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FORLANI, Descrittione. Di. Tvtto. Il. Perv, c.1562 [see item #17]

FINE ANTIQUE MAPS, ATLASES, GLOBES AND VOYAGE BOOKS 59 EAST 54TH STREET, #62 • NEW YORK, NY 10022 (212) 751-8135 • (800) 453-0045 • FAX: (212) 832-5389 [email protected] • www.arkway.com EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

1482 ULM PTOLEMY MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN STUNNING FULL ORIGINAL COLOR

1. ULM PTOLEMY, [Untitled map of The British Isles], 1482. 15” x 22” [including text]. Beautiful full original color. Excellent con- dition. $35,000. Among the earliest obtainable printed maps are those appearing in the famous Ulm Ptolemy. These maps are particularly desirable when they survive in striking full original color. This ptolemaic map of the British Isles is a superb example. A complete Ulm Ptolemy atlas has sold for well over a million dollars. ref: Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps, pp. 135-137. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

THE LION OF BELGIUM

2. VAN DER KEERE, PIETER, Leo Belgicus, c.1617. 14 1/2” x 17 3/4”. Later hand color. Excellent condition. $24,000. A fine example of Pieter van der Keere’s renowned version of Michael Aitzinger’s concept of the Lion of Belgium. “Michael Aitzinger’s novel design was first printed in 1583 and was copied by many of the Low Countries’ engravers in various forms. Some ver- sions are fabulously ornate, others more plain, but this is one of the most decorative forms” -- Potter. ref: Potter, Antique Maps, p. 187; Van der Heijden, Leo Belgicus, #4.2. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

BOISSEAU’S MAP OF EUROPE WITH AN INSET OF CANADA

3. BOISSEAU, JEAN, Evrope Francoise Ov Description Generalle Des Empires, 1641. 16 3/4” x 22 3/4”. Uncolored. Trimmed close. Repairs with some loss to printed border. Otherwise very good condition. $9,500. Unrecorded Canadiana. A beautifully decorated map of Europe with an inset of Canada or Nouvelle France. The inset has been missed in the bibliographies of North America (not cited in Burden, Kershaw or Phillips), and the only reference we can find is a mention in Pastoreaux. The map was published in the Theatre des Gaules and pre- dates Boisseau’s famous 1643 map of Canada. Apparently designed to detail French influence in Europe, North Africa, and the New World, the map lists royalty throughout Europe which were decended from French ancestry, with the dates of their reigns. ref: Pastoureau, Boisseau II, pp. 69-70, #6. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

4. JANSSON, JAN, Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus... Heptarchia, c.1646. 16 1/4” x 20 3/4”. Full original color. Excellent condition. $4,800. This decorative map shows the British Isles at the time of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy; the seven ancient kingdoms of Kent, the South Saxons, West Saxons, East Saxons, Northumberland, East Anglia and Mercia. The historical map is embellished with border panels depicting the seven Kings in full battle dress & armor, and with scenes illustrating the conversion of each of the seven kingdoms to Christianity in wake of St. Augustine’s arrival in England in the year 597 AD. Jansson’s map of the Heptarchy, first published in 1646, is almost identical to the Blaeu published a year earlier, but can be distin- guished by the addition of radiating compass lines across the sea areas of the map. ref: Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, #577. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

GERMAN CITY PLAN OF PRAGUE IN ORIGINAL COLOR

5. SEUTTER, MATTHEUS, Praga celeberrima et maxima totius Bohemiae..., c.1680. 19 1/2” x 22 3/4”. Original color. Excellent condition. $2,800. Published in Augsberg, this stunning plan of Prague includes a view of the city at the bottom. An excellent example in fine original hand color. Seutter was a German cartographer and engraver who set- tled in Augsberg in 1707 after an apprenticeship to the great Johann Baptist Homann. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

FINE DECORATIVE MAP OF CORNWALL ENGLAND

6. HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE / MORTIER, Carte Maritime de L’Angleterre depuis les Sorlingues jusques a Portland..., 1693. 23” x 37 1/2”. Original hand color. Some light offsetting, otherwise excellent condition. $4,500. Romeyn de Hooghe was a famous Dutch artist employed by King William III of England. This sea chart of Cornwall is part of a small group of maps executed by him and published by Mortier. They are considered “the most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam.” The map is embellished with fine decorative cartouches, and a number of inset maps and views. ref: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, M.Mor.5, #8. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE

MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF THE BRIDGE ST. LOUIS IN PARIS

7. ANON, Plan General D’un Projet de Pont entre isles St. Louis et notre dame, c.1790. 16 3/4” x 26 1/4”. Original manuscript plan in ink and watercolor. Some spotting, but generally very good condition. $2,400. This is a fine manuscript plan of the bridge between the Isle St. Louis and the Isle de Cite on which Notre Dame is located. A bridge between the islands was first built in 1630 and was rebuilt numerous times over the next two centuries. This manuscript appears to be the plan for the bridge constructed c.1790. DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD

