vienna and Augsburg. This map appeared
in his Atlas Novus of 1730. Once again, the influence of
de Fer’s cartography was expanded beyond France, as
was interest in the region depicted.
108. POPPLE, HENRY
[A MAP of the BRITISH EMPIRE in AMERICA with the
FRENCH, SPANISH and the DUTCH SETTLEMENTS adjacent thereto by Henry Popple], [London, 1733].
19 3/8” x 26 1/8” each sheet (4 total). Engraving.
Excellent condition. Sheets 1, 2, 5, and 6, of 20.
Sheet 1: $1,500, Sheet 2: $900, Sheet 5: $1,200, Sheet 6: $1,800.
Henry Popple’s magnificent map of America is represented here in four sheets of the Old Northwest and Ohio
River valley. The Great Lakes are fully represented (a copy
of the whole map is offerred here in the atlas section).
Popple made use of both French and English maps, with
De l’Isle’s Carte de la Louisiane figuring prominently as a
source. The Mississippi River system and its tributaries ,
the names and legends in the Mississippi Valley and the
“High Plain” in Michigan originated with De l’Isle. Other
borrowings were made from de Fer, and English maps
such as those of Cadwalader Colden and Col. Barnwell.
Popple had little training as a mapmaker or geographer
and only one other manuscript map is attributed to him.
His assistant in the process was Capt. Clement Lempriere
(d. 1746) who served as his designer and draftsman in the
Ordnance Office.
The map remains the first large-scale British map of
America and this four-sheet section from the northwest
corner includes the essential information on the Great
Lakes. ref: Cumming and Wallis “Introductory notes to Henry
Popple,” Lympne Castle, 1979.
109. POPPLE, HENRY
AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS. A MAP of the BRITISH
EMPIRE in AMERICA with the FRENCH and SPANISH SETTLEMENTS adjacent thereto by Hen. Popple, [London], 1733.
19 3/4” x 19 1/4”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Some repaired tears in upper margin with no loss of printed information. Otherwise very good condition. $2,000.
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Covens & Mortier reduced the size of the Popple map by
half and published it in a series of seven sheets in 1737.
The index map and the other six sheets are listed in the
descriptions following with separate titles for each map.
ref: Tooley, p. 315.
Index Sheet: 19 3/4” x 18 3/4”. (not pictured)
Sheet One: 19 1/8” x 24”. Trimmed close and uneven at
top. Otherwise excellent condition.LES PRINCIPALES
FORTERESSES PORTS &c. DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE [Covens & Mortier], [Amsterdam, 1737]. This
sheet contains the harbors, fortifications and city plans of
the Popple map.
Sheet Two: 11 3/4” x 22 3/4”. MEXICO/NEW YORK/
FALL of NIAGARA/ QUEBEC, [Amsterdam, 1737].Covens
and Mortier sheet from the Dutch Popple with views of
three North American cities and Niagara Falls.
Sheet Three: 23 1/4” x 20 1/2”.NOUVELLE CARTE PARTICULIÈRE DE L’AMÉRIQUE, OÙ SONT EXACTEMENT
MARQUÉES, une PARTIE de la BAYE D’HUDSON, le PAYS
Item #109 - POPPLE, America Septentrionalis..., 1733
The index map to the Popple 20-sheet map of the
British Empire. This is a reduction of the entire map
complete with insets of harbors, plans of cities, and
fortifications.
The map presents the scope and scale of the North
American continent in a way that had not been
available to British readers previously. An endorsement of its accuracy is attested by Edmund Halley,
but in fact, the map elicited criticism from contemporaries who came to recognize its omissions and distortions. ref: Schwartz and Ehrenberg, pl. 90.
110. POPPLE, HENRY / COVENS & MORTIER
A MAP of the BRITISH EMPIRE in AMERICA with
the FRENCH, SPANISH and the DUTCH SETTLEMENTS adjacent thereto by Henry Popple at Amsterdam
Printed for I. COVENS and C. MORTIER [Above neatline] CARTE PARTICULIÉRE DE L’AMÉRIQUE
SEPTENTRIONALE, Amsterdam, [1737].
Index sheet plus six map sheets. Engraving.
Original outline color. Excellent condition. $12,500.
Item #110 - POPPLE, 1737 - Sheet One
des KILISTINONS, la SOURCE de la GRANDE
RIVIÈRE de MISSISSIPI, le PAYS des ILLINOIS &c.,
[Amsterdam, 1737].This is the sheet containing the
Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi. It is the northwest corner of the map.
Sheet Four: 23” x 20 1/2”.Right margin slightly
frayed NOUVELLE CARTE PARTICULIÈRE DE
L’AMÉRIQUE où sont exactement marquées la
Nouvelle BRETAGNE, le CANADA ou Nouvelle
FRANCE..., [Amsterdam, 1737].
This is the northeast portion of the Popple map
including Canada, the St. Lawrence and New
Item #110 - POPPLE, 1737 - Sheet Two
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Item #110 - POPPLE, 1737 - Sheets Three, Four, Five, and Six
England and middle colonies.
Sheet Five: 23 1/4” x 20 5/8”.NOUVELLE CARTE PARTICULIÈRE DE L’AMÉRIQUE..., [Amsterdam, 1737]. Covens
and Mortier sheet from the southeast quadrant which
includes part of South America and the West Indies.
Sheet Six: 23” x 20 1/2”.
NOUVELLE CARTE
PARTICULIÉRE de L’AMÉRIQUE où sont exactement marquées les PROVINCES SUIVANTES comme la CAROLINE
MERIDIONALE, la ], FLORIDE..., [Amsterdam, 1737].
Covens and Mortier sheet encompassing part of the West
Indies, Central America and Florida.
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112. ALBRIZZI
CARTA GEOGRAFICA DEL CANADA NELL’AMERICA SETTENTRIONALE, Venice, 1742.
13” x 16 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$1,600.
Map of northeastern North America with Great
Lakes after the style of De l’Isle. This uncolored
map appeared in the Albrizzi book, Stato presente
de tutti paese.
Item #111 - BELLIN, Carte des Lacs du Canada..., 1742
113. BELLIN, JACQUES
CARTE DES LACS DU CANADA Dressée sur les
Manuscrits du Depost des Cartes, Plans et Journaux
de la Marine et sur le Journal du RP. de Charlevoix.
Par N. BELLIN Ingenieur et Hydrographe de la
Marine 1744, [Paris], 1744.
11 1/4” x 17 3/8”. Engraved. Uncolored.
Excellent condition. $800.
111. BELLIN, JACQUES
CARTE DES LACS DU CANADA Dressée sur les
Manuscrits du Depôst des Cartes, Plans et Journaux de
la Marine et sur le Journal du RP. de Charlevoix. Par N.
BELLIN Ingenieur et Hydrographe de la Marine 1742,
[Paris], 1742.
11 1/8” x 17 3/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$8,500.
Carte des Lacs du Canada contained some of the
first new material to appear since De l’Isle’s maps
of 1718. It was compiled from the Chaussegros de
Lery manuscripts and was notable for the creation
of fictitious islands of “Philippeaux” and
“Pontchartrain” in Lake Superior, as well as continuing the fiction of a mountain range in
Michigan.
Since the 1744 version was published in
Charlevoix’s book, it is a matter of research interest
to know how this 1742 prototype came to exist separately. Kershaw believes the 1742 to be a proof
copy. ref: Heidenreich and Dahl; Kershaw, map #946.
Item #112 - ALBRIZZI, Carta Geografica..., 1742
This is the version of Carte des Lacs du Canada
included in Charlevoix, Histoirie et description
generale...Nouvelle France in 1744.
The lifespan of extra islands in Lake Superior and
the mountain range in Michigan proved long and
influential. The John Mitchell map of 1755 includes
both features (see map #133).
Sometimes “22” is engraved on the outside lefthand neat-line but frequently it has been trimmed.
ref: Karpinski, p. 137; Kershaw, map #947.
An identical example is also available with original
outline color, some light staining around edges.
Item #113 - BELLIN, Carte des Lacs du Canada..., 1744
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114. BELLIN, JACQUES
PARTIE ORIENTALE DE LA NOUVELLE
FRANCE OU DU CANADA Par Mr Bellin
Ingenieur du Roy et de la Marine 1745, Paris,
1745.
18 1/2” x 23 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $2,800.
Bellin’s map of eastern Canada, showing
the mouth of the St. Lawrence, the length of
the river, the Maritime provinces and French
claims. The map was intended as a companion to the Great Lakes map of the same year
(see below).
115. BELLIN, JACQUES
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE DE LA NOUVELLE
FRANCE OU CANADA Par Mr Bellin
Ingenieur de la Marine 1745, Paris, 1745.
18 5/8” x 23 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $4,000.
Item #114 - BELLIN, Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France..., 1745
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin made this map to
demonstrate French command of the Great
Lakes region and to indicate knowledge of French exploration.
The presentation of the map is strong and attractive.
However, his signature error of creating extra islands in
Lake Superior remains, as does the mountain ridge
appearing in Michigan. The lower lakes, Erie and Ontario
are distended and the distance to the Atlantic foreshortened.
For the Great Lakes collector, this identical map appears
again under the imprint of the Homann Heirs in 1755,
while Bellin reissued his own version with the lower lakes
reduced in size and the longitude corrected so that the Pennsylvania and New
York areas are not condensed on the edge
of the Atlantic (see map #132). ref: Verner
and Stuart-Stubbs, map #12.
monopoly of the Hudson’s Bay Company and its failure to
search for a passage. Expeditions sent out in 1737 and
1741 failed to provide evidence of a passage and Dobbs
attacked the conclusions and became convinced of further
treachery.
As part of a rebuttal he published, An Account of the
countries adjoining to Hudson’s Bay. As a method to
establish that a passage did indeed exist he issued this
map with information from Joseph LaFrance to substantiate it.
La France was a 36-year old Indian trapper who fled the
116. LA FRANCE, JOSEPH
A New MAP of Part of NORTH AMERICA
From the Latitude of 40 to 68 Degrees.
Including the late discoveries made on Board
the Furnace Bomb Ketch in 1742. And the
Western Rivers & Lakes falling into Nelson
River in Hudson’s Bay, as described By
JOSEPH LA FRANCE a French Canadese
Indian who Travailed thro those Countries
and Lakes for 3 Years from 1739 to 1742,
[London], 1744.
13” x 18 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $5,000.
This map is part of the controversy over
the northwest passage. Arthur Dobbs, a
wealthy Irish landowner, questioned the
Item #115 - BELLIN, Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France..., 1745
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cate of leaving blank spaces on maps where
knowledge was insufficient. This technique
enhances the quality and accuracy of the map.
The map had enormous influence on others, particularly British cartographers, such as Thomas
Jefferys and Solomon Bolton, but also on P.
Santini (see maps #145 and #146).
D’Anville was appointed first geographer to
King Louis XIV and revised the plate extensively in 1755. The map shown here is an example of
the first state. ref: Tooley, Mapping, p. 316-7;
Heidenreich and Dahl.
Item #116 - LA FRANCE, A New Map of Part of North America..., 1744
118. COLDEN, CADWALLADER
A MAP of the Country of the FIVE NATIONS,
belonging to the Province of NEW YORK; and of the
LAKES near which the Nations of FAR INDIANS
live, with part of CANADA, [London], 1747.
7 1/4” x 9”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$250.
French to the Hudson’s
Bay Company fort. The
map was not convincing to those familiar
with the region but did
result in a parliamentary inquiry into the
affairs of the Company
in 1749. The Company
was exonerated. Dobbs
later served as Royal
Governor of North
Carolina. ref: Verner and
Stuart-Stubbs, map #21.
117. D’ANVILLE, J. B.
AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE PUBLIÉE
SOUS LES AUSPICES
DE MONSEIGNEUR LE
DUC D’ORLEANS PREMIER PRINCE DU
SANG PAR LE Sr
D’ANVILLE MDCCXLVI
Avec Privilege A PARIS,
chez l’Auteur, aux Galeries
du Louvre, Paris, 1746.
32 3/4” x 34” assembled. Engraving, later
outline color. Two
sheets. $450.
Jean
Baptiste
Bourguinon d’Anville
published a large map
which competes with
Bellin’s
output
as
among the most influential map of the New
France period.
He was an early advo52
Item #117 - D’ANVILLE, Amerique Septentriole..., 1746
Item #118 - COLDEN, A Map of The County..., 1747
Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776) was credited with
the first map published in New York City. It was, in
fact, like this map, crudely drawn and showing an
area east from Lake Superior and Michigan through
New York and north to Quebec City.
The importance of the map, originally published in
1724, was to indicate the positions of various branches of
the Iroquois nation. A second state of the map was issued
in 1735 with more than 50 new place names.
However, the copy represented here from the London
edition of 1747 uses the 1724 version. It appeared in
History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada. ref:
Schwartz and Ehrenberg, pl. 88; Wheat and Brun, map #317.
119. HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST
REGNI MEXICANI seu NOVÆ HISPANIÆ LUDOVICIANÆ, N. ANGLIÆ, CAROLINÆ, VIRGINIÆ, et PEN-
Item #120 - VAN KEULEN, Nouvelle Carte..., 1751
SYLVANIÆ necnon INSVLARVM ARCHIPELAGI MEXICANI IN AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALI accurata Tabula
exhibita À IOH. BAPTISTA HOMANNO: Noribergæ,
Nuremberg, [1750].
18 1/2” x 22 1/4”. Engraving, original color. Map was cut
into twelve sheets after production and later reassembled.
Otherwise excellent condition. $600.
Colorful and pictorial in concept, the map by Johann
Baptist Homann (d. 1724) and heirs, shows boundaries,
towns, Indian territory and the route of Spanish galleons
on their return voyage.
The map appeared in Atlas Geographicvs
Maior and in various atlas factice of the timeframe. ref: Sellers and Van Ee, map #82.
120. VAN KEULEN, GERARD
Nouvelle Carte de la Riviere de CANADA ou St
LAURENS de l’Isle de ANTICOSTE Jusqua
QUEBEC, Dans la Partie d’AMERIQUE la Plus
Septentrionale, Amsterdam, 1751.
20 1/2” x 23 3/8”. Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $1,400.
Maps of American waters by van Keulen are
particularly scarce. Given the popularity of
the firm’s charts, it is presumed that most
were used and discarded. This chart was originally published in Die Nieuwe Groote
Lichtende Zee-Fakkel, Pt. IV in 1723. The
main chart depicts the St. Lawrence from
Quebec City to Anticosti Island.
An inset continues the course of the river
from Quebec to Lake Ontario while navigational details are depicted on other insets.
Item #119 - HOMANN, Regni Mexicani..., 1750
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122. GENTLEMEN’S MAGAZINE
A PLAN OF THE STRAITS OF ST MARY, and
MICHILIMAKINAC, to Shew the Situation &
Importance of the two Westernmost Settlements of Canada
for the Fur Trade, [London], 1751.
9 3/8” x 12 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent. $125.
A map showing the strategic importance to the control of the upper lakes and the fur trade.
The map diagrams the junction of Lakes Superior,
Huron, and Michigan with the Straits of Mackinac
and the St. Mary’s River. After the British secured
control following the French and Indian war, they
garrisoned the fort at Mackinac on the mainland.
Item #121 - VAN KEULEN, Pas kaart Von West Indien..., 1751
123. BUACHE, PHILIPPE
CARTE GÉNÉRALE DES DECOUVERTES de l’Amiral
de Fonte, et autres Navigateurs Espagnols, Anglois et
Russes pour la recherche du Passage à la Mer du Sud. Par
M. De l’Isle de l’Academie royal des Sciences &c. Publiée
a Paris en Septembre 1752, Paris, 1752.
11 1/4” x 14 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent. $300.
121. VAN KEULEN, JOHANNES
Pas kaart Von WEST INDIEN Behelsende soo Deszelffs
Vaste Kusten als d’ Onder behoorende Eylanden aan de
Noord Oçeaan door C I Vooght Geometra T’AMSTERDAM By JOHANNES VAN KEULEN Boek en Zee kaart
Verkoper en Graadboogh maaker aande Niewe-brugh inde
Gekroonde Lootsman Met Privilegie Voor 15 Iaaren,
Amsterdam, [1751].
20” x 23”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $2,400.
This small-scale chart of the North Atlantic is
emblematic of the charts included in the Zee-Fakkel
and shows the quality of work of the last of the great
Dutch chartmakers.
The van Keulen family existed as a firm for about
200 years. When this chart was issued, Johannes van
Keulen II was in control and it was continued under
his son and other relatives by marriage until 1823.
Item #123 - BUACHE, Carte Generale..., 1752
A map from Diderot’s Encyclopedie which makes the
case for a northwest passage. Included as part of the evidence is the route of Admiral De Fonte—a completely fictitious voyage.
124. MOUNT & PAGE / MOUNT, WILLIAM / MOUNT,
J. / PAGE, THOMAS
A New and Correct Chart of the North Part of America from
NEWFOUNDLAND to HUDSONS BAY Sold by W. & I.
Mount & T. Page on Tower Hill LONDON, London, 1753.
17 1/8” x 21 7/8”. Engraving. Small split at centerfold.
Otherwise excellent condition. $600.
Item #122 - GENTLEMEN’S MAG., A Plan of the Straits..., 1751
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John Thornton, in partnership with John Seller and
William Fisher published The English Pilot, The Fourth
Book—the first maritime atlas dedicated exclusively to
North America. The year was 1689. The predecessor to
126. WILLIAMSON
A Map of the BRITISH PLANTATIONS on the
Continent of AMERICA, [London], 1755.
13 1/4” x 11 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $350.
This map was designed to focus attention on
the colonies of Britain and was reissued by
Williamson for the beginning of the French
and Indian war. It was originally included in
Thomas Salmon, Modern History, and published in London in 1739.
Item #124 - MOUNT & PAGE, A New and Correct..., 1753
this chart was called, A Chart of ye North part of America
which was used until 1698 when a crack in the plate
forced discontinuance.
The replacement chart was in use after the death of
Thornton in 1708 and reinscribed with the Mount and
Page name when the plates were purchased in 1715. As
with all charts of this type, it resembled the Dutch tradition of simple coastlines without internal features. Here,
the mouth of the St. Lawrence and gateway down the
river are depicted.
The plate was once more recut before this copy appeared
in 1751. The older lines had become nearly illegible and
the requirement to freshen the surface after nearly 40
years of use resulted in a final state. ref: Verner and StuartStubbs, map #31.
127. OTTENS, R. & J.
CARTE DES POSSESSIONS ANGLOISES &
FRANÇOISES
DU
CONTINENT
DE
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. KAART
VAN DE ENGELSCHE EN FRANSCHE BEZITTINGEN IN HET VASTE LAND VAN NOORD
AMERICA, 1755. à Amsterdam Chez R. et J.
OTTENS, Geográphes, Amsterdam, 1755.
16 3/8” x 22 3/8”. Engraving. Later hand color. Excellent
condition. $3,000.
The Ottens family was known for their ability to copy
maps of other cartographers and bring them to production rapidly.
This map was originally published by Jean Palairet and
included in his Concise Description of 1755 (see book section #246).
Identical to the Palairet first state, this map shows towns,
roads, tribal lands, as well as lands claimed by British and
French at the opening of the French and Indian war.The
map references are in both French and Dutch.
ref: Seller and Van Ee, map #58.
125. BELLIN, JACQUES
CARTE DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE depuis le 28 Degré de
Latitude jusqu’au 72. Par M. Bellin
Ingenieur de la Marine et du Dêpost des
Plans, Censeur Royal, de l’Académie de
Marine, et de la Société Royale de
Londres. M.DCC.LV. Avec une
Description Géographique de cette
Partie de l’Amérique, Paris, 1755.
22” x 34”. Engraving. Original outline color. $1,600.
A large map showng the French
claims in North America.
“F.
Duquene” is identified in the map
area. The Great Lakes are represented in the typical Bellin format. This
map appeared in the Hydrographie
Francoise, [1756-1765]. ref: Map
Collectors Circle, #96 (1974), Map
#764; National Maritime Museum
Catalogue, v.3, p. 239.
Item #125 - BELLIN, Carte de L’Amerique Septentrionale.., 1755
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Item #128 - LONDON MAG., Map of the Five Great Lakes, 1755
Item #126 - WILLIAMSON, A Map of the British..., 1755
128. LONDON MAGAZINE
A MAP of the Five Great Lakes with part of Pensilvania, New
York, Canada and Hudsons Bay Territories &c., London, 1755.
8 1/2” x 10 3/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $160.
The London Magazine and the Gentleman’s Magazine
were publications popular with the British reading public
of the time and served to point out current issues. Of
obvious interest was territorial control of the Great Lakes,
displayed here in the Bellin format.
This is the view seen by literate English speakers at the
beginning of the colonial conflict with France.
129. MITCHELL, JOHN
A MAP of the British and French Dominions in North America,
WITH THE Roads, Distances, Limits, and Extent of the SETTLEMENTS, Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honourable The
Earl of Halifax, And the other Right Honourable The Lords
Commissioners for Trade & Plantations, By their Lordships
Most Obliged, and very humble servant Jno Mitchell,
[London], 1755.
Each sheet: 53” x 38 3/4” folds to 9 1/4” x 5 3/4”; assembled: 53” x 77 1/2”. Engraving. Cut and mounted on
linen. Two sheets, folded, with original publisher’s case.
Excellent condition. $67,000.
“The most important map in American history”, was
how Col. Lawrence Martin of the Library of Congress
described the great map of America by John Mitchell.
Mitchell, a physician, was determined to
expand British interests into the interior and
prevent French claims in the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys from limiting settlement
and trade.
Sources to the map included what Mitchell
could find in the archives of the British office
of Trade and Plantations and the Admiralty.
However, for the upper Mississippi and Great
Lakes, Mitchell was dependent on French
maps, particularly the 1744 map of Jacques
Bellin.
Mitchell’s map was published in twenty-one
states between 1755 and 1791 in English,
French, and Italian. It was clearly the dominant map of the period and used to negotiate
boundary issues in the Paris treaty negotiations in 1782 and 1783.
This is an excellent copy of the second state
of the map with the two towns in
Massachusetts named Leicester and “Millar”
and “Katharine” correctly spelled outside the
neat line of the lower margin. ref: Goss, map
Item #127 - OTTENS, Carte des Possessions Angloises..., 1755
#59; Sellers and Van Ee, map #38; Library of
Congress, A La Carte.
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Item #129 - MITCHELL, A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America, 1755
Repub. de VENISE Corrigée et augmentée, Par le Sr Tillemon; et Dediée
A Monsieur l’Abbé BAUDRAND. A
PARIS Chez I. B. Nolin Sur le Quay
de l’Horloge du Palais Vers le PontNeuf a l’Enseigne de la Place
desVictoires Avec Privilege du Roy
1688, Paris, [1755].
17 5/8” x 23 1/2”. Engraving.
Original outline color. Excellent
condition. $9,500.
130. MITCHELL, JOHN
[Great Lakes sheet from the 8-sheet John
Mitchell], London, 1755.
26 1/8” x 19”. Engraving. Excellent
condition. Sheet 2 of 8. $800.
For the Great Lakes collector who
needs at least one sheet from the great
map of John Mitchell, here is the
opportunity. This map covers four of
the five lakes with the outsized Lake
Erie from the Bellin prototype.
We could not find an authoritative reference to this 1755 state of
the famous Coronelli map of 1688.
It was reissued with updated river
systems of the Ohio and Potomac
and the addition of “Ft.
Duquesne” to help determine the
year of issue.
For both French and British, 1755
was a year which held much interest for overseas expansion and
131.
CORONELLI / NOLIN /
TILLEMON
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE du CANADA ou de la NOUVELLE FRANCE ou
sont les Nations des ILINOIS, de
TRACY, les IROQUOIS, et plusieurs
autres Peuples; Avec la LOUISIANE
Nouvellement decouverte etc. Dressée
sur les Memoires les plus Nouveaux. Par
le P. Coronelli Cosmographe de la Serme
Item #130 - MITCHELL, sheet 2 of 8, 1755
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Robert de Vaugondy, Didier (1723-1786)
and his father, Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles
(1686-1766).
The map depicts Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, and the entire course of the St.
Lawrence River. An inset shows the 1744
Bellin version of the Great Lakes.
The first state of the map is identifiable
by the fact that “I. Charlton” does not
appear in James Bay, as it does on later
states, and that “Ft. de la Presque Isle” is
placed perpendicular to the shore of Lake
Erie. ref: Kershaw, map #356; Pedley, Bel et
Utile, map #459, state 1.
Item #131 - CORONELLI/NOLIN, Partie Occidentale du Canada, 1755
given the variety of maps published and sold, it is no surprise that older maps found a market.
Much research remains to be done on the storage and use
of the plate but it is an extraordinary concept for a reissue
after 67 years with no states occurring in between.
132. BELLIN, JACQUES
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE OU
CANADA Par Mr Bellin Ingenieur de la Marine [Paris], 1755.
18 5/8” x 24”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$2,400.
134. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, GILLES
PARTIE DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENT? qui
comprend LA NOUVELLE FRANCE OU LE
CANADA, Par le Sr Robert de Vaugondy
Geog? Ordinaire du Roy. Avec Privilege.
1755. [Paris, 1778].
18 7/8” x 23 3/4”. Engraving, original
outline color. Excellent condition. $700.
Here is an example of the fourth state of the map which
was issued in 1778 according to Pedley.
It incorporates all the changes made to the third state of
1763, which included the dotted line boundaries of the
Treaty of Paris, an additional “s” to “Jamess Bay” [sic],
and the removal of the northern boundary to the state of
New York. The fourth state adds “Groux” to the cartouche and deletes “C. haussard fecit” and “C. haussard
sculp”. ref: Kershaw, map #356; Pedley, map #459, state 4.
The second state of the Bellin map originally
published in 1745 (see map #118) but now reissued with Lakes Erie and Ontario repositioned
and reconfigured. Also, the earlier foreshortening
of Pennsylvania and New York taken from the
Cadwalader Colden map has been corrected.
Still, the size of the lower peninsula of Michigan is
comparatively outsized. The Ohio River valley
has been redrawn to include tributaries. Lake
Superior remains with the fictitious islands intact.
ref: Heidenreich and Dahl.
133. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, GILLES
PARTIE DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENT? qui comprend LA NOUVELLE FRANCE OU LE CANADA,
Par le Sr Robert de Vaugondy Geog? Ordinaire du
Roy. Avec Privilege. 1755. [Paris], 1755.
18 7/8” x 23 3/4”. Engraving, original outline
color. Excellent condition. $1,200.
This is the first state of the map originally issued
in 1755. It appeared in the Atlas Universel of
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Item #132 - BELLIN, Partie Occidentale ...,, 1755
mountain range in Michigan is emphasized.
“Ft. Ponchartrain” is double named “Ft.
Detroit”.
Johann Christoph Rhode (1713-1786) was an
active publisher in Berlin in the 1740s and 50s.
What interested him in America is not known
but this map is an important legacy and the
sheet depicting the Great Lakes in German is
unique. ref: Sellers and Van Ee, map #59; L.
Brown, Early Maps of the Ohio Valley, #23.
136. BELLIN, JACQUES
CARTE DES LACS DU CANADA Pour servir a
l’Histoire Generale des Voyages Par M.B. Ing. de la
Mar 1757, Paris, 1757.
7 3/4” x 11 3/8”. Engraving, original color.
Excellent condition. $600.
Item #133 - VAUGONDY, Partie De L’Amerique ...,, 1755
The map of all five Great Lakes in the traditional Bellin configuration and published in
the Petit Atlas Maritime.
135. RHODE, JOHANN CHRISTOPH
[Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali. II.
Foliis comprehensum jussu Acad. Reg. Scient. et
Eleg. Litt. exhibet I. C. Rhode Ac: Geogr. Berger,
sculpsit berol. 1755.] [Great Lakes sheet only
without title], [Berlin], 1755.
11 1/8” x 13 3/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. [price on request]
Perhaps the most significant map in German
to document North America at the time of the
French and Indian war. Towns, cities, forts,
and topographic features are clearly drawn.
Indian villages, trails, and tribal territories are
indicated.
Most interesting is the depiction of the dense
forests and mountain ranges. According to
Lloyd Brown, “The use of fine shading and
hachures to indicate relief is unusual for this
period and very effective.” The Bellin fictitious islands appear in Lake Superior and the
Item #134 - VAUGONDY, Partie De L’Amerique ...,, 1755/1778
Item #135 - RHODE, Theatrum belli ...,, 1755
Item #136 - BELLIN, Carte Des Lacs du Canada...,, 1757
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This is the first separately printed
map of Detroit, showing the village,
fort, anchorages, islands and navigational hazards, with an inset of the
fort with five lettered references. The
tilled farmland represented is conjectural.
The map was included in Bellin’s
Petit Atlas Maritime. ref: Sellers and
Van Ee, map #777; Karpinski, p. 154-5;
Tooley, Mapping, pl. 114.
137. ANONYMOUS
[Powderhorn map of New York forts],
[New York], 1760.
12” x 2 7/8” x 2 7/8”. Ink on animal
horn. Excellent condition. $5,500.
The map on this powder horn shows
the New York forts and Lake Ontario
and can be dated c.1760. It is a good
representative example of a craft at the
peak of its influence.
Frontier garrison duty provided soldiers with ample time to carve and
whittle. At the time of the French and
Indian war, one popular pastime was
the creation of local maps on powder
horns. This genre flourished at a time
when flintlock muskets required
powder and ball.
138. [TIRION, ISAAK]
KAART van het westelyk gedeelte van
KANADA, bevattende de vyf groote
Meiren, met de omleggende Landen,
[Amsterdam, 1760].
140. BELLIN, JACQUES
CARTE DES CINQ GRANDS LACS
DU CANADA, [Paris, 1764].
8 7/8” x 13 1/4”.
Engraving.
Excellent condition. $500.
Item #137 - ANON, Powderhorn Map, 1760
Item #138 - TIRION, Kaart van het westelyk... 1760
Another map to appear in Bellin’s
Petit Atlas Maritime, this depicts all
five lakes in the traditional Bellin format.
The map shows Indian land, forts,
missions, rivers and lakes, plus some
trails and portages. ref: Sellers and
Van Ee, map #222; Buisseret, map #23.
Item #139 - BELLIN, La Riviere du Detroit..., 1764
8 1/4” x 12 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $400.
Provisionally attributed to Isaak Tirion (d.1769), this
small map is a Dutch issue of an Emanuel Bowen map.
139. BELLIN, JACQUES
LA RIVIERE DU DÉTROIT Depuis le Lac Saint Claire
jusqu’au Lac Erié, [Paris, 1764].
8 1/8” x 12 3/8”. Engraving. Original color. Excellent
condition. $950.
Item #140 - BELLIN, Carte des Cinq Grand Lacs..., 1764
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the publication of Müller’s
Voyages et Decouvertes Faits par
les Russes, which appeared in
1766. Later states of the original
map were published in 1773 and
possibly 1784. Numerous derivitive plates by Carington Bowles,
Robert Sayer and others have been
noted. ref: Verner and StuartStubbs, map #38.
Item #141 - MULLER, Nouvelle Carte des Decouvertes..., 1766
141. MÜLLER, GERARD FRIEDERICH / REY, MARC
MICHAEL
NOUVELLE CARTE DES DECOUVERTES FAITES PAR
DES VAISSEAUX RUSSIENS AUX CÔTES INCONNUES
DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE AVEC LES PAIS
ADIACENTS. Dressée sur des memoires authentiques de ceux
qui ont assisté a ces decouvertes, et sur d’autres connoissances
dont on rend raison dans un memoire separé. A St Petersbourg
à l’Academie Impériale des Sciences 1758, Amsterdam, 1766.
17 3/8” x 24 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition.
$1,500.
Marc Michael Rey was the Amsterdam publisher of
books and maps of Gerard Friedrich Müller (d. 1783).
Müller had spent his career at the Russian Academy of
Sciences
and
after
exploring Siberia for ten
years, became a historian and geographer.
Müller’s map of 1754
reported on the Bering
expeditions, which settled the issue of the
Strait of Anian. His
actual objective was to
deconstruct J. N. De
l’Isle’s support of the
Admiral
de
Fonte
claims.
In the second state of
the plate, the date 1754
was altered to 1758 with
minor additions and
changes to the place
names. It is this plate
which Rey copied for
142. HUTCHINS, THOMAS
CARTE du COURS de L’OHIO & du
MUSKINGUM Représentant la
Position des VILLES INDIENNES
par rapport à l’Armée du Colonel
Bouquet, Par Thomas Hutchins
Ingénieur Assistant, [Amsterdam],
1767.
9 5/8” x 12”. Engraving. Excellent
condition. $1,600.
Thomas Hutchins had frontier duty as a young officer
with the British 60th Regiment—a regiment raised from
the colonial Americans.
After the French and Indian war, he was assigned duties
to scout the Ohio River and this map is the product of his
journey.
The map was published in William Smith, Relation
Historique d l’Expedition (Amsterdam, 1769).
Hutchins went on to fight with the Americans in the
Revolution and was named the first Geographer of the
United States.
143. KALM, PETER
Nieuwe en Nauwkeurige KAART van een gedeelte van
NOORD AMERIKA, behelzende NIEUW ENGELAND,
NEW YORK, PENSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, een Stuk van
Virginia, KANADA en
HALIFAX, ter opheldering
der Reizen van den Heer P.
KALM, Utrecht, 1772.
22” x 29 7/8”. Engraving.
Excellent
condition.
$1,900.
Item #142 - HUTCHINS, Carte du Cours de L’Ohio..., 1767
Peter Kalm’s travels
resulted in a book and
map. The book was titled
Reis door Noord Amerika
(Utrecht, 1772). The map
covers Canada and the
northeast with the St.
Lawrence, Lakes Erie,
Ontario and part of Huron.
There is also a London
edition of the book and
map.
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in time to be of value in the
American Revolution. It was
designed for navigation and
pilotage.
The sources are French. The
north bank was directly borrowed
from the Jean Deshayes survey
(see map #65) and the south shore
was from d’Anville’s map of 1755.
A study for accuracy indicates that
ten positional lattitudes were off
by a factor of six nautical miles.
For pilotage, this would not have
mattered but attempts to use it for
navigation would have been difficult.
This is the fifth state of the map.
ref: Kershaw, map #669; Cumming
and Marshall, North America at the
Time of the Revolution (Lympne
Castle, 1975).
Item #143 - KALM, Nieuwe en Nauwkeurige Kaart..., 1772
144. JEFFERYS, THOMAS
An Exact Chart of the RIVER ST LAURENCE, from Fort
Frontenac to the Island of Anticosti shewing the Soundings,
Rocks, Shoals &c with Views of the Lands and all necessary
Instructions for navigating that River to QUEBEC. To the Rt
Honble JNO MONTAGU EL of SANDWICH, First Lord
Commissioner, & to the other Honble Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, This
Chart is most Humbly Inscribed By their Lordships most
Obedient most devoted Humble Servt,
Thos
Jefferys.
London, Printed for
Robt Sayer, Map &
Printseller, No 53,
Fleet Street, as the
Act directs, 25 May,
1775, London, 1775
23 3/8” x 37 1/8”.
Engraving, original
outline color. Small
split
in
fold.
Otherwise excellent
condition. $700.
145. D’ANVILLE, J.B./SANTINI
PARTIE
OCCIDENTALE
DU
CANADA ET SEPTENTRIONALE
DE LA LOUISIANE AVEC UNE PARTIE DE LA PENSILVANIE PAR LE Sr D’ANVILLE de l’Academie Rle des
Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et de celle des Sciences de
Petersbourg, Secretaire de S.A.S.MGR LE DUC D ORLEANS
Sous le Privilege de l’Academie. A VENISE Par P. Santini
1775, Venice, 1775.
19” x 23 3/8”. Engraving, original outline color. Excellent
condition. $650.