SEPARATELY PUBLISHED WORLD MAP BY ALLARD

8. ALLARD, CAREL, Novissima Totius Orbis Tabula, Per Carolum Allard., c.1683. 19 5/8” x 23 1/8”. Early hand color. Very good condition. $8,500. Although Carel Allard would not publish an atlas until 1696, his scarce, separately published world map was originally issued in Amsterdam sometime prior to 1683. The map uses the decorative bor- der scenes made popular by De Wit on his world map of c.1670. This is the second state of the map as defined by Shirley. ref: Shirley, The Mapping of The World, #517. DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD

SUPERB CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL SPHERES BY ROBYN

9. ROBYN, JACOB / DANCKERTS, CORNELIS, [pair] Nieuw Aerdsch Pleyn... Iacobus Robyn Cum Privilegio... [and] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel..., 1696/c.1700. Pair of celestial and terrestrial spheres measuring 23” x 20 1/2” each. Full original hand color. Full margins. Excellent condition. $39,000. Unusual with full margins. We have never seen an example of either the terrestrial or celestial map that has not been trimmed on the sides with loss of printed surface, as the maps had to be trimmed to fit into the atlas. The examples being offered here must have been sepa- rately published, and were issued by Cornelis Danckerts c.1700. DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD

The terrestrial map is a single-sheet version of Robyn and Doncker’s large four-sheet map of the world in a single circle. “It seems very likely that this single-sheet version by Jacob Robyn was also devised by Andreas van Luchtenburg whose participation is acknowledged on the companion celestial map. The new and distinc- tively drawn mythological scenes in the corners of the map were almost certainly engraved by Jacob Harrewyn who collaborated close- ly with both Robyn and Luchtenburg at this time” -- Shirley. The map is on the equidistant azimuthal projection centered on the north pole. The same projection was used by Nolin on his version of Cassini’s world map, published in 1696. Robyn has not updated the interior of North America, “where only one large Great Lake is indicated and Nieu Nederland is still marked rather than New York as it became in 1664” -- Shirley. ref: Shirley, The Mapping of The World, #582, plate 402. EARLY, RARE HALMA EDITION OF THE HALLEY CHART DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD

10. HALLEY, EDMUND / HALMA, HENDRIK, Carte Generale de Toutes les Costes du Monde..., c.1702. 21 3/4” x 57 1/4”. Full original hand color. An excellent example. $28,000. This is an excellent early example of Edmund Halley’s landmark chart of the world, which recorded the magnetic variations of the com- pass for the first time. The original English publication by Mount & Page was issued c.1702 and is now unobtainable. But two Dutch edi- tions also appeared around that same time - one by Pierre Mortier, and this extremely rare edition by Hendrik Halma. These three early edi- tions are the only versions of the map not to contain the addition of wind directions. Although Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers dates the Halma at 1700, this date is unlikely as it would then precede the original English edi- tion. More likely it appeared concurrent with the first Mortier edition c.1702. Koeman does not mention this rare Halma edition in his dis- cussion of the Halley chart, and it has not been recognized in a num- ber of other standard references to the chart and its derivatives. The sequence of these early editions is impossible to determine as none have a printed reference to publication date. This chart was the result of extensive research conducted aboard the Paramour from 1698-1700, where Edmund Halley collected the ear- liest systematic recordings of the magnetic variations of the compass. These findings are shown on his chart in the form of isogonal lines or isogones. These lines became the standard method for recording a host of additional kinds of scientific data on maps. Halley believed that magnetic variation would be the solution for determining longitude, and although this did not prove to be the case, his chart and the meth- ods he developed in creating it make this one of the most influential maps of its time. ref: Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers, revised edition, Volume II, p. 256; cf: Cumming, Exploration of North America, pp. 22-23; cf: The World Encompassed, #200; cf: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Volume III, p. 87, IVMor7(1), pp. 429-431.

DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD

RARE AND BEAUTIFUL DE LETH MAP

11. DE LETH, ANDRIES / DE LETH, HENDRIK, Carte Nouvelle De la Mer Du Sud..., c.1730. 23” x 36 1/2”. Full original hand color. An excellent example. $38,000. De Leth’s beautiful, separately issued map is centered on the Americas, but includes the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the European, African, and Asian coasts. The map is often compared to Chatelain’s somewhat larger map with a similar title, but De Leth’s map is far rarer and more desirable. Two finely executed views, set in elaborate frame borders, depict Niagara Falls and the Cape of Good Hope. Additional insets depict Mexico City, the Straits of Magellan, and the Straits of Gibraltar. Like the Chatelain, De Leth’s map is based on an extremely rare 1713 wall map by Nicolas de Fer. California is shown as an island, and Japan is in a simplified rectangular form. The mythical “Terre de Quir” appears in the south Pacific, joined to the Australian coastline. De Leth follows French models and the English colonies are confined to the Atlantic coast of North America. The Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast, and the Great Lakes are well formed. The Chatelain was always issued in black and white and usually appears on the market with modern color. By contrast, this example of De Leth’s map is in rich original hand color. ref: Leighly, California as an Island, #169; Tooley, Mapping of America, p.133.

DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD

19TH CENTURY JAPANESE COLOR WOODBLOCK PUBLISHED THE YEAR BEFORE PERRY’S VISIT

12. ANONYMOUS, Chikyu Bankoku Hozu... [Kaei, 1853], 1853. 31 1/4” x 50”. Original edition. Woodblock color print. Folding map, dissected and laid down on Japanese paper with original covers, cover title missing. Some minor staining and losses to folds, but a fine exam- ple. $5,500. This 1853 woodblock map is a wonderful example of the Japanese isolation which lasted well into the 19th century. In 1584 a Jesuit mis- sionary, Matteo Ricci, was working at the court of the Chinese Emperor. In order to ingratiate himself with the Emperor, Ricci con- structed a world map which he based on the Ortelius world map pub- lished in 1570 in Amsterdam. Ortelius had designed his map from the European viewpoint with the Atlantic Ocean at the center. Ricci, being a good politician, rearranged the Ortelius map with the Pacific Ocean in the middle, making China the center of the Universe. During the 17th century the Ricci map found its way to Japan where it became the standard for world maps until Perry arrived in 1854 and brought more current geographical information. ORTELIUS MAPS O F ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP TO DELINEATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASIA, JAPAN AND NORTHWEST AMERICA

13. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM, Tartariae Sive Magni Chami Regni Typus., c.1584. 13 3/4” x 18 1/2”. Full original color. Very good condition. $2,500. Ortelius’s Tartariae is the first map to delineate the relationship between Asia, Japan, and Northwest America. It depicts two of Japan’s three main islands in recognizable shapes. It is also among the first to use the name California to denote the Baja peninsula. “This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific. Its main feature is the STRETTO DI ANIAN. This increased the public awareness of the 1561 Giacomo Gastaldi theory of a strait between the continents of Asia and America” -- Burden. A true foundation map for both America and Asia. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #41. ORTELIUS MAPS O F ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP DEVOTED TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN

14. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM, Maris Pacifici, (quod volgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus..., c.1589. 13 1/2” x 20 1/2”. Later hand color. Excellent condition. $9,500. “One of the most important maps that appeared in the Ortelius atlases, this was the first printed map to be devoted to the Pacific Ocean, the discovery of which is remembered by the depiction, with legend, of Ferdinand Magellan’s ship The Victoria” -- Burden. Aside from Mercator’s map of 1538, it is the first printed map to separately name North and South America, and the use of these names continued regularly from this point. Ortelius’s map of the Pacific is also the first to introduce the Rio Grande, giving an entirely new shape to the head of the Gulf of California. Japan and the Philippines are more correct- ly mapped in relationship to mainland Asia. “One of the most striking and popular of the maps in Ortelius’s Theatrum” -- Goss. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #74; Goss, The Mapping of North America, #14; Wagner, #156, pp. 73, 99 & 111. ORTELIUS MAPS O F ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

THE ORTELIUS/TEIXEIRA MAP OF JAPAN

15. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM / TEIXEIRA, LUIS, Iaponia Insulae Descriptio, 1595. 14” x 19”. Beautiful full original color. Excellent condition. $5,500. Latin text edition. “A new epoch in Western cartography of Japan begins with the inclusion of this map in the Theatrum. Ortelius had received it along with a map of China in a letter of 20 February 1592 from Portuguese Jesuit and mathematician Luis Teixeira, who was the cartographer to the court of the Spanish king” – Walter. The founda- tion map in the cartography of Japan, Ortelius’s Iaponiae formed the model for most European maps of the archipelago for the next forty years. It was a vast improvement over Ortelius’s earlier delineations of Japan on his general maps of Asia, South East Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and Tartary. ref: Cortazzi, Isles of Gold, pp. 24-25, pl. 25; Walter, Japan: A Cartographic Vision, IV.1, #19, p. 188; Van den Broecke, #165, state 1; Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps, p. 229. THE FOUR CONTINENTS B Y ORTELIUS