This is the first
British survey of
the St. Lawrence
River. The chart
was assembled by
Thomas Jefferys in
1757 and it was
reissued here by
Sayer and Bennett
Item #144 - JEFFERYS, An Exact Chart of the River St. Laurence..., 1775
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version, as it appeared on the Mitchell map. It
also includes an inset map of Florida and the
Bahamas. ref: Sellers and Van Ee, map #163;
Kershaw, map #980.
Item #145 - D’ANVILLE, Partie Occidentale du Canada..., 1775
Crediting d’Anville in the title, this map and the map following are based on the map Amerique Septentrionale of
1746 but with revisions particularly to the Ohio valley in
1755. This is the western sheet which includes the Great
Lakes and Louisiana. It was originally published in
Santini’s Atlas Universel.
146. D’ANVILLE, J.B. / SANTINI
PARTIE ORIENTALE DU CANADA, avec la NOUVELLE
ANGLETERRE, l’ACADIE, et la TERRE-NEUVE, PAR LE S.
D’ANVILLE. A VENISE Par P. Santini 1776, Venice, 1776.
19” x 22 3/4”. Engraving, original outline color.
Excellent condition. $650.
148. LE ROUGE, GEORGES / MITCHELL,
JOHN
AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE avec les Routes,
Distances en miles, Villages et ETABLISSEMENTS
François et Anglois Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit
de l’Anglois A PARIS Par le Rouge Ingr Geographe
du Roy rue des Grands Augustins 1756. Corrigée
en 1776 par M. Hawkins Brigadier des armées du
Roi. [Second title:] North America So Doctor
Michel zu London im 1755:-ten jahr ausgegeben
jetzt aber in das franzosische ubersetzet, zu Paris.
durch H. le Rouge jn der grosen augustiner Strasse
1756. Verbessert 1776, [Paris], 1776.
Each sheet 25 3/8” x 18 5/8”; assembled: 51
1/4” x 74 1/2”. Engraving, original outline
color. Eight sheets. Sheets 1 & 3: Tears in margin with no loss of printed surface. Sheet 4:
Spotted discoloration of surface concentrated at
margins. Sheet 7: Spotted discoloration of surface. Otherwise excellent condition. $7,500.
This is the French edition of the map described by Sellers
and Van Ee as “one of the most important documents in
American history”. It was the most ambitious project of
George Louis LeRouge in his publication on eight sheets
of the John Mitchell map in 1756.
The copy represented here is the third edition of 1776 and
the third impression with “Fot George” in place of “Lac
George”. It was published at the same scale as the English
edition and portrays the same 1745 Bellin configuration of
the Great Lakes.
This is the eastern sheet showing
Newfoundland, the St. Lawrence River course,
Nova Scotia, and the coastline down to Staten
Island. The map borrows much of its cartography and cartouche, including a ferocious beaver,
from Robert De Vaugondy’s map Partie de
l’Amerique Septent? which first appeared in 1755.
147. ZATTA, ANTONIO / [MITCHELL, JOHN]
IL PAESE DE’ SELVAGGI OUTAUACESI E
KILISTINESI INTORNO AL LAGO SUPERIORE,
[Venice], 1778.
12 7/8” x 16 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $300.
Antonio Zatta published an Italian version of the
John Mitchell map, entitled, Le Colonie unite dell’
America settentrle in 1778. The map appeared in
twelve sheets.
This sheet depicts Lake Superior in the Bellin
Item #145 - D’ANVILLE, Partie Orientale du Canada..., 1776
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Details down to portages, waterfalls, and historically descriptive notes are transcribed from the
English copy of 1755. ref: Sellers and Van Ee, map
#50; A La Carte, p. 112.
149. LODGE, JOHN / RUSSELL, WILLIAM
AN EXACT MAP of the FIVE GREAT LAKES, with
Part of PENSILVANIA, NEW YORK, CANADA and
HUDSONS BAY TERRITORIES, From the best
Surveys, [London], 1778.
8 1/8” x 10”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $250.
Item #147 - ZATTA, Il Paese de’ Selvaggi..., 1778
This map closely follows the Bellin style of the
Great Lakes. John Lodge, the London engraver, was
responsible for many maps in books and magazines
in the late eighteenth century.
An Exact Map of the Five Great Lakes appeared in
William Russell, The History of America (London,
1778).
Item #148 - LE ROUGE/MITCHELL, Amerique Septentrionale..., 1776
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Item #149 - LODGE, An Exact Map of the Five Great Lakes..., 1778
This last, best survey of any American colony before
or during the Revolutionary War was published by
Claude Joseph Sauthier. Sauthier was employed initially by Gov. William Tryon in North Carolina beginning in 1769. When the governor was transferred to
New York, Sauthier followed him there and ran the
boundary line between Quebec and New York.
The comparatively large scale (one inch to five miles)
permits an extraordinary amount of information to be
recorded, including farms and farmhouses, taverns,
bridges, ferries, and names of landholders.
An unresolved issue to appear involves the disputed
Vermont townships claimed both by New York and
New Hampshire. Also shown and named are the
5,000 acres awarded to Sauthier in Norbury, Vermont.
Sauthier was actively drawing maps during the
American Revolution under Earl Percy but this survey
of New York was his masterpiece. ref: Sellers and Van
Ee, map #1070.
150. BRION DE LA TOUR, LOUIS
CARTE DU THÉATRE DE LA GUERRE ENTRE LES
ANGLAIS ET LES AMÉRICAINS: Dressée d’après les
Cartes Anglaises les plus modernes, par M. Brion de la
Tour, Ingénieur-Géographe du Roi. 1778. A PARIS Chez
Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St Jacques, à la Ville de Coutance,
Paris, 1778.
29 1/2” x 20 1/4”. Engraving, original outline color.
Excellent condition. $3,600.
All states of this map are uncommon but it is known
that it was first published in 1777, and again in 1778,
1779, and 1782. The map should have a special
appeal to anyone with an interest in the American
Revolution.
Louis Brion de la Tour (see also map #155) was a
military engineer and (titled but unsalaried)
Geographer to the King.
This map, extending from Quebec to Cape May,
N.J. and from Maine’s Kennebec River to Lake
Ontario was compiled from mostly British sources.
This is the 1778 issue with British troops shown at
Germantown and “Frank-Fort”, Pennsylvania, as
well as Saratoga, New York. ref: Sellers and Van Ee,
map #728.
151. SAUTHIER, CLAUDE JOSEPH
A Chorographical MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF NEWYORK IN NORTH AMERICA, Divided into Counties,
Manors, Patents and Townships; Exhibiting likewise all
the private GRANTS of LAND made and located in that
Province; Compiled from ACTUAL SURVEYS deposited
in the PATENT OFFICE at NEW YORK, By Order of
His Excellency Major General WILLIAM TRYON, By
CLAUDE JOSEPH SAUTHIER Esqr, London, 1779.
Each sheet: 24 3/4” x 55 1/2”; assembled: 74 1/4” x
55 1/2”. Engraving. Three sheets. Original outline
color. Some light off-setting. Split at folds. Very
good condition. $11,500.
Item #150 - BRION DE LA TOUR, Carte du Theatre de la Guerre
Entre les Anglais et les Americains..., 1778
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Item #151 - SAUTHIER, A Chorographical Map..., 1779
152. ANON. / MITCHELL, JOHN
A NEW MAP OF NORTH AMERICA, [Dublin, 1779].
16 3/4” x 21 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $1,600.
Map of eastern North America on the basis of John
Mitchell. This good-sized map has not been attributed to
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a specific engraver but appeared in History of the War in
America in 1779, and the next year in An Impartial
History of the War in America. The map identifies Indian
tribes and forts built by the French. It was aimed to
acquaint the general reader with the scene of activity of
the conflict. ref: Sellers and Van Ee, map 169.
Great Plains. It delineates the five Great Lakes
with the cartography from French sources.
From Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du
Globe Terrestre (Geneva, 1780). ref: Sellers and
Van Ee, map #173; Renville Wheat map #60;
(variant without Bonne’s name and title).
155. BRION DE LA TOUR, LOUIS
CARTE DU CANADA et DES CONTRÉES LIMITROPHES, formant la suite du Théatre de la
Guerre DANS L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Par M. Brion de la Tour, IngénieurGéographe du Roy. A PARIS Chez Esnauts et
Rapilly, Rue S. Jacques, à la Ville de Coutances.
A.P.D.R. 1784, Paris, 1784.
20 1/4” x 29 3/4”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Small split at fold. Otherwise excellent
condition. $5,500.
Item #152 - ANON, A New Map of North America..., 1779
153. PALAIRET, JOHN
A GENERAL MAP OF AMERICA, J. Lodge sculp.
[London, 1780].
16 5/8” x 19 1/4”. Engraving. Original color. Excellent
condition. $800.
Attributed to John Palairet, this map with simple outlines to demarcate territorial claims was probably one
of the maps for school atlas.
154. BONNE, RIGOBERT
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE DU CANADA, contenant les cinq
Grands Lac, avec les Pays Criconvoisins, [Geneva, 1780].
8 3/4” x 12 1/2”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $700.
Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795) was active as an engineer
and cartographer.
This map, published about 1780 shows frontier forts,
missions, and tribal names in the area between James
Bay and Ft. Duquesne and from Lake Ontario to the
Item #154 - BONNE, Partie Occidentale du Canada..., 1780
Item #153 - PALAIRET, A General Map of America..., 1780
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823) remains a fascinating study waiting to be written. He served as a
military engineer and published severeal maps of
the American Revolution.
But details of his life and business are otherwise
unknown.
This map of Canada draws on French sources
including d’Anville and Jacques Nicolas Bellin for
the version of Lake Superior with the fictitious
islands. Four of the Great Lakes are shown. Other
interesting features include a curious double mountain range down the spine of Michigan’s lower
peninsula.
It is known that la Tour’s maps were included in
composite atlases but these remain scarce and this
map of Canada is virtually unknown. ref: Kershaw,
map #381.
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156. DELAMARCHE, CHARLES FRANCOIS /
BOUDET, ANTOINE / D’ANVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE
ETATS-UNIS DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Avec
LES ISLES ROYALE, DE TERRE NEUVE, DE ST JEAN,
L’ACADIE &c. 1785. Supplément a l’Atlas de M. Robert de
Vaugondi a Paris Chés Boudet Imprieur du Roi, Paris, 1785.
18 5/8” 24 3/4”. Engraving, original outline color.
Excellent condition. $900.
157. BAREND, IAN ELWE / JAILLOT, ALEXISHUBERT
AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Divisée en Ses Principales
Parties. A AMSTERDAM. Chés IAN BT ELWE. MDCCXCII,
Amsterdam, 1792.
18 3/8” x 22 5/8”. Engraving, original color. Excellent
condition. $1,900.
Borrowing the title and cartography
from Alexis Hubert Jaillot this map
was redrawn from Nicolas Sanson’s
original. The plate then either passed
to Ottens or was sold at the dissolution
of the Jaillot firm in 1781. Here it
appeared under the imprint of the
Amsterdam publisher, Jan Barend
Elwe, for his 1792 Atlas.
The geographical information presented resembles what can be found
on maps of a much earlier period.
158. MORSE, JEDIDIAH
A MAP of the BACK SETTLEMENTS,
[London], 1794.
7 1/4” x 8 3/4”. Engraving. Excellent
condition. $100.
Item #155 - BRION DE LA TOUR, Carte du Canada..., 1784
Etat Unis was one of the new maps included in the
Delamarche atlas of 1785. This is probably the second
state of the map before Antoine Boudet
died in 1787 and after Delamarche purchased the plate. Later, Boudet’s name
was removed as in the Library of
Congress copy.
Charles Francois Delamarche (17401817) and his son Felix were the successors to Didier Robert de Vaugondy ,
who had sold his business his map
business in 1778 to Jean Fortin, a globe
maker. The Delamarche family purchased the stock from Fortin in 1786,
added an imprint to most maps and
continued to print the Atlas Universel.
The cartography is based on d’Anville
with the 13 states, and names proposed
for 10 new states in the Jefferson
Ordinance of 1784. Among the names
for
new
states
appeared,
“Washington”,
“Illinoia”,
and
“Michigania”—believed to be the first
reference to Michigan on any map. ref:
Sellers and Van Ee, map #187 (variant
with Boudet name); Pedley, Bel et Utile.
This map by the American geographer, Rev. Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826),
was published in the London edition
of The American Geography in 1794.
The map portrays the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys with parts of the
lower Great Lakes.
Item #156 - DELAMARCHE, Etats-Unis de L’Amerique..., 1785
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Item #158 - MORSE,
A Map of the Back Settlements.., 1794
Item #157 - BAREND, Amerique Septentrionale.., 1792
159. VON REILLY, FRANZ JOHHANN JOSEPH /
D’ANVILLE JEAN BAPTISTE
KARTE von AMERIKA NACH D’ANVILLE UND POWNALL Neu verzeichnet herausgegeben von FRANZ JOH. JOS.
VON REILLY, Vienna, 1795.
23” x 29 3/4”. Engraving. Original color. Some discoloration in lower portion. $2,800.
A scarce Austrian map of the Western Hemisphere with
an inset of the United States.
Reilly was a Viennese art dealer and map publisher who
assembled three atlases between 1789-99.
160. ANDREWS, THOMAS C. / THOMAS
A MAP of the NORTH WESTERN Territory,
Boston, [1796].
7 3/4” x 9 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $100.
Joseph Scott’s An Atlas of the United States. The
omnipresent and fictitious Bellin islands appear in
Lake Superior and the southern end of Lake
Michigan is positioned a full degree further north
than the southern shore of Lake Erie, as in the John
Mitchell, giving fuel to the downstream controversy over
where to determine state lines. ref: Wheat and Brun, map
#674.
162. BRADLEY, ABRAHAM
Map of the United States, Exhibiting the POST-ROADS, the
situations, connections & distances of the POST-OFFICES
Stage Roads, Counties, Ports of Entry and Delivery for Foreign
Vessels, and the Principal Rivers. BY Abraham Bradley junr,
Philadelphia, 1796 /1804.
34 3/4” x 37”; folds to 10” x 5”. Engraving. Age-toned.
Cut and mounted on contemporary linen. Excellent condition. $19,000.
A map printed in Boston, with the eighteenth-century erroneous landforms intact—
the “high extensive plain” in Michigan, and
the fictitious Bellin islands in Lake Superior.
More accurate features include the Seven
Ranges of townships in Ohio and the demarcation of the Ohio Company lands.
The map was published in Jedidiah Morse,
The American Universal Geography.
ref: Wheat and Brun, map #679.
161. SCOTT
N. W. TERRITORY, [Philadelphia], 1796.
7 1/4” x 6 1/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $200.
This small map of the Old Northwest territory was printed in Philadelphia as part of
Item #159 - VON REILLY, Karte von Amerika..., 1795
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Based on the cartography of John Mitchell, this
map by Calcografia
Camerale follows the
Zatta map (see map
#147). This is the Canada
sheet from the 1797 edition
of
Atlante
Universale.
Item #160 - ANDREWS, 1796
“The map ...,” states Walter Ristow, “represented the
first clear cartographic break from European-dominated
mapmaking and introduced a new, more distinctly
American style of cartography to the United States.”
Abraham Bradley (1767-1829) was trained as a lawyer
but spent his career in the Post Office where in 1796 he
published the first state of
this map.
The map was compiled
largely based on new
information
obtained
from various postmasters
around the country.
All states of the map are
rare; four were published
in the 18th-century. The
map was revised in 1804
to replace the table showing the delivery system of
mail from Maine to South
Carolina with a map of the
continent prior to the discoveries of Lewis and
Clark.
ref: Ristow,
American Maps; Schwartz
and Ehrenberg; Wheat and
Brun,
maps
#127-30;
Karpinski, p. 193-4.
163.
CALCOGRAFIA
CAMERALE
/
MITCHELL, JOHN
GLI STATI UNITI DELL’AMERICA Delineati sulle
ultime
Osservazioni.
PRIMO FOGLIO che comprende inoltre PARTE DEL
CANADÀ. ROMA. Presso
la Calcografia Camerale.
1797. Rome, 1797.
13 5/8” x 18 7/8”.
Engraving. Original outline color. Excellent. $400.
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164. ARROWSMITH,
AARON
A MAP OF THE UNITED
STATES
of
NORTH
Item #161 - SCOTT, 1796
AMERICA Drawn from a
number
of
Critical
Researches By A. ARROWSMITH, Geographer No 24
Rathbone Place, London, 1799.
Each sheet: 24” x 55 1/4”; assembled: 48” x 55 1/4”.
Engraving. Two sheets. Original color. Damage to margins. Some folds split with no loss of printed surface.
Generally very good condition. $9,000.
Item #162 - BRADLEY, Map of the United States, Exhibiting the POST-ROADS, 1796
A large and influential map of the United States with
the interior compiled largely from Indian accounts
supplied by the Hudson’s Bay Company. This is the
second state of the map with only the imprint change
of address to differentiate it from the first state. The
paper on which it is printed is watermarked “1799”.
The map has a rich history with the 1802 version used
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to plan their
expedition. The course of the Missouri River as plotted on the map led Lewis and Clark to conclude that it
provided a shorter and more direct route to the Pacific
Ocean than was actually the case.
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1833) is described by Tooley
as “easily the foremost cartographer of his time”, who
issued about 200 maps; most of which were large
Item #163 - [MICHELL], Gli Stati Uniti..., 1797
Item #164 - ARROWSMITH, A Map of the United States of North America..., 1799
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scaled like this one. He was rewarded in
becoming Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales
(c. 1810) and later to His Majesty (1820). His
sons continued the business. ref: Schwartz and
Ehrenberg; Tooley, Mapping of America, p. 99
(1796 (b) [2nd issue]).
165. LODGE, JOHN / RUSSELL, WILLIAM
AN EXACT MAP of the FIVE GREAT LAKES,
with Part of PENSILVANIA, NEW YORK, CANADA and HUDSONS BAY TERRITORIES, From the
best Surveys, [London], 1800.
8 1/8” x 10 1/8”. Engraving. Excellent. $50.
A later issue of above map #149 in the 1800 edition of William Russell, The History of America.
166. LAURIE & WHITTLE
Item #166 - LAURIE & WHITTLE, A New and General Map..., 1804
was originally published by Thomas Kitchen in 1756 and
the plate was changed some 17 times while passing
through the possession of Thomas Jefferys, Sayer &
Jefferys, Sayer & Bennett, and finally, Laurie & Whittle.
This issue of 1794 shows the Great Lakes as an inset. The
watermark indicates publication in 1804.
ref: Tooley,
Mapping, p. 68.
167. LATTRÉ, JEAN
CARTE DES ETATS-UNIS DE L’AMERIQUE Suivant le
Traité de Paix de [...]. DÉDIÉE ET PRÉSENTÉE A S.
Excellence Mr BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ministre
Plénipotentiaire des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique près la Cour de
France, anc. Présid. de la conventiõ de Pensilvanie et de la
Item #165 - LODGE, An Exact Map of the
Five Great Lakes..., 1800
A NEW and GENERAL MAP OF THE
MIDDLE DOMINIONS BELONGING TO
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, viz.
VIRGINIA,
MARYLAND,
THE
DELAWARE-COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA , NEW JERSEY &c. with the Addition
of NEW YORK, & of the Greatest Part of
NEW ENGLAND &c. as also of the
Bordering Parts of the BRITISH POSSESSIONS in CANADA. LONDON: Published
by LAURIE & WHITTLE, No 53, Fleet
Street. as the Act directs, 12th May, 1794,
London, 1794, [1804].
18 3/4” x 25 3/4”. Engraving, original
color. Excellent condition. $900.
This is the first derivative from the
Lewis Evans map of 1755 to announce the
new “United States”. The derivative map
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Item #167 - LATTRE, Carte des Etats-Unis..., 1784
Société Philosophique de Philadelphie, &c. &c.
Par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur
LATTRÉ. A PARIS chez Delamarche et Chles
Dien. Ru du Jardinet No 13, Paris, 1784.
21 3/8” x 30”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Trimmed close with slight loss of
right border. Otherwise good. $4,200.
This map, in an earlier state, was the first
French map to identify the newly formed
United States.
Delamarche had purchased the plates and
stock of Lattre and added his own name to
the map from the first state of 1784. Both
states of the map are uncommon.
Ristow wrote that the map “is one of the
most attractively designed and executed
maps of the period and reflects the talent
and skill of the artist-cartographer.”
Item #168 - MENZIES, The Course of the River St Laurence..., 1817
The map was dedicated to Benjamin
Franklin, a well-known figure at the Paris
Lawrence and the right side a map of the United States
peace conference, and ambassador to France. Title and
from the east coast to the Mississippi.
dedication are cleverly placed on the unfurled sail of a
John Menzies was an engraver in Edinburgh and in 1816
ship which makes for a memorable and handsome carpublished the first edition of Thomson’s New General
touche. ref: Cappon, The First French Map of the United
Atlas (see maps #175 and #176).
States; Ristow, American Maps, p. 63.
168. MENZIES, J. & G.
THE COURSE of the RIVER ST LAURENCE, from LAKE
ONTARIO to MANICOUGAN POINT./ UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA./ J. & G. Menzies sculpt Edinr
Edinburgh, 1817
16” x 24”. Engraving, two maps side-by-side on one sheet,
original color on right map. Some water staining to left
and lower portions. Otherwise very good condition. $300.
Two maps divided with left side a chart of the St.
169. CARY, JOHN
A NEW MAP of PART of the UNITED STATES OF NORTH
AMERICA, EXHIBITING THE WESTERN TERRITORY,
KENTUCKY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA
&c. ALSO, THE Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario &
Erie; WITH UPPER AND LOWER CANADA &c. FROM
THE LATEST AUTHORITIES. By JOHN CARY, Engineer.
1805. London, 1805.
18 1/8” x 20 3/8”. Engraving, original color. Excellent
condition. $350.
This full-colored map shows all the Great Lakes
and upper midwest.
It is not known if the map was sold separately
before publication of Cary’s New Universal Atlas
which appeared in 1808. It was included in the
atlas but because of the publication date of 1805
may have been issued earlier.
John Cary and his brothers George and Francis
were active engravers and map publishers in
London during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The business was sold in 1844 by the sons of
John Cary.
170. CARY, JOHN
A NEW MAP OF UPPER & LOWER CANADA,
FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES By JOHN
CARY, Engineer. 1807, London, 1807
18” x 20 1/4”. Engraving, original outline color.
Excellent condition. $280.
Item #169 - CARY, A New Map of Part of the United States.., 1805
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district surveyor, Aaron Greeley.
The publication of the disputed titles was published in
Senate Documents, 29th Congress, 2nd session, in 1847.
ref: Karpinski, p. 472.
172. CARY, JOHN
A NEW MAP OF UPPER & LOWER CANADA, FROM
THE LATEST AUTHORITIES By JOHN CARY, Engraver.
1811, London, 1811.
18” x 20 1/4”. Engraving. Original color. Some light offsetting. Otherwise excellent condition. $580.
A map from the 1811 Second edition of the atlas as above.
Item #170 - CARY, A New Map of Upper and Lower Canada.., 1807
A map centered on the Great Lakes but including Lake
Winnipeg, Hudson Bay, the St. Lawrence estuary and the
New England coast.
This map is found in Cary’s New Universal Atlas and
continued to be issued with date changes as late as 1828.
171. GREELEY, AARON
PLAN OF PRIVATE CLAIMS IN MICHIGAN TERRITORY,
[Washington], 1810/1847.
Sheet 1: 24” x 34 1/2”; sheet 2: 22 1/2” x 27”; sheet 3: 24”
x 22”; assembled: 24” x 83 1/2”. Lithograph. Excellent
condition. $250.
These surveys were made in the 1810 timeframe by the
Item #172 - CARY, A New Map of Upper and Lower Canada.., 1811
This second state of the map is considered
to be much more scarce than the first.
173. TARDIEU, PIERRE FRANÇOIS
UNITED STATES of Nth AMERICA CARTE
des ETATS-UNIS DE L’AMERIQUE
SEPTENTRIONALE COPIÉE et GRAVIÉE
sur celle D’ARROWSMITH Corrigée et considérablement augmentée d’Après les renseignemens les plus authentiques Par P. F. TARDIEU,
Graveur, Editeur-propriétaire, Place de
l’Estrapade No 1. À PARIS 1812. Paris, 1812.
Sheets 1 and 2: 24” x 27 3/4”; sheets 3 and
4: 24 1/2” x 27 3/4”; assembled: 48 1/2” x
55 1/2”. Engraving. Cut and mounted
onto four sheets of linen. Includes two-part
nesting case. Edge of linen folded over partially obscures printed area at bottom of
sheet 3. Excellent condition. $4,200.
This is the French version of Arrowsmith’s
influential map of the United States. It was
Item #171 - GREELY, Plan of Private Claims., 1810/1847
(one of three sheets)
74
Item #173 - TARDIEU, United States.., 1812
(Detail of cartouche showing Niagara Falls)
mounted on linen as originally sold with the original box.
The Tardieu firm of engravers and map publishers was
active for over 80 years in Paris from the latter 18th century to the mid-19th.
174. MELISH, JOHN
MAP OF Detroit River and ADJACENT COUNTRY, From an
Original Drawing by a British Engineer, Philadelphia, 1813.
22 3/4” x 17”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $550.
A map of the Detroit River showing fortifications and
military installations and activities. John Melish (17711822) was a Scots traveller, who settled in Philadelphia to
publish maps in 1811. This map appeared in A Military
and
Topographical Atlas of the United States
(Philadelphia, 1813). ref: Karpinski, p. 211.
175. THOMSON, JOHN
Item #174 - MELISH, Map of Detroit River..., 1813
NORTHERN PROVINCES OF THE UNITED STATES,
Edinburgh, 1817.
19 1/2” x 23 1/4”. Engraving, original color. Excellent
condition. $300.
A map depicting Ontario, the St. Lawrence, and the
northeastern part of the United States. Originally appearing in Thomson’s New General Atlas, the map
also includes a view of Niagara Falls.
John Thomson & Company published maps
and atlases in Edinburgh between 1813 and
1869.
176. THOMSON, JOHN
CANADA AND NOVA SCOTIA, Edinburgh,
1819.
18 7/8” x 23 1/2”. Engraving. Original color.
Excellent condition. $500.
Thomson’s Canada and Nova Scotia from the
New General Atlas depicts the Great Lakes
region and Ontario. The Maine boundary was
not yet determined, as shown on the map, and
the representation of “immense forests” in
Ontario is graphically quite interesting.
Amerindian tribal lands are also demarcated.
177. CAREY & LEA
GEOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL, AND HISTORICAL MAP OF MICHIGAN TERRITORY,
Item #175 - THOMSON, Northern Provinces..., 1817
75
8 7/8” x 12”. Engraving. Excellent. $300.
Item #176 - THOMSON, Canada and Nova Scotia..., 1819
Here is a map which gives Michigan territory
claim to Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota.
Fielding Lucas, Jr., published this map of largely
uninhabited land in 1823 when Michigan
Territory was eighteen years old.
Only one dirt-tracked road lead from Mt.
Clemens through Detroit to the present site of
Toledo. The “Indian Line” from the Grand
River to Saginaw Bay, was meant to restrain
expansion and preserve Indian lands to the
north. Lucas also perpetuated the existence of
the island of Philipeaux in Lake Superior—the
long running fiction initiated by Jacques Bellin
in 1744.
The map appeared in Lucas’ A General Atlas
Containing distinct Maps of all the Known
Countries of the World (Baltimore, 1823). ref:
Historical Society of Michigan reproduction, Plate
III (Ann Arbor, 1976).
179. RISDON, O.
MAP OF THE Surveyed Part OF THE TERRITO-
[Philadelphia], 1822.
16 1/2” x 20 5/8”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $400.
The first separate map of Michigan Territory. Henry
Carey and Isaac Lea published in 1822 A Complete
Historical Chronological, and Geographical American
Atlas.
Maps of each state and territory were included along
with useful statistical information. The Michigan
Territory map includes side panels. ref: Karpinski, p. 228.
178. FIELDING, LUCAS
MICHIGAN TER., Baltimore, 1823.
Item #178 - FIELDING, Michigan Ter., 1823
RY OF MICHIGAN BY O. RISDON 1825, Albany,
1825.
42 1/2” x 27 1/2”. Engraving. Original outline
color. Excellent condition. $4,800.
Item #177 - CAREY & LEA, Geographical, Statistical..., 1822
76
This is the first large-scale (four miles to an inch)
and detailed map of the lower counties lying
south of Saginaw Bay. It was published by
Orange Risdon.
Only 10 known copies exist of the famous
Risdon map of southeastern Michigan published
in Albany by Rawdon, Clark & Company in 1825.
It was actually not released until a year later. A
manuscript note on one of the copies is a billing
from Risdon to the printer charging $400 for the
survey work and requesting 472 maps at $7 per
hundred copies.
Risdon is known for this map only and a few
continued his map publishing ventures until death in
1869.
Sheet no. 50 includes Indiana, Ohio, and parts of the
lower lakes. ref: Karpinski, p. 240-3; Imago Mundi, v. 24,
[1970].
181. VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
Amer. Sep. PARTIE DES ETATS-UNIS. No 41, [Brussels],
1825.
18 3/4” x 20 3/8”. Lithograph. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $250.
Sheet No. 41 is a map of part of the Old Northwest
and part of Lake Superior.
182. VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
Amer. Sep. PARTIE DES ETATS-UNIS. No 43, [Brussels],
1825.
18” x 19 3/4”. Lithograph. Original outline color.
Split in centerfold. Otherwise very good. $250.
Sheet No. 43 includes the eastern end of Lake Ontario
as well as the St. Lawrence River and adjacent areas.
183. FINLEY, ANTHONY
CANADA. Philadelphia, 1826[1833].
8 1/2” x 11 1/8”. Lithograph. Original color.
Excellent condition. $125.
Item #179 - RISDON, Map of the Surveyed Part..., 1825
This is the map of Canada and the Great Lakes from
Anthony Finley’s New General Atlas first published in
1824and with editions through 1834.
Finley was active in Philadelphia through the 1830s as
a plublisher. ref: Ristow, American Maps, p. 268-70.
town plans. John Farmer drafted the map but
was given no publication credit. ref: Karpinski,
p. 241; Ristow, American Maps, p. 274; Buisseret,
map #24.
180. VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
Amer. Sep. PARTIE DES ETATS-UNIS. No 50,
[Brussels], 1825.
18 1/2” x 22 1/8”. Lithograph. Original outline color. Torn in two pieces with vertical
central tear. Otherwise very good condition.
$250.
Philippe Vander Maelen was born in Brussels
in 1795. With the encouragement of King
William of Belgium, Vander Maelen undertook the project of the Atlas Universel an atlas
of 400 sheets in 6 volumes.
Vander Maelen was personally responsible
for several of the plates and the subscription
list shows that 810 copies were sold. His success allowed him to establish in Brussels, a
private Geographical Institute from which he
Item #180 - VANDERMAELEN, Amer. Sep. Partie Des
Etats Unis No. 50, 1825
77
Indians. Census data is also included . Sheet No. 42
focuses on the state of Michigan, and Lakes
Michigan, Huron, and Erie.
Item #183 - FINLEY, Canada, 1826/1833
Item #181 - VANDERMAELEN, Amer. Sep. Partie Des
Etats Unis No. 41, 1825
185. PORTER, PETER B. / BARCLAY, ANTHONY
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
Transmitting pursuant to a resolution of the House of
Representatives, of the nineteenth ultimo, A COPY OF
THE MAPS AND REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS UDER THE TREATY OF GHENT, FOR ASCERTAINING THE NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN, Washington, D.C., 1828.
Sheet 1: 14 1/2” x 18 1/2”; sheet 2: 14 1/2” x 18
3/4”; sheet 3: 13 5/8” x 18”; sheet 4: 9” x 14 1/2”;
sheet 5: 38 1/2” x 9”; sheet 6: 14 1/4” x 9 1/2”; sheet
7: 14 3/8” x 18 1/2”. Lithograph. Seven sheets.
Original outline color. Some spotty discoloration,
especially on sheet 4. Otherwise excellent condition. $800.
Item #182 - VANDERMAELEN, Amer. Sep. Partie Des
Etats Unis No. 43, 1825
184. VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
Amer. Sep. HAUT CANADA ET MICHIGAN No 42,
[Brussels], 1827.
18 1/8” x 20 1/8”. Lithograph. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $200.
Another map from the Atlas Universel of Philippe
Vander Malen. The map includes the famous “Indian
Line” to demarcate settlement between whites and
78
Item #185 - PORTER, Letter from the Secretary..., 1828
187. WYLD, JAMES
A New Map OF THE PROVINCE OF LOWER
CANADA, Describing all the Seigneuries,
Townships, Grants of Land, &c. Compiled from
Plans deposited in the PATENT OFFICE QUEBEC; By Samuel Holland, Esqr Surveyor
General, To which is Added A PLAN of the
RIVERS, SCOUDIAC and MAGAGUADAVIC, Surveyed in 1796, 97, and 98, by Order
of the Commissioners, appointed to ascertain the
true RIVER ST. CROIX intended by the
TREATY of PEACE in 1783 BETWEEN HIS
BRITANNIC MAJESTY, and the UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA. LONDON. Published
by JAMES WYLD, Geographer to Her Majesty.
Charing Cross East. Second Edition.
22 5/8” x 34 1/2”. Engraving, original outline color. Excellent condition. $600.
Item #184 - VANDERMAELEN, Amer. Sep. Haut
Canada et Michigan No. 42, 1827
These five maps on seven sheets relate to the boundary
between Canada and the United States and the dispute
with Great Britain over the interpretation of the Treaty of
Ghent.
The maps and report were published in State Papers, Vol.
5, No. 218, of the 20th Congress. ref: Karpinski, p. 456.
186. FARMER, JOHN
AN IMPROVED MAP of the Surveyed Part OF THE Territory
OF MICHIGAN By John Farmer, 1829. [Detroit], 1829.
19 1/2” x 30”. Engraving, with some manuscript annotations.
Original outline color.
Consists of two joined sheets. Paper
slightly age-toned; otherwise excellent condition. $900.
This is the signature map of John
Farmer’s early career. It shows the
lower counties of Michigan which
were surveyed first as well as the
river network and topography.
Farmer came to Detroit as principal
of a school in 1821 but believed that
the opening of the Erie Canal in
1825 would be a boon to western
migration and settlement. He drafted the Risdon map of 1825 (see map
#179) and began working on his
own map which eventually he sent
for engraving at Balch and Stiles in
Utica, New York.
This is the 1829 issue of the map
with others published through 1836
when J.H. Colton bought the copyrights to all Farmer maps. ref:
Karpinski, p. 247; Ristow, American
Maps, p. 273-6.
This map makes the case for the boundary
waters between Canada and the United
States. The map was published in 1829 from
a plate that had been in use since 1803. It is the third of six
issues of the map which was last printed in 1843.
Samuel Holland had a long and illustrious career beginning as a British officer with surveying duties in Canada
as part of the group working on the Murray manuscript
map of French territory. Later, he was active surveying
with the Board of Trade and ended up after the American
Revolution as Surveyor General of Canada. The boundary issue with the United States remained unsettled.
ref: Tooley, Mapping, p. 66-7.
Item #186 - FARMER, An Improved Map of the Surveyed Part.., 1829
79
Item #187 - WYLD, A New Map of the Province...,
189. SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE /
BALDWIN & CRADOCK
NORTH AMERICA Sheet V THE
NORTH WEST AND MICHIGAN TERRITORIES, [London], 1833.
12 1/4” x 14 7/8”.
Engraving.
Original outline color. Excellent condition. $100.
Centered on Lake Michigan and
showing parts of Lake Huron, this is
Sheet V for the Northwest Territories
and Michigan.
The Society for the Diffusion of
Useful Knowledge supported map
publication into the 1870s, but their
first printer was Baldwin & Cradock
from 1829-32. ref: Karpinski, p. 253.
190. STEELE, O. G.
A New & Correct Map OF MICHIGAN from the latest surveys
Published by O.G. STEELE BUFFALO, Buffalo, 1834.