MATCHED SET OF ASIA, AFRICA, EUROPE & AMERICA MAPS BY ORTELIUS IN FULL ORIGINAL HAND COLOR

16. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM, [set of four maps] Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio [and] Europae [and] Asiae Nova Descriptio [and] Africae Tabula Nova, c.1587. [pictured on following pages] Four maps, approximately 14” x 19” each. Full original color. Excellent condition. No text on verso. $29,000 the set. Appearing in the famous Theatrum, these four maps of the conti- nents are magnificent representations of Ortelius’s mastery over both the artisitc and scientific aspects of cartography. The publication of the Ortelius atlas in 1570 “marked an epoch in the history of cartography. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge since the days of Ptolemy” -- Tooley. The importance of Ortelius’s Theatrum on the history of cartography is impossible to overemphasize. Shirley remarks “through its launching, pre-eminence in map publishing was transferred from Italy to the Netherlands leading to over a hundred years of Dutch supremacy in all facets of cartographical production.” The format of the Theatrum was revolutionary, but so was the con- tent. One of Ortelius’s most important assets as a mapmaker was his ability to tap the best first-hand sources of his day. He had connections in all the major European capitals, but most remarkable was his abili- ty to draw on Spanish and Portuguese sources, since both nations attempted to keep their geographical information secret. Of particular significance is the map of the Western Hemisphere, which is one of the most important and influential maps of the New World ever published. Its appearance coincided with the beginning of European settlement and colonization. At this critical historical junc- ture, it was Ortelius's map that was most responsible for providing Europeans with their best cartographic guide to the Americas. ref: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 22; Tooley, Maps and Mapmakers, p. 29; Burden, The Mapping of North America, #64. THE FOUR CONTINENTS B Y ORTELIUS THE FOUR CONTINENTS B Y ORTELIUS THE FORLANI MAP O F SOUTH AMERICA

LANDMARK MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA WITH CARTOGRAPHY LINKED TO GASTALDI’S LEGENDARY “LOST” WORLD MAP

17. FORLANI, PAOLO, Al Molto Mag.co Sig.or Gio. Pietro Contarini del Cl.mo Sor.or Bernardo Sig.or et patron mio sempre oss.mo... La. Descrittione. Di. Tvtto. Il. Perv., c.1562. 20” x 14”. Uncolored. A strong impression. Top margin trimmed close, with no loss of printed surface. An excellent example. $65,000. THE FORLANI MAP O F SOUTH AMERICA

Paolo Forlani’s Descrittione. Di. Tvtto. Il. Perv is the first large-scale depiction of South America to appear in print, and the only separate map of the continent ever made by a member of the famous Lafreri School of Italian cartographers. At first, Forlani’s South America appears to be a completely new vision of the continent, and we can find no discussion about its source. Comparisons with maps printed in the Netherlands reveal widely dif- fering delineations of both the shape of the continent and the vast Amazon River, ruling out a connection with sources known to Ortelius and Mercator. Nor does the map appear to be from Spanish sources, as Forlani’s depiction of the Amazon differs greatly from a map com- piled by Diego Gutierrez. Further comparisons reveal a striking similarity to the South America on Giacomo Gastaldi’s legendary “lost” world map on nine sheets, a map known only in literature until a single example was dis- covered in 1939. The confidently drawn coastlines are almost identi- cal, as is the huge gash of the Amazon River. Some spellings of place- names differ but their locations are the same, and both maps mark cities with tiny vignettes. In fact, the most apparent difference between the two maps has to do with the placement of trees -- the Gastaldi con- tains trees in some of the less mountainous regions, while the Forlani leaves those areas blank. The sequence of publication of the two maps is uncertain, but watermark evidence studied by David Woodward presents the very real possibility that Forlani’s South America preceded Gastaldi’s leg- endary masterpiece. Woodward approximates the date of the Forlani at c.1562. Until recently, Gastaldi’s map was thought to have been issued c.1561, but Woodward’s research, as cited in the Corrigenda and Addenda to the 2001 edition of Shirley, concludes that “it is now con- sidered improbable that the impression dates from as early as c.1561.” While much has been written about the history and influence of Gastaldi’s map, we can find no mention of its connection to Forlani’s South America, or to the possibility that Forlani’s map may have been the source for Gastaldi’s South America. ref: Woodward, The Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani, p. 9, #11; cf: Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 2001 Edition, Corrigenda and Addenda, #107. BLAEU MAPS O F SOUTH AMERICA

SUPERB EXAMPLES IN ORIGINAL COLOR

The following five Blaeu maps of South America are all in original hand color and excellent condition. The maps are from the 1650 edi- tion of Gvil et Ioannis Blaeu Theatrvm Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novvs. Willem Blaeu was the founder of one of the most powerful cartograph- ic houses in Amsterdam, a firm which would dominate mapmaking for the greater part of the seventeenth century. Blaeu’s monumental work would be an eleven-volume atlas which was unsurpassed for beauty, scope, and relative accuracy. After Willem’s death in 1638 the firm continued under the direction of his sons Cornelis and Joannis until a fire destroyed the business in 1672. BLAEU MAPS O F SOUTH AMERICA

18. (VENEZUELA) BLAEU, WILLEM / BLAEU, JOANNIS, Venezvela, cum parte Sustrali Novae and Andalvsiae, 1650. 14 3/4” x 19”. $1,900. [pictured opposite]

19 (GUIANA) BLAEU, WILLEM / BLAEU, JOANNIS, Gviana siue Amazonvm Regio, 1650. 14 1/2” x 19 1/4”. $1,500. [pictured below]

20. (PARAGUAY) BLAEU, WILLEM / BLAEU, JOANNIS, Paragvay, O Prov. De Rio de la Plat..., 1650. 14 1/2” x 18 3/4”. $950. [not pictured]

21. (PERU) BLAEU, WILLEM / BLAEU, JOANNIS, Perv, 1650. 14 3/4” x 19 1/4”. $950. [not pictured]