14” x 13”; folds to 4 3/4” x 2 3/4”. Lithograph. Original
color. Excellent condition. $850.
188. FARMER, JOHN
Map OF THE TERRITORIES OF Michigan AND
OUISCONSIN, Detroit,
1831.
20” x 32”; folds to 5 1/4” x
3”. Lithograph. Original
color. Some tears at intersecting folds. Good condition. $600.
A folding map of Michigan using the 1831 David Burr
survey of the lower counties. O. G. Steele of Buffalo was
not known for any other map.
Item #188 - FARMER, 1831
Item #189 - SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, North America Sheet V..., 1833
Item #190 - STEELE, A New & Correct Map of Michigan.., 1834
80
191.
BOYNTON, GEORGE W . / BROADERS,
EDWARD R.
MICHIGAN and the GREAT LAKES, [Boston], 1835.
8” x 10”. Lithograph. Later hand color. Excellent condition. $360.
This map, made by George Boynton of Boston, shows all
Great Lakes. The state of Michigan has numerous invented county names. ref: Karpinski, p. 256.
Item #192 - BROADERS, Michigan and the Great Lakes..., 1835
Item #191 - BOYNTON, Michigan and the Great Lakes..., 1835
192. BROADERS, EDWARD R.
MICHIGAN and the GREAT LAKES, [Boston, 1835].
7 7/8” x 10 1/8”. Engraving. Later hand outline color.
Excellent condition. $360.
x 22”; sheet z (w/ references): 15 7/8” x 22”. Lithograph.
Backed on japanese paper. Some cracking and repairs.
Generally good condition. $4,800.
Here is the magisterial four-sheet map of Detroit in 1835.
Only eight copies are known to exist.
The cartographer was the surveyor, John Farmer, whose
first mapping career spanned the period 1825-35. Farmer
was convinced that the opening of the Erie Canal would
deliver a brisk market for maps from settlers.
Unfortunately, the maps could not yet be printed locally
and Farmer used connections from his home state in New
York for the press runs. He tired of the long distance
arrangements and sold his copyrights to J.H. Colton in
1835. Farmer did not return to the map business until
1844 when he could contract the printing in Detroit.
ref: Karpinski, p. 449.
A small, attractively colored map
of Michigan and the Great Lakes.
The cartography of the west is
quite confused.
The Upper
Peninsula and Wisconsin area is
titled “District of Huron” and
attached to Michigan.
The map appeared in Edward R.
Broaders New Universal Atlas of
60 Maps, Charts and Plans
(Boston, 1835). ref: Karpinski, map
#131.
193. FARMER, JOHN
MAP of the CITY OF DETROIT IN
THE STATE OF MICHIGAN by
John Farmer, District Surveyor Eng.
by
C.B.
&
J.R.
Graham,
Lithographers, No 4 John St New
York. New York, 1835.
Sheet w (w/ Moran farm): 13” x
22”; sheet x (w/ title): 15 1/4” x
22”; sheet y (w/ Welles inset): 13”
Item #193 - FARMER, Map of the City of Detroit..., 1835
81
194. FARMER, JOHN
AN IMPROVED EDITION OF A MAP of the Surveyed Part
OF THE Territory OF MICHIGAN by John Farmer, [Detroit],
1836.
20 1/4” x 30”; folds to 5 1/2” x 3 1/2”. Lithograph.
Original color. Bound. Some tears at intersecting folds
and in right margin. Good condition. $960.
Corrections and additions were made to John Farmer’s
1831 map of Michigan (see #188) and a lithographic version represented here was published in New York Farmer
resided in Detroit from 1821 until his death in 1859 at age
65. He was an active surveyor in the area until 1835.
Since Farmer’s maps were published in Utica, Albany,
and New York City until 1835, he sold the business and
served for a time as chairman of the Detroit School Board.
On his return to map making in 1844 he established an
enterprise which passed through other generations of
Farmers until 1915. ref: Karpinski, p. 255.
Item #195 - BURR, Michigan..., 1836
196. CENTER / ROSE / BERRIEN
SURVEY OF HAVRE BAY, MICHIGAN. Surveyed by Lieuts.
A.J. Center and E. Rose, U.S. Army. 1836. Drawn by J.M.
Berrien, [Washington], 1836.
14” x 19 7/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $100.
Item #194 - FARMER, 1836
This army topographical survey was conducted at the
mouth of the Ottawa River in Lake Erie which was then
thought to be in Michigan but was later ruled to be in
Ohio. The map was published in the Proceedings of the
25th Congress, 2nd Session, Document #175. ref:
Karpinski, p. 464.
195. BURR, DAVID
MICHIGAN Drawn & Published by David H.
Burr, NEW-YORK. New York, 1836.
12 1/2” x 10 5/8”. Lithograph. Original
color. Excellent condition. $140.
This map was published by the
renowned cartographer, David Burr. Burr
was befriended by Gov. DeWitt Clinton
and went on to produce in 1830 an atlas of
New York—only the second state atlas
(following the 1825 Robert Mills atlas of
South Carolina). Burr’s map of Michigan,
which appeared in his New Universal
Atlas was based on the Farmer map of
1830, with an oddly “tilted” Lake
Michigan. (See maps #198 and #199). ref:
Karpinski, pp. 248-51.
Item #196 - CENTER/ROSE/BERRIEN, Survey of Havre Bay..., 1836
82
197. BURR, DAVID H.
Map of MICHIGAN & PART
OF WISCONSIN TERRITORY, Exhibiing the Post Offices,
Post Roads, Canals, Rail Roads
&c. BY David H. Burr. (Late
Topographer to the Post Office.)
Geographer to the House of
Representatives of the U.S.,
Washington, D.C., 1839.
37” x 49 1/2”. Lithograph.
Original color.
Cut and
mounted on linen. Excellent
condition. $2,000.
Only twelve large maps
exist in this series and all are
scarce because each postmaster had to purchase his own
map, at a time when David
Burr
was
serving
as
Topographer of the Post
Office.
The map was used to show
groups of states and territories with their post offices,
distances between them, and four types of post roads
showing from one to four horse roads. The size was so
large that no American printer was capable of doing it, so
Burr turned to the London firm of Arrowsmith for publication.
Many of the individual maps were sold in the folded
state, as this one, which eliminated chipping from the map
surface during use. Many maps from the series were shellaced or mounted on rollers and are in generally terrible
condition.
Burr’s career in cartography was distinguished and in
1838 he was appointed Geographer to the House of
Representatives. ref: Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p. 261;
Karpinski, map #147; Ristow, American Maps, pp. 103-8.
Item #197 - BURR, Map of Michigan..., 1839
A later version of map #195 from Jeremiah Greenleaf’s
New Universal Atlas. The 1842 version includes new
counties and the Ohio boundary.
198. GREENLEAF, JEREMIAH / BURR, DAVID
MICHIGAN, [Boston], 1840.
12 1/2” x 10 5/8”. Lithograph. Original color. Excellent
condition. $140.
Maps have become scarce from Jeremiah Greenleaf’s
New Universal Atlas of 1840. Greenleaf (1791-1864) may
have purchased the copyright to the atlas because this
map of Michigan is a restrike of the David Burr map of
1831/36. (See maps #195 and #199). The map utilizes the
“tilted” shape of Lake Michigan, with variations to the
Indina Line and the Michigan Central terminus in
Kalamazoo. ref: Karpinski, map #152.
199. GREENLEAF, JEREMIAH / BURR, DAVID
MICHIGAN, [Boston, 1842].
12 1/2” x 10 5/8”. Lithograph. Original color. Excellent
condition. $140.
Item #198 - GREENLEAF, Michigan, 1840
83
Emigrant guides and guide books to the midwest have a
lengthy tradition. This map was the work of John Calvin
Smith, a surveyor and later publisher in New York active
from the late 1830s through the Civil War.
Some publishers gave up atlas production to take advantage of this growing market opportunity. This map published by Colton in 1844 was still being issued in 1857.
Much of the geographic interest was spurred by the 1848
California gold rush.
201. FARMER, JOHN
MAP OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN And the Surrounding
Country, Exhibiting the Sections and the latest surveys COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES BY JOHN
FARMER Detroit 1844, Detroit, 1844.
32” x 23”; folds to 5 3/4” x 3 3/4”. Lithograph. Original
outline color. Excellent condition. $2,450.
Item #199 - GREENLEAF, Michigan, 1842
200. SMITH, JOHN CALVIN / COLTON, J.H.
GUIDE THROUGH OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, WISCONSIN & IOWA, Showing the
Township lines of the United States Surveys, Location of Cities,
Towns, Villages, Post Hamlets, Canals, Rail and Stage Roads.
BY J. CALVIN SMITH, NEW YORK. Published by J.H.
Colton, 86 Cedar St. 1844. New York, 1844.
19” x 24 3/8”. Engraving. Some yellowing and damage
to folds. One clean tear repaired. Otherwise very good
condition. $700.
Here is the “mother
map” of John Farmer,
who returned to map
publication in 1844 and
took this map through
23 editions until 1873.
The
maps
and
gazetteers Farmer produced had stimulated
emigration to Michigan
throughout the 1830s.
Between 1836 and 1844,
Farmer devoted his time
to interests other than
map publishing, serving
for a time as county surItem #201 - FARMER, 1844
veyor
and
school
inspector.
Farmer’s return to mapping in 1844 was
celebrated by the publication of this map
with its carefully drawn section lines.
Son Silas carried on the family business
until 1902.
ref: Ristow, Maps and
Mapmakers.
202. RADEFELD, CARL CHRISTIAN
FRANZ
NEUESTE KARTE von MICHIGAN Nach
den besten Quellen verbessert 1845,
Amsterdam, 1845.
14 3/4” x 11 3/4”. Engraving. Original
outline color. Excellent condition. $600.
Maps to encourage immigration have a
promotional value and a target market. In
this case, the map of Michigan by Carl
Christian Franz Radefeld (1788-1874)
appeared in Meyer’s Handatlas published
in Hildburghausen about 1848 to show
the developing rail network and rich natural resources available to emigrants from
Germany and other European states.
Item #200 - SMITH/COLTON, Guide through Ohio..., 1844
84
Items #204 & 205 - WALKER,
Western Hemisphere & Eastern Hemisphere, 1846
Jas Wyld, Geographer to HER MAJESTY. CHARING CROSS
EAST, London, 1846.
22 1/4” 34 1/4”. Engraving, original outline color. Small
split in fold. Otherwise excellent condition. $600.
Item #202 - RADEFELD, Neueste Karte..., 1845
This publication converged with the European revolutionary turmoil of 1848 and must have found an eager
audience of craftsmen and workers ready to emigrate to
more tranquil settings in America.
203. WYLD, JAMES
A MAP of the Province of UPPER CANADA describing ALL
THE NEW SETTLEMENTS, TOWNSHIPS, &c. WITH THE
COUNTRIES ADJANCENT, FROM Quebec to Lake Huron.
COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS in the
SURVEYOR GENERAL’S OFFICE. LONDON, Published by
A large and attractive map of Ontario and adjacent Great
Lakes originally published by William Faden in 1800 and
surveyed by David William Smyth, the Surveyor General
of Canada.
After 1831, the map was issued by James Wyld. The state
of 1846 is unrecorded but at least seven different issues
preceeded it. ref: Tooley, Mapping of America, p.102.
204.
WALKER, SAMUEL
WESTERN HEMISPHERE, Boston, 1846.
8 1/2” x 7 5/8”. Engraving. Excellent condition. $150.
Small attractive circular
map of the Western
Hemisphere by Samuel
Walker of Boston.
205.
WALKER, SAMUEL
EASTERN HEMISPHERE,
Boston, 1846.
8 1/2” x 7 5/8”. Engraving.
Excellent condition. $150.
Matching attractive circular map of the Eastern
Hemisphere by Samuel
Walker of Boston.
Item #203 - WYLD, A Map of the Province of Upper Canada..., 1846
85
206. ENSIGN, BRIDGMAN & FANNING / ATWOOD
MAP OF THE WESTERN STATES, New York, 1848/1856.
21 3/4” x 27”; folds to
5 3/8” x 3 1/2”.
Lithograph. Original
color. Bound. Holes
at most of the intersecting
folds.
Significant tears in left
and right sides. Good
condition. $475.
Item #206 - ENSIGN, 1848/1856
Detailed lithographic
map of the upper
midwest with inset
maps of Detroit and
other cities.
This New York firm
was in existence during the mid-19th century and noted for the
traveller’s guides represented here.
A lithographic map of Michigan in 1850 with counties,
canals, and roads, published by Thomas, Cowperthwait &
Company in Philadelphia. The firm was in business from
about 1838 to 1853 and took over the copyright to Samuel
Augustus Mitchell’s immensely popular New Universal
Atlas, which was expanded to 122 maps from the previous
117. ref: Ristow, American Maps.
208. TALLIS, J. & F. / RAPKIN, J.
EAST CANADA, AND NEW BRUNSWICK, [London, 1851].
10 1/8” x 13 3/8”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $250.
This attractive steel plate engraving of the St. Lawrence
River, eastern Canada, and New Brunswick was a product
of the publishing venture of John Tallis and Company,
with offices in London and New York. It appeared in 1851
in the Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World.
207. THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO.
A NEW MAP OF MICHIGAN with the CANALS, ROADS &
DISTANCES; PUBLISHED BY THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & Co. No 253 Market Street, Philadelphia, 1850.
14 3/4” x 11 3/4”. Engraving. Original color. Excellent
condition. $100.
Item #208 - TALLIS/RAPKIN, East Canada..., 1851
Item #207 - THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO.,
A New Map of Michigan..., 1850
86
Item #209 - TALLIS/RAPKIN, West Canada..., 1851
209. TALLIS, J. & F. / RAPKIN, J.
WEST CANADA, [London, 1851]
9 7/8” x 12 3/4”. Engraving. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $650.
Another map from the Illustrated Atlas of John
Tallis. This shows the Province of Ontario and adjacent Great Lakes.
210. COLTON, G.W. & C.B. / J.H. COLTON & CO.
COLTON’S LAKE SUPERIOR AND THE NORTHERN PART OF MICHIGAN, New York, 1855.
13” x 15 7/8”. Engraving. Original color. Excellent
condition. $100.
A map of the state of Michigan with all surveyed
counties in the lower peninsula. It was published by
Charles B. Colton (1832-1916) and George
Woolworth Colton (1827-1901) in New York. ref:
Karpinski, p. 280.
211. FARMER, JOHN
IMPROVED Map OF THE TERRITORIES OF Michigan
AND OUISCONSIN On a scale of 50 Geographical Miles to an
inch BY JOHN FARMER of Detroit 1836. Detroit, 1836.
20 3/8” x 33 3/4”. Engraving, original color. Mounted on
linen. Some damage to left and right margins with some
loss of printed surface. Otherwise excellent condition.
$1,750.
An impressive map of the upper region of the Old
Northwest, mounted on a bias so that the top of the map
is actually NNE. It includes full development of the
upper lakes and was engraved by Rawdon, Clark &
Company. ref: Ristow, American Maps, p. 276.
Item #210 - COLTON, Colton’s Lake Superior..., 1855
212. DESILVER, CHARLES / HAZZARD, J.J.
A NEW MAP OF MICHIGAN BY J.J. HAZZARD Published
by CHARLES DESILVER No 714 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1856.
13 1/4” x 16 1/4”. Lithograph. Original color. Excellent
condition. $550.
Charles Desilver published atlases in Philadelphia from
1856-1862. Apparantly, the business was not a great financial success because all Desilver atlases are scarce.
Particularly the later atlases, where his address is listed as
714 Chesnut St. rather than 251 Market St. have escaped
the attention of cartobibliographers.
Item #211 - FARMER, Improved Map of The Territories of Michigan and Ouisconsin..., 1836
87
A map of this type had limited appeal and limited
circulation. It remains a peculiar expression of purposeful cartography and a map which deserves to
complete any collection of Great Lakes or Canadian
material.
214. ANON.
The points where private claims conflict with the Plan of
the City are indicated by dotted lines, [Washington,
1860].
6 1/4” x 10 7/8”. Lithograph. Excellent. $260.
A map showing disputed claims over lot lines and
property ownership in the vicinity of Woodward
and Jefferson in Detroit. Several of the old land
claims were never settled from the original plat at
the time of Fort Shelby. See also map #227. From
U.S. Congress. American State Papers. Public
Lands. v. 6 between p. 270-1. Washington, 1860.
Item #212 - DESILVER/HAZZARD, A New Map of Michigan..., 1856
This lithograph map of Michigan adds at
least one hundred town names, as well as
Charlevoix County, from earlier issues.
Michigan is still missing three counties in the
lower peninsula and seven in the upper. Also,
there appears a defunct “Wyandot” county
next to Cheboygan. ref: Karpinski #204.
213. PETRI, GIROLAMO
PROVINCIA ECCLESIASTICA DI QUEBEC
NEL CANADÁ, Rome, 1858.
18 7/8” x 25”. Engraving, original color.
Excellent condition. $3,000.
Here is a phenomenally rare cultural map
showing Canadian branches of a Catholic
ecclesiastical organization.
The map’s purpose was to indicate missions
in Canada. Religious settlements are recorded
in Quebec, London, and Montreal. Other sites
at Winnipeg and St. Jean were probably for
Indian conversions.
Item #213 - PETRI, Provincia Ecclesiastica..., 1858
215. ANON.
PLAN OF DETROIT... [1807] Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila.,
[Washington, 1860].
10 1/2” x 8 1/4”. Lithograph. Split in fold, otherwise excellent condition. $320.
Includes area between Grand Circus and the Detroit
River as the city evolved from Judge Woodward’s
plan. Lot lines with numbers, sections, and some
illustrations of buildings are indicated. Also added
is a table of references, “A-M”
From U.S. Congress. American State Papers. Public
Lands. v. 6 between p. 270-1. Washington, 1860.
Item #214 - ANON, The Points where Private Claims.., 1860
88
217. FARMER, JOHN
PLAT of the CITY OF DETROIT as laid out by the Govr and
Judges, [Washington, 1860].