22. (COLOMBIA) BLAEU, WILLEM / BLAEU, JOANNIS, Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan, 1650. 14 3/4” x 19”. $1,900. [not pictured] CITIES O F THE NEW WORLD

WOODCUT VIEW WITH THE FIRST USE OF THE NAME MONTREAL

23. RAMUSIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA / GASTALDI, GIACOMO, La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia [Venice], 1556/1606. 10 1/2” x 14 1/2”. Uncolored. Excellent condition. $1,600. This is the third and final edition of Ramusio’s plan of Montreal from the Navigationi et Viaggi. The map “purports to show the landing of Cartier at Hochelaga during his second voyage in 1535-36, together with a plan of the village. Lighthall has suggested that both are a fan- ciful elaboration, and the real significance of the map rests with the first usage of ‘Monte Real’, present day Montreal” -- Kershaw. ref: Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 63; Tooley, The Mapping of America, p. 211; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, Volume I, #17b. CITIES O F THE NEW WORLD

16TH CENTURY VIEWS OF MEXICO CITY AND CUSCO, PERU IN FULL ORIGINAL HAND COLOR

24. BRAUN & HOGENBERG, Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas.../ Cvsco Regni, 1572. 10” x 18 1/2”. Full original hand color. Very good condition. $2,850. These two views on one folio sheet show the centers of Aztec and Incan cultures at the time of their conquest. They represent the only maps of the New World in Braun and Hogenberg’s monumental city atlas, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Like many of the European maps from their atlas, the views illustrate costumed figures and local activities in the foreground. Published in six parts between 1572 and 1617, Braun and Hogenberg’s landmark work was “the earliest systematic city atlas” attempting to depict every city in the world. ref: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Volume II, pp. 10-25. EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

LANDMARK MAP OF FLORIDA AND THE SOUTHEAST

25. LE MOYNE, JACQUES / DE BRY, THEODORE, Floridae Americae Provincae Recens & exactissima descriptio..., 1591. 14 1/2” x 18”. Uncolored. Some wear to lower folds, but generally a very good example. $19,500. Jacques Le Moyne’s landmark map of Florida influenced the car- tography of the southeast for nearly 150 years. It was used as a model for the Hondius map of 1606, which appeared in the Mercator- Hondius atlas. With this endorsement from the most esteemed Dutch cartographers, the map’s delineations, misconceptions included, were perpetuated throughout the Dutch period. Engraved from an original EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

which Le Moyne drew on the scene, the map made crucial strides in the cartography of the Southeast. Le Moyne accompanied the French colonizing expedition to the New World led by Laudonaiere in 1564. In addition to this map, he produced a series of watercolor paintings of Indian life and manners. De Bry had attempted to purchase these manuscripts without success during Le Moyne’s lifetime, and eventually acquired them from his widow after his death in 1587. This map and Le Moyne’s paintings of native life were engraved by De Bry and appeared in Book II of his Grand Voyages in 1591. The map is most accurate in delineating the coastlines of northern Florida and Georgia. Ribaut, the leader of the first French expedition to the Southeast in 1562, conducted careful surveys of the coastline as far north as Parris Island. Presumably Le Moyne had the benefit of this information. Moreover, the map was the first to show a number of inland lakes. In Florida, a lake called "Sarrope" is most likely Lake Okeechobee, while just north of this is a larger lake probably intended to represent Lake George. On later maps this would become the great inland lake of the Southeast. Farther north among the Appalachians is another lake with a waterfall, which is commonly thought to be a rep- resentation of Niagara Falls, which Le Moyne had heard about from Indian reports. The map has a number of noticeable distortions, the most promi- nent of which is the excessive eastward direction of the Georgia and Carolina coasts. Also, at the very top of the map is the edge of a body of water which, based on Verazzano, was mistakenly thought to be the Pacific. The manuscript of this map, if there was one, has not survived and only one of Le Moyne’s original watercolors exists, that being in the New York Public Library. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #79; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, #14, pl. 15; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 77; Phillips, The Lowery Collection, pp. 90-92; Fite and Freeman, Old Maps, pp. 69-70. EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

JOHN WHITE’S MAP OF VIRGINIA

“ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CARTOGRAPHICAL MILESTONES IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY” -- BURDEN EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