18 1/2” x 11 5/8”. Lithograph. Excellent condition. $320.
Plat map of Detroit similar to the maps of John Mullett
(see map #220). This map was drawn on a reduced scale
from a survey by John Farmer.
From U.S. Congress. American State Papers. Public
Lands. v. 3. Washington, 1860.
Item #215 - ANON, Plan of Detroit.., 1807/1860
216. ANON.
Plan of the MILY RESERVATION at DETROIT... [c. 1810]
Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila., [Washington, 1860].
12 1/2” x 8 1/2”. Lithograph. Original outline color.
Excellent condition. $320.
A military plan of Fort Lernault/Shelby with outline
color to indicate military land claims. Private claims and
church lots appear on the Fort’s boundaries. From U.S.
Congress. American State Papers. Public Lands. v. 3.,
Washington, 1860.
Item #216 - ANON, Plan of the Mily Reservation..., 1810/1860
218. FARMER, JOHN
DETROIT 1812. Copy of Sketch by Wm. Evans, [Detroit,
1880].
16 1/4” x 22 1/4” . Manuscript, ink on paper, with lithograph title. Some discoloration in the margins. Otherwise
excellent condition. $1,200.
The Evans plan of 1812 “from a map in the Detroit Public
Library” is the survivor—the original has been lost.
Defenses and streets are indicated. Because of pencil
annotations on the parapets and the addition of a flagpole,
it is possible that this is a much older prototype from
which other copies were taken.
219. FARMER, JOHN
DETROIT 1796/PLAN OF DETROIT 1807 COPIED FROM
A LITHOGRAM OF COMPTON AND GIBSON, MAIN ST.,
BUFFALO, N.Y. (BY R.J. MACKEY), [Detroit, 1880].
18” x 8 1/4”. Manuscript, ink on paper. Mounted on
linen. Some discoloration of the paper in the margins.
Otherwise excellent condition. $2,200.
Item #217 - FARMER, Plat of the City of Detroit..., 1860
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Item #218 - FARMER, Detroit 1812..., 1880
This was probably the manuscript from which the smaller scale “Detroit and Its Environs” was published in 1876.
Both were utilized as inset maps.
Silas Farmer collaborated with the surveyor E. C. Skinner
to reproduce the 1796 fortification plan and the 1807 Judge
Woodward plan for the modern city.
Item #219 - FARMER, 1880
220. MULLETT, JOHN
PLAN OF DETROIT BY JOHN MULLETT 1830... Bowen &
Co. Lith. Phila., [Washington, 1860].
18” x 14”. Lithograph. Excellent condition. $360.
One of the key maps to the growth and development of
early Detroit. It shows numbered lots, sections, sewers
and building elevations with a table of references to
important features.
The downtown shows Judge Woodward’s plan of the
Grand Circus as a “wheel with spokes”, the Campus
Martius, and the waterfront.
From U.S. Congress. American State Papers. Public
Lands. v.6, opp. p.271. Washington, 1860.
221. MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS / GAMBLE, W.H.
COUNTY MAP OF MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN,
Philadelphia, 1863.
11 1/2” x 13 3/4”. Engraving. Original color. Excellent
condition. $100.
Here is a lithographic map of Michigan and Wisconsin
with roads and towns and divided into counties
The map was published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell,
Jr., son of the man of the same name, who was a prolific
publisher of geographical works. Ristow notes that the
senior Mitchell employed as many as 250 workers in the
Philadelphia premises he took over from Henry S. Tanner.
The map is from the 1863 edition of the New General
Atlas which was published between 1860 and 1893.
ref: Ristow, American Maps; Schwartz and Ehrenberg.
90
Item #220 - MULLET, Plan of Detroit..., 1830/1860
Item #223 - COLTON, 1866
Item #222 - JOHNSON & WARD, Johnson’s Michigan.., 1863
222.. JOHNSON & WARD
JOHNSON’S MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN, [New York],
1863.
17 1/4” x 23 7/8”. Lithograph. Original color. Excellent
condition. $220.
This is a map for the railroad age. It shows rail development throughout Michigan, Wisconsin, and the Chicago
area. There is an inset of the Straits of Mackinac.
The map appeared in Johnson’s New Illustrated (Steel
Plate) Family Atlas, published during the Civil War period of 1863/4. Johnson and Ward, publishers, were the
successors to the J. H. Colton firm. The maps were
engraved on steel plates and then transferred to lithographic stones for reproduction. ref: Karpinski, map #236.
223. COLTON, G.W. & C.B.
COLTON’S MAP OF THE WESTERN STATES SHOWING
THE COUNTIES, TOWNSHIPS, AND RAILROADS,
CITIES, TOWNS, RAILROAD STATIONS, &c., New York,
1866.
20” x 27 1/2”; folds to 5 1/2” x 3 1/2”. Lithograph.
Original color. Bound. Some tears at intersecting folds
and in right margin. Good condition. $280.
Also titled Colton’s New Railroad Map of the States of Ohio,
Michigan...., here is a detailed survey of the upper midwest with inset views of Arch Rocks, Lake Superior, and
Maidens Rock, Lake Pepin, on the Mississippi.
The lithographic map is the collaborative work of
Charles B. Colton and George Woolworth Colton, map
publishers of New York. (See also maps #210 and #225).
ref: Karpinski, map #260.
224.. BOWEN & CO., LTD
SKETCH OF THE PUBLIC SURVEYS IN MICHIGAN,
Philadelphia, 1866.
20 1/2” x 20 1/8”. Lithograph. Original outline color.
Some tears in left margin and at intersecting folds. Good
condition. $150.
Bowen and Company were lithographers of Philadelphia
who had assisted John Farmer with the lithography of
maps of Michigan in the 1830s. This map of 1866 shows
survey ranges, railroads, and towns of Michigan. ref:
Karpinski, p. 498.
225. COLTON, G.W. & C.B.
COLTON’S MICHIGAN, New York, 1867.
15” x 12 1/2”; folds to 4 1/2” x 2 7/8”. Lithograph.
Original color. Bound. Some tears at intersecting folds.
Excellent condition. $250.
Item #221 - MITCHELL, County Map of Michigan.., 1863
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Item #224 - BOWEN & CO., Sketch of the Public Surveys..., 1866
Item #225 - COLTON, Colton’s Michigan, 1867
A pocket map of great value to prospective settlers.
It was published by brothers George W. and Charles
B. Colton in New York. At this point, the original
metal engraving plate had been transferred to lithographic stone. (See map #210 for the 1855 edition.).
ref: Karpinski, p. 282.
226. FARMER, SILAS / FARMER, JOHN
FARMER’S RAIL ROAD & TOWNSHIP MAP OF
MICHIGAN AND CHART OF THE LAKES FROM
U.S. SURVEYS & OTHER AUTHENTI C SOURCES.
DRAWN AND ENGRAVED BY JOHN FARMER,
C.E., Detroit, 1868.
29 3/8” x 23 3/4”. Engraving. Original color. Some
browning and reinforcement at fold. Generally very
good condition. $750.
Here is a larger scale map of both peninsulas of
Michigan with county boundaries. It was published
by Silas Farmer (d. 1902), son of John, and was
intended as a folding map, complete in this instance
with the cover. ref: Karpinski, p. 302.
227. FARMER, SILAS / SKINNER, E.C.
MAP OF LOTS ON JEFFERSON AVENUE,
BETWEEN GRISWOLD & SHELBY STREETS. JULY
18, 1824. Copy of Plat in possession of J. F. Munro, said
to have been obtained by him from Mulletts papers. E.C.
Skinner. 1876. Detroit, 1876.
9” x 14 1/4”. Manuscript, ink on paper. Excellent
condition. $1,000.
Surveyors were confused with the ownership of
plats of the original claims from the French period.
E. C. Skinner was a surveyor and advertised him-
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Item #226 - FARMER, Farmer’s Rail Road & Township
Map of Michigan..., 1868
Item #227 - FARMER, Map of the Lots..., 1876
self as the source for “the only abstract books in the county”.
This manuscript map was drawn to show the four blocks
of “old claims” between Woodward Avenue and the present site of Cobo Hall as contested in 1824.
Item #229 - ANON, Plan of the City of Detroit., 1894
228. CRAM, GEORGE F.
NEW SECTIONAL MAP OF MICHIGAN,
Chicago, 1885.
39” x 29”; folds to 5 3/8” x 3 1/2”.
Lithograph. Original color. Bound. One
small hole at folds, otherwise excellent condition. $650.
A large and detailed lithographic map of
both peninsulas of Michigan in 1885. Roads,
towns, and railroads are indicated.
George Cram (1841-1928) published maps
and atlases in Chicago.
229. ANON.
PLAN OF THE CITY OF DETROIT, [n.p.],
1894.
11 1/8” x 14”. Lithogaph. Original color.
Excellent condition. $150.
The city center of Detroit is laid out with
railroads and major streets as it was in 1894.
230. WATSON, GAYLORD
DETROIT, [Chicago, 1885].
10” x 12”.
Lithograph. Original color.
Excellent condition. $200.
Pre-automotive Detroit is represented in this
map from Watson’s New and Complete
Illustrated Atlas of the World.
The 1885 pattern of railways continues to this
day. The map was reproduced using the chromoxylographic method. A separate block of
wood was carved for each color. Correct color
ink was applied to the raised surface of each
block and the image is transferred from the
wood block to paper—color by color.
Item #228 - CRAM, New Sectional Map of Michigan..., 1885
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Item #231 - MICHIGAN DEPT OF STATE HIGHWAYS,
Michigan Great Lake State, 1978
(detail showing “go blu” and “beat OSU”)
Item #230 - WATSON, Detroit, 1885
231. MICHIGAN DEPT OF STATE HIGHWAYS AND
TRANSPORTATION / STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
MICHIGAN GREAT LAKE STATE, [Lansing], 1978.
29 3/4” x 28 3/4”; folds to 3 3/4” x 7 1/2”. Lithograph.
Original color. Excellent condition. $200.
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The state cartographer of Michigan took license south of
the state border when he added two text fragments with
a particularly partisan meaning. Along the western segment of the Ohio Turnpike can be found in separate locations, “go blu” and “beat OSU”.
One source claims this was the cartographer’s final year
before retirement, but in any case, the special insignia
were not repeated in subsequent printings.
A T L A S E S
233. WAYNE, C. P. / MARSHALL,
JOHN
THE LIFE OF George Washington.
MAPS AND Subscribers’ Names.
PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY
C. P. WAYNE. 1807. Philadelphia,
1807.
4to. Cardboard cover with original printed label. Ten engraved
maps. Paper age-toned and spotted. Fair condition. $300.
This is an atlas of campaign maps
of the Revolutionary War designed
as a companion to John Marshall’s
life of Washington. It includes the
list of subscriber’s names to the
publication.
234. THOMAS & ANDREWS /
ARROWSMITH & LEWIS
NEW AND ELEGANT GENERAL
ATLAS. COMPRISING ALL THE
Item #232 - POPPLE, A Map of the British Empire in America..., 1733
NEW DISCOVERIES, TO THE
PRESENT TIME. CONTAINING
232. POPPLE, HENRY
SIXTY THREE MAPS, Drawn by Arrowsmith and Lewis.
A MAP of the BRITISH EMPIRE in AMERICA with the
INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY THE NEW IMPROVED
FRENCH and SPANISH SETTLEMENTS adjacent thereto.
EDITION OF MORSE’S GEOG-RAPHY, BUT EQUALLY
by Henry Popple, London, 1733.
WELL CALCULATED TO BE USED WITH HIS
Folio. Cardboard cover. Twenty-one engraved maps.
GAZETTEER, OR ANY OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL WORK.
Original binding. List of maps in facsimile. Original
BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS & ANDREWS.
color. Excellent condition. $65,000.
SOLD AT THEIR BOOKSTORE, NO. 45, NEWBURYSTREET, AND BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN
This is a splendid copy of the earliest large scale map of
THE UNITED STATES. MAY, 1812. Boston, 1812.
North America and the first printed map to name the thir4to. Cardboard cover, detached. Sixty-three lithograph
teen colonies.
maps, including two folding. Later amateur color. Fair
Twenty sheets plus the index map comprise the atlas. It
condition. $1,500.
remains the best British effort to map North America until
the John Mitchell map (see map #129) was completed in
235. MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS
1755.
MITCHELL’S NEW GENERAL ATLAS, CONTAINING
Popple’s map was compiled from a blend of French and
MAPS OF THE VARIOIUS COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD,
British sources. De l’Isle’s 1703 Carte du Canada and the
PLANS OF CITIES, ETC., EMBRACED IN FIFTY-EIGHT
1718 Carte de la Louisiana are among the most important.
QUARTO MAPS, FORMING A SERIES OF NINETY-TWO
Dedicated to Queen Caroline and with a testimonial from
MAPS AND PLANS, TOGETHER WITH VALUABLE STASir Edmund Halley on the its accuracy, the map attained a
TISTICAL TABLES. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY S.
notoriety which would later draw critical comment.
AUGUSTUS MITCHELL, JR., No. 31 SOUTH SIXTH
However, as the cartographer John Green pointed out, a
STREET 1866. Philadelphia, 1866.
map can only be as accurate as its sources. And ultimateFolio. Cardboard cover. Ninety-one maps. Poor condily, Popple’s map was distributed to each colony in
tion. $600.
America by direction of the Lords Commissioners of
Trade and Plantations.
Mitchell’s New General Atlas was published for the first
The Popple map represented a renewed British interest in
time in 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., whose prominent
mapping America which would mature in 1755 with the
father had retired that year. Editions of the atlas were
Mitchell map and again without benefit of official entities
published annually to 1887 with a progressive increase in
to support the work required. ref: Cumming and Wallis,
the number of maps. The maps were reproduced by
“Introductory Notes” Henry Popple’s Map (Lympne Castle,
lithography and were printed uncolored. ref: Ristow,
1978).
American Maps, p.313.
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236. MILNER, THOMAS / PETERMANN, AUGUSTUS
A DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY, AND OF
PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY.
With
Descriptive Letter-Press, BY THE REV. THOMAS MILNER,
M.A., F.R.G.S., AUTHOR OF “THE GALLERY OF
NATURE,” ETC. THE MAPS OF PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, CONSTRUCTED, OR CAREFULLY
REVISED AND CORRECTED BY AUGUSTEUS PETERMANN, F.R.G.S., HONORARY MEMBER OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF BERLIN. LONDON: WARD
AND LOCK, 158, FLEET STREET, London, 1867.
Folio. Cardboard cover wrapped in tooled leather. Cover
missing from spine. Binding completely deteriorated.
Sixty-six maps. Poor condition. $50.
This geography with appended astronomy text was published in London in 1867. It contains 66 lithographed and
colored maps.
237. MILLER, J. MARTIN
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ATLAS OF THE COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL WORLD
WITH A DESCRIPTION OF EVERY KNOWN LAND,
BOTH NEAR AND REMOTE, ANCIENT AND MODERN..., [1902].
Folio. Cardboard cover. Fifty-seven maps. Binding somewhat deteriorated. Fair condition. $100.
Here is a fine example of the combination of atlas, geographic encyclopedia, history, and gazeteer. The first edition was published in 1899 and updated periodically with
new information. This is the 1902 edition.
238. GEORGE A. OGLE & CO.
STANDARD ATLAS OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY MICHIGAN INCLUDING A PLAT BOOK OF THE VILLAGES,
CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY. MAP OF
THE STATE, UNITED STATES AND WORLD. Patrons
Directory, Reference Business Directory and Departments
devoted to General Information. ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM OF U.S. LAND SURVEYS, DIGEST OF THE SYSTEM
OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT, ETC. ETC. Compiled and
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Published BY GEO. A. OGLE & CO. PUBLISHERS &
ENGRAVERS. CHICAGO. 1915. Chicago, 1915
Folio. Cardboard cover, partially detached. Forty-four
maps. Good condition. $125.
239. ADRIAN DAILY TELEGRAM / THRIFT PRESS
PLAT BOOK of Lenawee County Michigan, Adrian, Mich.,
1928.
Folio. Paper cover deteriorating. Twenty-five maps. Fair
condition. $125.
County atlas production began about 1850 and the format seems to have occurred to several individuals at
about the same time. The development was aided by the
steam rotary printing press, the use of zinc plates in place
of fragile lithographic stones, and the invention of cheap
paper made from wood pulp. Prosperous farmers were
encouraged to subscribe by selling them a half-page or
page depicting their idealized fileds, livestock and equipment.
This atlas of Lenawee County in southeast Michigan is
part of the genre. It was late enough so that the printing
could be done locally. ref: Ristow, American Maps, pp.40325.
240. BAIST, WM E. & H. V.
BAIST’S REAL ESTATE ATLAS OF SURVEYS OF
DETROIT AND SUBURBS MICHIGAN. COMPLETE IN
THREE VOLUMES PREPARED From Official Records,
Private Plans & Actual Surveys BY G. WM BAIST’S SONS
WM E. & H. V. BAIST SURVEYORS 1238 West Cambria St.
PHILADELPHIA. COPYRIGHTED BY G. WM BAIST’S
SONS 1929, Philadelphia, 1929.
Folio. Cardboard cover wrapped in stamped hide.
Lithographed maps in original color mounted on linen.
Some index tabs in volumes one and three damaged.
Otherwise excellent condition. Volume one: 37 maps; volume two: 37 maps; volume three: 20 maps. $750.
A three volume commercial atlas of Detroit and suburbs
showing the surveyed and developed areas on 94 maps
and plans.
B O O K S
241. DE HENNEPIN, LOUIS
DESCRIZIONE DELLA LVIGIANA; Paese nuouamente scoperte nel-l’America Settentrionale, sotto gl’auspicij DEL
CHRISTIANISSIMO LVIGI XIV. Con la Carta Geografica del
mede-simo, costumi, e maniere di viuere di que’ Seluaggi. DEL
P. LVIGI HENNEPIN Francescano Recolletto, e Missionario
Apostolico in questa Scoperta. Tradotto dal Francese, e
Dedicata AL REVERENDISS. P. D. LODOVICO DE’ CONTI
GVERRA Abbate Casinense di S. Procolo di Bologna. In
Bologna, per Giacomo Monti. 1686, Con licenza de’ Superiori,
Bologna, 1686.