26. WHITE, JOHN / DE BRY, THEODORE, Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta..., 1590. 11 3/4” x 16 1/4”. Uncolored. An excellent example. $18,500. This map of Virginia, engraved by Theodore De Bry from a manu- script by John White, is “one of the most significant cartographical milestones in colonial North American history. It was the most accu- rate map drawn in the sixteenth century of any part of that continent. It became the prototype of the area until long after James Moxon’s map in 1671” -- Burden. This remarkable work was the most detailed print- ed map of any part of North America to appear to date. It was the first printed map to focus on Virginia and the first to name the Chesapeake Bay. It records the earliest English attempts at colonization in the New World, depicting the Virginia area before the disastrous end of the orig- inal Roanoke Colony in 1590. The map portrays the coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout “in more detail and with greater accuracy than had been done for any other part of the New World for many years to come” -- Cumming. The map appeared in Book I of De Bry’s massive work on the Americas, Grands Voyages. De Bry originally intended to use Jacques Le Moyne’s drawings of the French expedition to the Southeast for the first book in the series, but was convinced by Sir Walter Raleigh to devote the first book to Virginia in an effort to encourage colonization. De Bry’s Grands Voyages, eventually totaling fourteen books, would become the foundation work on the Americas, largely responsible for the European conception of the New World. The White/De Bry map had an enormous influence on the mapping of both Virginia and Carolina. Cumming calls the map “one of the most important type- maps in Carolina cartography” and goes on to say that “most maps of the New World and of this region showed the influence of De Bry’s engraving.” ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #76; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, #12; Morrison, On the Map, p. 4. EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

FIGURATIVE PORTRAITS OF THE GREAT EXPLORERS

BENZONI’S MAP OF THE NEW WORLD EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

27. DE BRY, THEODORE / BENZONI, GIROLAMO, America Sive Novvs Orbis Respectv Evropeorvm Inferior Globi Terrestris Pars. 1596, 1596. 12 3/4” x 15 1/2”. Later hand color. Very good condition. $12,500. The third volume of Girolamo Benzoni’s voyages in the New World appeared in the sixth part of De Bry’s Grand Voyages. His account was accompanied by this extraordinary map of the Western Hemisphere, which is surrounded by large figurative portraits of explorers Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, and Francisco Pizarro. In addition to its striking appearance, this rare map is perhaps the best compilation of geographical information about America of the 16th century. Largely based on the world map of 1594 by Petrus Plancius, it is the first to combine the findings of John White and Jacques Le Moyne to delineate the areas of Virginia and Florida. It also includes information newly acquired by Cornelis Claesz from the Lasso chart, depicting a single insular Newfoudland. Additional improvements include clarifying the coastlines of the Solomon Islands and the use of the latest Portuguese information on the far west coast. Burden notes that “this beautifully engraved map follows the style de Bry was becoming known for; he was one of the major influences encouraging the full decoration of maps.” ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #91. EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

JOHN SMITH’S LANDMARK MAP OF VIRGINIA

“ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINTED MAPS OF AMERICA EVER PUBLISHED” -- BURDEN EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

28. SMITH, JOHN, Virginia, 1612/1625. 12 5/8” x 16 1/8”. Uncolored. Remargined with some restoration. $18,500. “One of the most important printed maps of America ever pub- lished and certainly one of the greatest influence. It became the proto- type for the area for half a century” -- Burden. John Smith’s map of the fledgeling Virginia colony is one of the true milestones in the mapping of America. Burden goes so far as to say that the map’s publication considerably influenced the success of the Virginia Colony itself. John Smith accompanied the settlers at Jamestown in 1607. Between 1607 and 1609 he journeyed up all the major rivers which flowed west into the Chesapeake Bay, recording the names of the Native Amercian villages and tribes he encountered. The endpoint of each journey is marked with a Maltese cross, and Smith relied on Indian accounts to delineate territories further upriver. He notes on the map “To the crosses hath bin discouerd what beyond is by rela- tion.” This record of early Native American life has proved invalu- able. “To this day the map is still used by archaeologists to locate native Indian villages. It records 166 of them, and is remarkably detailed” -- Burden. The illustrations of Powhatan’s Council and a Sasquesahanough Indian are derived from the drawings of John White. Upon his return to England in 1609, Smith employed William Hole to engrave a map, which was published in a small pamphlet by Joseph Barnes of Oxford in 1612. The map would not appear again for twelve years, when it was included, along with Smith’s map of New England, in his landmark work, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, in 1624. The following year it was included in an expansive five-volume work entitled Purchas His Pilgrimes. “The majority of these works are very scarce” -- Burden. The map being offered here is the ninth of twelve states as defined by Burden. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #164, State 9; Stephenson & McKee, Virginian Maps, pp. 28-30. EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

RARE FIRST STATE OF THE DUDLEY / LUCINI CHART

“THE FIRST PRINTED SEA CHART OF THE SOUTHEAST” -- BURDEN EARLY MAPS O F AMERICA

29. DUDLEY, ROBERT / LUCINI, ANTONIO, Carta particolare della costa di Florida e di Virginia, 1647. 18 3/4” x 15 1/2”. First Edition. Minor signs of aging, however an excellent example. $18,000. First state. Rare. “This is the first printed sea chart of the south- east. Using Mercator’s projection for the first time, it is also the earli- est to record the prevailing winds and ocean currents. Beautifully engraved by Antonio Francesco Lucini, it attempts to depict many sand banks and reefs in these waters, and records the various magnet- ic deviations of the compass” -- Burden. The map depicts the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral in Florida north to Delaware Bay. The chart comes from Sir Robert Dudley’s landmark work, Dell’Arcano del Mare, which was the first printed English nautical atlas ever published, and the first to set down charts on the Mercator Projection. Dudley’s charts were engraved by the Florentine master Lucini over the course of twelve years, and are among the most distinctive productions of early cartography. “They represent the finest of Italian capabilities, the clarity of the engraving presenting an uncluttered image” -- Burden. This is an excellent example of the rare first state of the chart, of which Burden notes, “there are two states; both are rare, the first being especially so.” ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #280; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, #45. SEPARATELY PUBLISHED ENGLISH MAP