242. JOUTEL
A JOURNAL Of the LAST VOYAGE Perform’d by Monsr. de
la Sale, TO THE GULPH of MEXICO, To find out the Mouth
of the Missisipi River; CONTAINING, An Account of the
Settlements he endeavour’d to make on the Coast of the aforesaid
Bay, his unfortunate Death, and the Travels of his Companions
for the Space of Eight Hundred Leagues across that Inland
Country of America, now call’d Louisiana (and given by the
King of France to M. Crozat,) till they came into Canada.
Written in French by Monsieur JOUTEL, A Commander in
that Expedition; And Translated from the Edition just publish’d
at Paris. With an exact Map of that vast
Country, and a Copy of the Letters Patents
granted by the K. of France to M. Crozat. LONDON, Printed for A. Bell at the Cross-Keys and
Bible in Cornhill, B. Lintott at the Cross Keys in
Fleet-street, and J. Baker in Pater-Noster-Row,
1714. London, 1714.
8vo. Ornamental calf binding. One folding
map. Excellent condition. $5,500.
Item #241 - DE HENNEPIN, Descrizione Dellalvigiana..., 1686
First English edition of LaSalle’s last
American voyage in 1684-6, his expedition
to determine the location of the mouth of the
Mississippi, his failure to find it, and the
establishment of a settlement at Matagorda
Bay, Texas.
Henri Joutel was second-in-command and
describes the murder of LaSalle by his own
men, and the trek back to Quebec for the
12mo. Calf binding. One folding map.
Excellent condition. $4,000.
Fr. Louis Hennepin planned an expedition
down the Mississippi in 1678 to coordinate
with La Salle. They proceeded separately
and met up later to compare notes for a
better description of the country.
Early on, Hennepin journeyed past
Niagara Falls and thus became the first
European to see it. Later, Fort St. Joseph
was constructed near the present site of
Niles, Michigan.
In 1680, Hennepin was delegated by La
Salle to explore the upper Mississippi and
discovered the Falls of St. Anthony on the
present site of Minneapolis. He later said
that he had followed the Mississippi down
to its mouth, but this claim has been discredited.
This is the Italian edition, published in
1686 from the French of 1683. It includes
the map, Carte della nuova Francia, showing
North America with exaggerated Great
Lakes and course of the upper Mississippi.
Item #242 - JOUTEL, A Journal of the Last Voyage..., 1714
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survivors via Chicago ending in 1688.
The book includes a descriptive account of the many
Indian tribes encountered and a map of the Mississippi
River and the Great Lakes. The map is titled, A new map of
the country of Louisiana and of ye River Missisipi, with an
inset of Niagara Falls.
The English translation of the book, published a year
after the French, also includes the text of Louis XIV’s
grant of Louisiana to Crozat.
Item #243 - LAHONTAN, Voyages du Baron de Lahontan..., 1728
243. LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
VOYAGES DU BARON DE LAHONTAN DANS
L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, Qui contiennent une
Rélation des différens Peuples qui y habitent; la nature de leur
Gouvernement; leur Commerce, leurs Coûtumes, leur Religion,
& leur maniére de faire la Guerre: L’Intérêt des François & des
Anglois dans le Commerce qu’ils font avec ces Nations; l’a-vantage que l’Angleterre peut retirer de ce Païs, étant en Guerre
avec la France, Le tout enrichi de Cartes & de Figures. Seconde
Edition, revuë, corrigée, & augmentée. A AMSTERDAM, Chez FRANÇOIS L’HONORÉ, vis-àvis de la Bourse. [vol. 3:] Chez la Veuve de BOETEMAN. M.DCC.XXVIII. Amsterdam, 1728.
12mo. Calf binding. Three volumes. Nine
maps, 19 figures. Excellent condition. $2,200.
Counsel, and Surveyor-General of New-York. To which are
added, Accounts of the several other Nations of Indians in
North-America, their Numbers, Strength, &c. and the Treaties
which have been lately made with them. The SECOND EDITION. LONDON: Printed for JOHN WHISTON at Mr.
Boyle’s Head, and LOCKYER DAVIS at Lord Bacon’s Head,
both in Fleet-street, and JOHN WARD opposite the Royal
Exchange, London, 1747.
8vo. Cardboard binding, the front of which is almost
detached. One folding map with some tears. Otherwise
good condition. $400.
This is the London edition of a book first appearing in
1724 and published in New York.
Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776) was a man on a mission
to explain the history of the Iroquois and as much about
them and their alliance to the British that he thought the
public could consume.
The map had value in terms of identifying the settlement
of the five nations, or six, as Colden refers to the movement of the Tuscaroras from North Carolina to join the
other nations of the confederacy .
The territory of the map extends from Lake Michigan to
Long Island with particular reference to the river system
and series of portages required to navigate the distance.
(see map #118 above)
The elementary drawing of the map merely highlights
the region of the finger lakes—the domain of the Iroquois
which Colden attempted to illuminate. ref: Schwartz and
Ehrenberg.
245. PALAIRET, JEAN
A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGISH and
FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN North-America, For the better
explaining of the MAP published with that Title. BY J.
PALAIRET, Agent of their High Mightinesses the States
General of the United Provinces, &c. The SECOND EDITION
Louis Armand, Baron de Lahontan wrote an
enormously popular travelogue on the New
World. This is the 1728 edition printed in
French in Amsterdam.
Lahontan was responsible for many fictions,
particularly the “River Longe” extending west
of the Mississippi.
Of the nine maps, seven are of the New World
including maps #84 and #85 above.
244. COLDEN, CADWALLADER
THE HISTORY OF THE FIVE Indian NATIONS
OF ANADA, WHICH ARE The BARRIER
between the ENGLISH and the FRENCH in that
Part of the World..., By the Honourable CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esq; One of his Majesty’s
98
Item #245 - PALAIRET, A Concise Description of the
English and French Possessions..., 1755
improved. LONDON: Printed by J. HABERKORN, in
Gerrard-Street, Soho: And Sold by Mess. NOURSE, VAILLANT, MILLAR, ROQUE, in the Strand; OWEN, near
Temple-Bar; SAYER, in Fleet-Street; WARD, on Cornhill;
DUNOYER, in the Hay-Market; JACKSON and JOLLIFFE, in
St. James-Street; DAVIS, in Piccadilly; CHASTELL, in
Compton-Street, Soho; CHAPELLE, in Grosvenor-Street; MILLAN, at Charing Cross, &c. and Mr. ROQUE, in DUBLIN.
MDCCLV. London, 1755.
4to. Inkstains on last page. Cover missing. Includes
modern, two-part, nesting case.
Good condition.
Includes pocket map, “CARTE DES POSSESSIONS
ANGLOISES & FRANÇOISES DU CONTINENT DE
L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE 1755.”, original color,
cut and mounted on folding linen, excellent condition, 16
3/4” x 23”, folds to 6” x 4 1/2”, and marbleized cardboard
carrying case with original printed label. $7,500.
Here is an unrecorded first state of a map which accompanies a second edition of a pamphlet. Jean Palairet (16971774) was an English cartographer born in France. Many
of his publications served an instructional purpose.
The map and pamphlet were published simultaneously
in English and French. The pamphlet here sets forth the
leading facts of North America on the eve of the French
and Indian war in 69 pages.
The map shows British and French claims to territory,
cities and towns, forts, roads, and Indian territory. The
map was also reproduced in Palairet’s Atlas Methodique
also published in 1755, Thomas Streeter believed his copy
of map and pamphlet to be unique. ref: Sellers and Van Ee,
map 56; Streeter Sale, item #850.
246. PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER
DE CHARLEVOIX, P.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO
NORTH-AMERICA. Undertaken by
ORDER of the FRENCH KING.
CONTAINING The GEOGRAPHICAL Description and Natural History
of that Country, particularly CANADA. TOGETHER WITH An Account
of the CUSTOMS, CHARACTERS,
RELIGION, MANNERS and TRADITIONS of the original Inhabitants. In a
Series of Letters to the Duchess of LESDIGUIERES. Translated from the
French of P. DE CHARLEVOIX. IN
TWO VOLUMES.
LONDON:
Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY, in
Pall-Mall. MDCCLXI. London,
1761.
8vo. Cardboard cover. Two volumes. Volume one contains one
folding map. Excellent condition.
$1,500.
This is the first edition in English of the travels of
Charlevoix by canoe up the St. Lawrence, into the Great
Lakes and down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
It
contains
much
important information
about Indian tribes and
settlements, missions,
and trading posts
along the way.
Charlevoix had been
charged by the regent,
Philippe,
Duc
d’Orleans, to investigate the existence of a
western
sea
and
Northwest passage.
Charlevoix had served
as a Jesuit missionary
to New France from
1705 to 1709 -- the origin for the assignment.
This work provides a
detailed review of his
Item #246 - CHARLEVOIX, 1761
observations during
the course of that journey and yields “one of the most valuable, if not the most
valuable, early accounts of Louisiana [territory]”.
The printing history of this book indicates a strong public response because the original French edition had
appeared in 1744 and this English translation was followed by another London edition of 1763 and a Dublin
translation in 1766. ref: Sabin 12139; Howes C-308; Winsor
V, p.63.
Item #247 - SCOTT, The United States Gazetteer..., 1795
247. SCOTT, JOSEPH
THE United States GAZETTEER: Containing an Authentic
description of the Several States. Their Situation, Extent,
Boundaries, Soil, Produce, Climate, Population, Trade and
Manufactures, Together with the EXTENT, BOUNDARIES
99
AND POPULATION of their Respective
Counties. Also, an Exact account of the
Cities, Towns, Harbours, Rivers, Bays,
Lakes, Mountains, &c. Illustrated with
Nineteen Maps. BY JOSEPH SCOTT.
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY F. and R.
Bailey, AT YORICK’S-HEAD, No. 116,
HIGH STREET, 1795. (Published according to ACT of Congress), Philadelphia,
1795.
8vo. Cardboard binding. Nineteen
folding maps. Includes modern, twopart, nesting case. Excellent condition.
$5,500.
This is the first geographical encyclopedia of American towns, rivers, and
Item #248 - DARBY, A Tour from the City of New-York..., 1819
anything of geographical importance
worth noting. It is an opinionated referCity of Detroit, and visited in the latter range Dunkirk, Erie,
ence. But given the scope and the prodigious industry of
Cleveland, Sandusky, and other places of less note..., THE
the author in writing and assembly, it should be expected
TOUR IS ACCOMPANIED WITH A MAP UPON WHICH
that the content would be somewhat arbitrary and
THE ROUTE WILL BE DESIGNATED; A PARTICULAR
uneven.
MAP OF THE FALLS AND RIVER OF NIAGARA, AND
Scott himself drew and engraved the 19 maps. Of parTHE ENVIRONS OF THE CITY OF DETROIT. BY
ticular interest to the Great Lakes is the map of the Old
WILLIAM DARBY, MEMBER OF THE NEW-YORK HISNorthwest, titled, N. W. Territory. The fictitious Bellin
TORICAL SOCIETY. Author of a Map and Statistical
islands appear in Lake Superior. And the southern end of
Account of Louisiana; and Emigrant’s Guide. NEW-YORK:
Lake Michigan is almost a full degree further north than
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY KIRK & MERCEIN,
the southern shore of Lake Erie, a measurement mistaken
And sold by Kirk & Mercein, A. T. Goodrich & Co. James
on the Mitchell map, which resulted in the controversy
Eastburn & Co. W. B. Gilley, Charles Wiley & Co. R.
over whether to place Toledo in Ohio or Michigan.
M’Dermut, William Hooker, and Collins & Co. New-York, and
Descriptions are also included of Detroit and the Detroit
by some others of the principal Booksellers in the United States.
River. ref: Sabin 78331; Ristow, American Maps, p.154; Wheat
1819. PRINTED BY E. WORTHINGTON, BROOKLYN.
and Brun
New York, 1819.
8vo. Cardboard cover, detached. Pages age-toned.
248. DARBY, WILLIAM
Unevenly cut pages resulting in fragility. Spine missing;
A TOUR FROM THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, TO DETROIT,
original printed label attached directly to back of signaIN THE MICHIGAN TERRITORY, MADE BETWEEN THE
tures. Fair condition. Protected by clear plastic cover and
2d OF MAY AND THE 22d OF SEPTEMBER, 1818. The
modern linen case. $500.
Tour extends from New-York, by Albany, Schenectady, and
Utica, to Sacket’s Harbor, and thence through lake Ontario, to
249. HALL, FRANCIS
St. Lawrence river, and down that stream to Hamilton village.
TRAVELS IN CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES, IN
Thence along both banks of the St. Lawrence, from Hamilton to
1816 AND 1817. BY
the Thousand Islands;
LIEUT.
FRANCIS
thence to Sacket’s Harbor
HALL, 14TH LIGHT
by water; from that place
DRAGOONS,
H.P.
by the route of great
SECOND EDITION.
Sodus,
Geneva,
LONDON: Printed by
Canandaigua,
and
Strahan
and
Batavia, to Buffalo; and
Spottiswoode,
Printersfrom thence to Black Rock,
Street; FOR LONGFort Erie, the Falls of
MAN, HURST, REES,
Niagara, Queenstown,
ORME, AND BROWN,
Lewiston, and the memoPATERNOSTER-ROW.
rable fields of Bridgewater
1819. London, 1819.
and Chippewa.
After
8vo. Marbled cardviewing the interesting
board covers with
pass of Niagara, the
leather-bound spine.
author traversed the south
Item #249 - HALL, Travels in Canada..., 1819
One folding map.
shore of Lake Erie to the
Excellent. $150.
100
250.
MORSE, JEDIDIAH / MORSE, SIDNEY
EDWARDS
A NEW SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY ANCIENT AND
MODERN, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS, ACCOMPANIED WITH AN ATLAS, ADAPTED TO THE WORK. BY
JEDIDIAH MORSE, D.D. AND SIDNEY EDWARDS
MORSE, A.M. TWENTY-THIRD EDITION. BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY RICHARDSON & LORD, 75 CORNHILL.
J. H. A. Frost, Printer, Congress-Street. 1822. Boston, 1822.
8vo. Hide cover stitched over calf binding.[?] Pages age
toned. Significant portion of p. 71/72 missing.
Otherwise good condition. $150.
251. BLAIR, DAVID
THE UNIVERSAL PRECEPTOR: BEING A
GENERAL GRAMMAR OF ARTS, SCIENCES,
AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. BY THE REV.
DAVID BLAIR; Author of the Class-Book, English
Grammar, Models of Juvenile Letters, Reading
Exercises, and Gammar [sic] of Natural and
Experimental Philosophy. FROM THE THIRTEENTH ENGLISH EDITION, REVISED AND
IMPROVED. Greenfield, Mass. PUBLISHED
AND SOLD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY A.
PHELPS. Phelps & Ingersoll, Printers. 1831.
Greenfield, Mass., 1831.
12mo. Cardboard covers, leather-bound spine, original
printed label. One map, one figure. Excellent condition.
$150.
This schoolbook was printed in Massachusetts in 1831. It
derives from a broad interpretation of grammer to deal
with natural history and language.
It contains a world map in two hemispheres.
Item #252 - LYON, Letter of Lucius Lyon..., 1834
252. LYON, LUCIUS
LETTER OF LUCIUS LYON, TO THE HONORABLE
LEWIS WILLIAMS, Chairman of the Committee on Territories,
RESPECTING THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO
AND MICHIGAN; ALSO, THE REPORT OF SAID COMMITTEE ON THE SUBJECT OF ADMITTING MICHIGAN
INTO THE UNION. WASHINGTON: PRINTED BY
GALES & SEATON. 1834. Washington, D.C., 1834.
4to. Marbleized cardboard binding, detached. Spine
missing. One folding map. Modern writing on inside
front cover. Good condition. $700.
253. PERKINS, SAMUEL
THE WORLD AS IT IS: CONTAINING A VIEW OF THE
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE PRINCIPAL NATIONS,
AS TO THEIR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT,— MILITARY
AND NAVAL STRENGTH,— REVE-NUES,— BANKING
INSTITUTIONS,— PRISON DISCIPLINE,— COM-
Item #253 - PERKINS, The World As It Is..., 1836
MERCE,— RELIGION,— MORALS,— EDUCATION, &c.
&c, WITH ANECDOTES OF DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS, AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. BY SAMUEL
PERKINS. T. BELKNAP. 1836.
12mo. Calf binding. One folding map. Excellent condition. $150.
A traditional small encyclopedia and geography of the
world. It includes many topics beyond the
descriptive range of terrestrial geography,
such as banking and morals, but that
approach is quite appropriate to an age of
pre-specialization.
The book contains one world map in two
hemispheres.
254.
WARREN, D. M. / VON STEINWEHR, A.
AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, TO WHICH IS ADDED
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICAL
PHENOMENA OF THE UNITED STATES.
BY D. M. WARREN. REVISED BY A. VON
STEINWEHR.
PHILADELPHIA: COWPERTHWAIT & CO., Philadelphia, [1886].
4to. Cardboard cover, partly detached, with
original printed label. Fourteen maps, 104 illustrations.
Good condition. $250.
This is a late 19th-century geography text with 14 lithographed maps obviously for instructional purposes. The
Philadelphia firm of Cowperthwait had been publishing
Warren’s Common School Geography since 1872 and
obviously this book on physical geography was closely
related.
101
255. HARPER & BROTHERS
Harper’s School Geography with Maps and Illustrations.
Prepared expressly for this work by Eminent American Artists.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. New York, 1887.
12” x 10”. Cover stamped “New England Edition”. Loose
cover and two torn pages. $50.
A school geography with margin and end leaf drawings.
257. MICHIGAN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL
SURVEY
Publication 22. Geological Series 18. BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE DIRECTOR AND REPORT ON RETRACEMENT
AND PERMANENT MONUMENTING OF THE MICHIGAN-OHIO BOUNDARY. PUBLISHED AS A PART OF
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SURVEY FOR 1916. LANSING,
MICHIGAN WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD
CO., STATE PRINTERS 1916, Lansing, Mich., 1916.