A SUPERBLY DECORATED ENGLISH MAP

OVERTON’S SEPARATELY PUBLISHED WESTERN HEMISPHERE SEPARATELY PUBLISHED ENGLISH MAP

30. OVERTON, JOHN, A New and most exact Map of America..., 1671. 16 3/4” x 21 1/2”. Uncolored. Excellent condition. $22,000. Separately published. Rare. In 1665 English publisher John Overton acquired the stock of print seller Peter Stent. One void in Stent’s substantial collection of plates was a set of maps of the conti- nents, and this stunning engraving of the Americas was one of those created to fill that gap. The map is highly detailed with rich decorative borders depicting natives, explorers, and a number of small city views. Burden notes that the map is derived primarily from those of Overton’s two chief English rivals -- Robert Walton and Thomas Jenner. He drew on Walton’s map for the decorative borders and large inset of the polar regions and upon Jenner’s for the cartography. There are a number of curious things about Overton’s map of America, including the Briggs shape to the island of California, the total omission of Greenland, and even though New Jersey is named there is a lack of any reference to the English possession of New York. According to Burden, the map was sometimes included in made-to- order atlases assembled by Overton starting around 1670, and found in only two other works: Lewes Roberts’ The Merchants Map of Commerce, and Robert Fage’s Cosmography, both appearing in 1671. This is the second state of the map as defined in Burden. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #401, state 2. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

FIRST EDITION OF THE JANSSON MAP OF NEW ENGLAND

“ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PROTOTYPE MAPS OF AMERICA” -- BURDEN THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

31. JANSSONIUS, JOANNES, Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae, Et Partis Virginiae Novissima Delineatio, 1650. 17 1/4” x 20 1/4”. First edition. Original outline color with some light offsetting. Reinforced on verso. Generally good condition. $9,500. First edition. “This map by Joannes Janssonius must be ranked as one of the fundamental prototype maps of America in the seventeenth century. The model and nomenclature first laid out here were followed by later cartographers for over 100 years, and form part of the celebrat- ed Janssonius-Visscher series of maps” -- Burden. Jansson’s map was the most detailed and accurate delineation of the region to date. It recorded all European settlements in the area with the same degree of attention and accuracy, painting a remarkable portrait of this complex period when the region was divided under Dutch, English, Swedish and French control. A wealth of new information is contained on this remarkable map, with Burden noting that New Netherland “is much improved with a more recognisable form of Manhattan Island.” Jansson also made improvements to the delineation of Long Island, which is now accu- rately portrayed as a more homogeneous landmass. Of particular interest is the inclusion of numerous English settlements along the Connecticut River, many of which appear here for the first time on a printed map. The map is decorated with vignettes of local game and an Indian Village scene, images which would be incorporated on the many derivative maps that followed it. There are two variants of the first edition of Jansson’s landmark map: one issued with and one without text on the verso. This exam- ple has the text. The first edition can be identified by the absence of a dedication to de Raet, which appeared on the second edition, issued c.1660. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #305, state 1. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

THE VISSCHER VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY

SECOND STATE, WITHOUT PHILADELPHIA THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

32. VISSCHER, NICOLAS, Novi Belgii novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula..., c.1652. 18 1/4” x 21 3/4”. Original outline color, with view in full original color. Some light offsetting. A very good example. $19,000. Second state, with Fort Kasimir and without Philadelphia. Shortly after its first appearance, Nicolas Visscher issued a corrected copy of Jansson’s landmark map of New England [see item #31], making one significant addition. The Visscher map “is of extreme importance for introducing a view of New Amsterdam in the lower right” -- Burden. This view is one of the earliest obtainable images of the city of New York, preceded only by the extremely rare view by Joost Hartgers, which was published in 1651, and a 1650 etched view by Johannis Blaeu which, according to Joep de Koning, is the model for the view on Visscher’s map. This early panorama of the city shows the southern section of Manhattan Island as a small wooden settlement dominated by a wind- mill, a Church, a hanging scaffold, pillory and fort, along with the more substantial buildings of the Director-General and West India Company. With the addition of the view, Visscher created a composite map of such striking design that it became a model for numerous European cartographers for over a century. The first state of the Visscher map was separately published prior to the construction of Fort Kasimir and is known in only three exam- ples, making this second state the earliest obtainable example of the map. De Koning redates this second edition at c.1652, where Burden had dated the map at c.1656. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #315, State 2; Tooley, The Mapping of America, p. 284; de Koning, “From Van der Donck to Visscher,” Mercator’s World, July 2000, pp. 28-33. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