8vo. Cardboard cover. Two folding maps and fifteen
plates. Excellent condition. $150.
256. SWAN, LANSING B.
JOURNAL OF A Trip to Michigan In 1841. Rochester, 1904.
16mo. Cardboard binding. Original printed label.
Excellent condition. $100.
I N D E X
102
O F
M A P S
AUTHOR
TITLE/DATE
ITEM #
ALBRIZZI
ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM
ANDREWS, THOMAS C. / THOMAS
ARROWSMITH, AARON
BALDWIN & CRADOCK
BAREND, IAN ELWE / JAILLOT
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BELLIN, JACQUES
BERRY, WILLIAM/SANSON, N.
BLAEU, WILLEM
BLAEU, WILLEM
BLOME, RICHARD/SANSON, N.
BOISSEAU, JEAN
BONNE, RIGOBERT
BOWEN & CO., LTD
BOYNTON, GEORGE W. / BROADERS, E. R.
BRADLEY, ABRAHAM
BRESSANI, FRANCESCO
BRIGGS, HENRY
BRION DE LA TOUR, LOUIS
BRION DE LA TOUR, LOUIS
BROADERS, EDWARD R.
BUACHE, PHILIPPE
BURR, DAVID
BURR, DAVID H.
CALCOGRAFIA CAMERALE / MITCHELL, J.
CAREY & LEA
CARY, JOHN
CARY, JOHN
CARY, JOHN
CENTER / ROSE / BERRIEN
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL
CHATELAIN, HENRY ABRAHAM
CHATELAIN, HENRY ABRAHAM
COLDEN, CADWALLADER
COLOM, JACOB AERTSZ.
COLTON, G.W. & C.B.
COLTON, G.W. & C.B.
COLTON, G.W. & C.B. / J.H. COLTON & CO.
Carta Geografica Del Canada..., Venice, 1742.
[New Englande], [London], 1624.
A Map Of The North Western Territory, Boston, [1796].
A Map Of The United States Of North America..., London, 1799.
North America Sheet V..., [London], 1833.
Amerique Septentrionale..., Amsterdam, 1792.
Carte Des Lacs Du Canada..., [Paris], 1742.
Carte Des Lacs Du Canada..., [Paris], 1744.
Partie Orientale De La Nouvelle France..., Paris, 1745.
Partie Occidentale De La Nouvelle France..., Paris, 1745.
Carte De L’amerique Septentrionale, Paris, 1755.
Partie Occidentale De La Nouvelle France Ou Canada..., [Paris], 1755.
Carte Des Lacs Du Canada, Paris, 1757.
La Riviere Du Détroit Depuis Le Lac Saint Claire..., [Paris, 1764].
Carte Des Cinq Grands Lacs Du Canada, [Paris, 1764].
North America Divided..., London, 1680.
Americæ Nova Tabula..., [Amsterdam], 1635.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis..., [Amsterdam], 1640.
A New Mapp Of America..., London, 1669/1682.
Description De La Novvelle France ..., [Paris, 1670].
Partie Occidentale Du Canada..., [Geneva, 1780].
Sketch Of The Public Surveys In Michigan, Philadelphia, 1866.
Michigan And The Great Lakes, [Boston], 1835.
Map Of The United States, Exhibiting The Post-Roads..., 1796/1804
Nouæ Franciæ Accurata Delineatio 1657, [Macerata?], 1657.
The North Part Of America..., London, [1625].
Carte Du Théatre De La Guerre..., Paris, 1778.
Carte Du Canada Et Des Contrées Limitrophes..., Paris, 1784.
Michigan And The Great Lakes, [Boston, 1835].
Carte Générale Des Decouvertes..., Paris, 1752.
Michigan..., New York, 1836.
Map Of Michigan & Part Of Wisconsin..., Washington, D.C., 1839.
Gli Stati Uniti Dell’america..., Rome, 1797.
Geographical, Statistical, And Historical Map..., [Philadelphia], 1822.
A New Map Of Part Of The United States..., London, 1805.
A New Map Of Upper & Lower Canada..., London, 1807.
A New Map Of Upper & Lower Canada..., London, 1811.
Survey Of Havre Bay, Michigan..., [Washington], 1836.
Carte Geographiqve De La Novvelle Franse..., [Paris], 1612.
Carte De La Nouuelle France..., [Paris], 1632.
Carte De La Nouvelle France..., [Amsterdam], 1719.
Carte Particuliere Du Fleuve Saint Louis..., [Amsterdam], 1720.
A Map Of The Country Of The Five Nations..., [London], 1747.
Pas Caerte Von Terra Nova..., Amsterdam, [1663].
Colton’s Map Of The Western States..., New York, 1866.
Colton’s Michigan, New York, 1867.
Colton’s Lake Superior..., New York, 1855.
112.
25.
160.
164.
189.
157.
111.
113.
114.
115.
125.
132.
136.
139.
140.
52.
29
30.
40.
44.
154.
224.
191.
162.
36.
26.
150.
155.
192.
123.
195.
197.
163.
177.
169.
170.
172.
196.
22.
29.
101.
105.
118.
42.
223.
225.
210.
AUTHOR
TITLE/DATE
ITEM #
CORONELLI / NOLIN
CORONELLI / NOLIN / TILLEMON
CORONELLI / NOLIN / TILLEMON
CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
CORONELLI, VICENZO MARIA
CRAM, GEORGE F.
D’ANVILLE, J.B. / SANTINI
D’ANVILLE, J.B./SANTINI
D’ANVILLE, J. B.
DABLON, CLAUDE / ALLOUZ
DE FER, NICOLAS
DE FER, NICOLAS
DE FER, NICOLAS
DE FER, NICOLAS
DE FER, NICOLAS / OTTENS
DE FER, NICOLAS / VAN LOON, H.
DE JODE, CORNELIS
DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME
DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME
DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME
DE L’ISLE, GUILLAUME & CLAUDE
DE LAET, JOANNES
DE WINTER, ANTONY/SANSON, N.
DE WIT, FREDERICK
DELAMARCHE / BOUDET / D’ANVILLE
DESHAYES
DESILVER, CHARLES / HAZZARD, J.J.
DU CREUX, FRANÇOIS
DU VAL, PIERRE
DU VAL, PIERRE
DU VAL, PIERRE
ENSIGN, BRIDGMAN & FANNING
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, SILAS / FARMER, JOHN
FARMER, SILAS / SKINNER, E. C.
FIELDING, LUCAS
FINLEY, ANTHONY
GENTLEMEN’S MAGAZINE
GREELEY, AARON
GREENLEAF, JEREMIAH / BURR, DAVID
GREENLEAF, JEREMIAH / BURR, DAVID
GRYNAEUS, SIMON
HENNEPIN / VAN DER AA
HENNEPIN, LOUIS
HENNEPIN, LOUIS
HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST
HONDIUS / DE WIT
HONDIUS, JODOCUS
HUTCHINS, THOMAS
JAILLOT, HUBERT / SANSON, NICOLAS
JANSSON, JAN
JANSSON, JAN
JEFFERYS, THOMAS
JOHNSON & WARD
KALM, PETER
KEUR, HENDRIK & JAKOB
LA FRANCE, JOSEPH
LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND
LATTRÉ, JEAN
Partie Orientale Du Canada..., Paris, 1689.
Partie Occidentale Du Canada Ou De La Nouvelle France..., [1755].
Partie Occidentale Du Canada..., Paris, 1688.
[Half Globe Gore Of Mid-North America], [Venice], 1688.
Lovisiana Parte Settent..., [Venice, 1696].
America Settentrionale..., [Venice], 1696.
La Lovisiana, Parte Settentrionalle..., [Venice], 1696.
New Sectional Map Of Michigan, Chicago, 1885.
Partie Orientale Du Canada..., Venice, 1776.
Partie Occidentale Du Canada..., Venice, 1775.
Amérique Septentrionale..., Paris, 1746.
Lac Svperievr..., [Paris], 1672.
Le Canada, Ou Nouvelle France..., Paris, 1705.
Carte De La Mer Du Sud..., Paris, 1713.
La France Occidentale Dans L’amerique..., Paris, 1718.
Carte De La Nouvelle France..., [Paris], 1719.
Carte De La Nouvelle France..., [Amsterdam], 1719.
Quebec, Ville De L’amerique Septentrionale..., Paris, 1705/1716
Americæ Pars Bo:Realis..., Antwerp, 1593.
L’amerique Septentrionale...,, Paris, 1700.
Carte Du Canada Ou De La Nouvelle France..., Paris, 1718.
Carte De La Louisiane Et Du Cours Du Mississipi..., Paris, 1718.
Carte Du Canada Ou De La Nouvelle France..., 1703, Paris.
Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm Et Virginia, [Leiden], 1630.
Canada Of Niew Vrankryk..., [Amsterdam], 1683.
Nova Totivs Americæ Descriptio..., [Amsterdam], 1660.
Etats-Unis De L’amérique Septentrionale..., Paris, 1785.
[Pelez De Canada De St Laurens], Paris, 1695.
A New Map Of Michigan By J.J. Hazzard..., Philadelphia, 1856.
Tabvla Novæ Franciæ Anno 1660, [Paris], 1660.
Le Canada Faict Par Le Sr De Champlain..., Paris, 1653.
Le Canada Faict Par Le Sr De Champlain..., Paris, 1664.
Le Canada Faict Par Le Sr De Champlain..., Paris, 1677.
Map Of The Western States, New York, 1848/1856.
An Improved Map Of... The Territory Of Michigan..., [Detroit], 1829.
Map Of The Territories Of Michigan And Ouisconsin, Detroit, 1831.
Map Of The City Of Detroit..., New York, 1835.
An Improved Edition Of A Map..., [Detroit], 1836.
Map Of The State Of Michigan..., Detroit, 1844.
Improved Map Of The Territories Of Michigan..., Detroit, 1836.
Plat Of The City Of Detroit..., [Washington, 1860].
Detroit 1812. Copy Of Sketch By Wm. Evans, [Detroit, 1880].
Detroit 1796/Plan Of Detroit 1807..., [Detroit, 1880].
Farmer’s Rail Road & Township Map Of Michigan..., Detroit, 1868.
Map Of Lots On Jefferson Avenue..., Detroit, 1876.
Michigan Ter., Baltimore, 1823.
Canada. Philadelphia, 1826/[1833].
A Plan Of The Straits Of St Mary..., [London], 1751.
Plan Of Private Claims In Michigan..., [Washington], 1810/1847.
Michigan, [Boston], 1840.
Michigan, [Boston, 1842].
Typvs Cosmographicvs Vniversalis, [Basle], 1532
CARTE D’un Tres Grand PAIS..., Leiden, 1704.
Carte D’un Tres Grand Pais..., Utrecht, 1697.
Amerique Septentrionalis..., Utrecht, 1698.
Regni Mexicani..., Nuremberg, [1750].
Poli Arctici..., Amsterdam, 1670, [1692].
America, Amsterdam, 1619.
Carte Du Cours De L’ohio & Du Muskingum..., [Amsterdam], 1767.
L’amerique Septentrionale Divisée..., Paris, 1674/92.
America Septentrionalis, Amsterdam, 1640.
Nova Belgica Et Anglia Nova, Amsterdam, 1647.
An Exact Chart Of The River St Laurence..., London, 1775
Johnson’s Michigan And Wisconsin, [New York], 1863.
Nieuwe En Nauwkeurige Kaart..., Utrecht, 1772.
Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata..., Dordrecht, 1682.
A New Map Of Part Of North America..., [London], 1744.
Carte Que Les Gnacsitares..., [The Hague], 1703.
Lake Of Hurons, [The Hague], 1703.
Lac Des Hurons, [The Hague], 1707.
Carte Des Etats-Unis De L’amerique..., Paris, 1784.
60.
131.
59.
54.
68.
69.
70.
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AUTHOR
TITLE/DATE
ITEM #
LAURIE & WHITTLE
LE ROUGE, GEORGES / MITCHELL, JOHN
LODGE, JOHN / RUSSELL, WILLIAM
LODGE, JOHN / RUSSELL, WILLIAM
LONDON MAGAZINE
MALLET, ALAIN MANESSON
MARIETTE, P./SANSON, G./SANSON, N.
MELISH, JOHN
MENZIES, J. & G.
MERCATOR, GERHARDUS
MERCATOR, MICHAEL
MICHAULT, R.
MICHIGAN STATE HIGHWAY COMM.
MITCHELL, JOHN
MITCHELL, JOHN
MITCHELL, JOHN / ANON
MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS / GAMBLE, W.H.
MOLL, HERMAN
MOLL, HERMAN
MOLL, HERMAN
MORDEN, ROBERT
MORDEN, ROBERT
MORDEN, ROBERT
MORSE, JEDIDIAH
MORTIER, PIERRE
MORTIER, PIERRE
MOUNT & PAGE
MÜLLER / REY
MULLETT, JOHN
MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN
NOLIN, JEAN BAPTISTE
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM
OTTENS, R. & J.
OTTENS, R. & J. / JAILLOT / SANSON
PALAIRET, JOHN
PETRI, GIROLAMO
PITT, MOSES
POPPLE, HENRY
POPPLE, HENRY
POPPLE, HENRY
POPPLE, HENRY / COVENS & MORTIER
PORCACCHI TOMMASO
PORTER, PETER B. / BARCLAY, ANTHONY
PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS
RADEFELD, CARL CHRISTIAN FRANZ
RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
RHODE, JOHANN CHRISTOPH
RISDON, O.
ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, GILLES
ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, GILLES
ROGGEVEEN, ARENT
RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO
RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO
RUYSCH, JOHANNES
SANSON, GUILLAUME / SANSON, N.
SANSON, NICOLAS
SANSON, NICOLAS/MARIETTE, PIERRE
SAUTHIER, CLAUDE JOSEPH
SCHENK, PIETER
SCHENK, PIETER/VISSCHER, NICOLAAS
SCHERER, HEINRICH
SCHERER, HEINRICH
SCHERER, HEINRICH
SCHERER, HEINRICH
SCHERER, HEINRICH
SCOTT
SENEX, JOHN
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[A Map Of The British Empire In America...,], [London, 1733].
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Mondo Nvovo, [Venice], 1572, [1590].
Letter From The Secretary Of State..., Washington, D.C., 1828.
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La Nvova Francia, [Venice], 1556.
La Terra De Hochelaga Nella Nova Francia, [Venice], 1556.
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Le Canada Ou Nouvelle France..., Paris, 1656.
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America Septentrionalis. / America Meridionalis..., Amsterdam, 1695.
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America Borealis. 1699, [Munich], 1699.
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Idea Natvralis Americæ Borealis..., [Munich], 1700.
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N. W. Territory, [Philadelphia], 1796.
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166.
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41.
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33.
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151.
67.
80.
73.
74.
75.
77.
82.
161.
102.
AUTHOR
TITLE/DATE
ITEM #
SENEX, JOHN
SESSA
SEUTTER, GEORGE MATTHÄUS
SMITH, JOHN CALVIN / COLTON, J.H.
STEELE, O. G.
SYLVANUS, BERNARDUS
TALLIS, J. & F. / RAPKIN, J.
TALLIS, J. & F. / RAPKIN, J.
TARDIEU, PIERRE FRANÇOIS
THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO.
THOMSON, JOHN
THOMSON, JOHN
TIRION, ISAAK
VAN DER AA, PIETER
VAN DER AA, PIETER
VAN KEULEN, GERARD
VAN KEULEN, GERARD
VAN KEULEN, JOHANNES
VAN LOON, JAN
VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPPE
VISSCHER, NICOLAAS
VISSCHER, NICOLAAS
VON REILLY / D’ANVILLE
WALDSEEMÜLLER, MARTIN
WALKER, SAMUEL
WALKER, SAMUEL
WATSON, GAYLORD
WELLS, EDWARD
WILLIAMSON
WYLD, JAMES
WYLD, JAMES
WYTFLIET, CORNELIS
WYTFLIET, CORNELIS
ZATTA, ANTONIO / MITCHELL, JOHN
ZIEGLER, JACOB
ANON.
ANON.
ANON.
ANON.
ANON.
A Map Of Louisiana And Of The River Mississipi..., [London], 1721.
America, [Venice], 1599.
Accurata Delineatio Celeberrimæ..., [Augsburg], 1730.
Guide Through Ohio..., New York, 1844.
A New & Correct Map Of Michigan..., Buffalo, 1834.
Untitled World Map, [Venice], 1511.
East Canada, And New Brunswick, [London, 1851].
West Canada, [London, 1851]
United States Of Nth America..., Paris, 1812.
A New Map Of Michigan With The Canals..., Philadelphia, 1850.
Northern Provinces Of The United States, Edinburgh, 1817.
Canada And Nova Scotia, Edinburgh, 1819.
Kaart Van Het Westelyk..., [Amsterdam, 1760].
Canada Ou Nouvelle France..., Leiden, 1714.
Land En Volk-Ontdekking..., Leiden, [1707].
Carte De La Nouvelle France..., Amsterdam, 1720.
Nouvelle Carte De La Riviere De Canada..., Amsterdam, 1751.
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Karte Von Amerika..., Vienna, 1795.
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A Map Of The Province Of Upper Canada..., London, 1846.
Nova Francia Et Canada 1597, [Leuven], 1597.
Conibas Regio Cvm Vicinis Gentibvs, [Leuven], 1597.
Il Paese De’ Selvaggi..., [Venice], 1778.
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The Points Where Private Claims Conflict..., [Washington, 1860].
Plan Of Detroit... Bowen & Co. Lith. Phila., [Washington, 1860].
Plan Of The Mily Reservation At Detroit... [Washington, 1860].
Plan Of The City Of Detroit..., 1894.
[Powderhorn Map Of New York Forts], [New York], 1760.
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120.
121.
51.
180.
181.
182.
184.
61.
62.
159.
4.
204.
205.
230.
78.
126.
187.
203.
18.
19.
147
5.
214.
215.
216.
229.
137.
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