EXTREMELY RARE VAN DER DONCK MAP

33. VAN DER DONCK, ADRIAEN / NIEUWENHOFF, EVERT, Nova Belgica sive Nieuw Nederlandt, 1656. 11 7/8” x 7 1/4”. First state. Uncolored. An excellent example. $28,000. First state. Extremely rare. This map appeared in Adriaen van der Donck’s Beschryvinge Van Nieuw-Nederlandt, 1656. Van der Donck’s volume was the seminal account of New Netherland and one of the true landmarks of Americana. Church states “the treatise possesses an interest beyond its rarity, being the relation of an educated man regard- ing the Indians of the island and the neighborhood of New York,” while Henry Stevens remarks, “what the first folio is to an English col- lector, a van der Donck is to the American.” THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

The Beschryvinge was illustrated by this map, which becomes even more important as recent evidence points to van der Donck, not Visscher, as being the creator of the famous view of New Amsterdam [see item #32] as well as the compiler of the manuscript prototype for the Jansson map [see item #31]. According to Joep de Koning, “it would do justice to van der Donck’s accomplishments to name [the maps in the Jansson-Visscher series] ‘The van der Donck series of Maps’.” In 1648, van der Donck was appointed to the Board of Nine Men who represented the Dutch colony of New Netherland under director- general Peter Stuyvesant. In less than a year, van der Donck was preparing a polemic urging the States-General in The Hague to recall Stuyvesant for mismanagement. Stuyvesant seized rough drafts of the protest and imprisoned its author for libel -- but van der Donck perse- vered. In July of 1649, his Remonstrance of New Netherland was signed by petitioners and delivered to officials at The Hague. That event was the first action of a citizen to seek redress of grievances, an action which would be protected and enshrined nearly 150 years later in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791. Presented at The Hague with van der Donck’s Remonstrance were two remarkable documents. The first was a watercolor pen and ink drawing of the city of New Amsterdam which was only recently dis- covered in the possession of the Austrian National Library. The second was a manuscript map of New Netherland by van der Donck, which remains lost. De Koning dates the watercolor view at 1648, making it the prototype for the image of the city which Visscher would make famous. De Koning also makes the case that Jansson’s original map of New England “was engraved in 1650 from the manuscript map that accompanied the Remonstrance.” By the time Visscher issued his edi- tion with the view, the “place-names follow exactly van der Donck’s writings in his Remonstrance, in minute detail and in the same order.” The map being offered here is the only work in the series published by the man who many now consider to be the original author of the Jansson-Visscher series. This first state of the map can be identified by the misprinting of Fort Kasimir as Fort Christina, resulting in the appearance of Fort Christina twice on the map. ref: de Koning, “From Van der Donck to Visscher,” Mercator’s World, July 2000, pp. 28-33; Burden, The Mapping of North America, #317. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

THE DUTCH RECLAIM NEW AMSTERDAM

HUGO ALLARD’S RESTITUTIO VIEW OF THE CITY THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

34. ALLARD, HUGO / ALLARD, CAREL, Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula., c.1674/c.1684. 18 1/8” x 21”. Full original color. Excellent condition. $18,000. Separately published. In 1674, Hugo Allard would change the face of the Jansson-Visscher series of maps with the introduction of a new image of the city of New York. “In the early 1660s tension between England and Holland was growing, and English claims to the New Netherlands were being made” -- Burden. At the center of this conflict was control of the city of New Amsterdam, which had been provisionally ceded to the English in 1664 and renamed New York. But in August of 1673, a Dutch fleet under the command of Cornelius Evertsen re-captured the city. To celebrate the return of New Amsterdam to Dutch rule, Hugo Allard created a new view of the city, which he used to replace the ear- lier Visscher view on his plate of the Jansson-Visscher map of New England. Allard’s view shows a city which has increased considerably in size, with a vast wall constructed at the waterfront. Above the view is a splendid cartouche where, on a pedestal engraved with the word Restitutio, a female figure holds a laurel of victory. Allard’s Restitutio view would remain on the map long after the Dutch returned the city to the English in November of 1674. Burden notes seven separate states of the Allard map. This is an example of the fifth state, issued c.1684 by Hugo’s son Carel. There is an additional line in the title of the view referring to the English repos- session, and Nieuw Iork has been appended to New Amsterdam. Philadelphia has also been added, and the boundary of Pennsylvania is now shown. This is the final edition of the map to be issued by the Allard family before the plates were sold to Joachim Ottens. Allard editions of the map are far scarcer than the later Ottens imprints [see item #35]. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #373, State 5. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

THE OTTENS EDITION

35. ALLARD, HUGO / OTTENS, Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, c.1684/c.1725. 18 1/4” x 21”. 7th state. Original outline color with uncolored view. Excellent condition. $9,500. This is the Ottens edition of Allard’s plate of the famous Jansson- Visscher series of maps of New England with the Resitiutio View of New York [see item #34]. In 1708 the Allard plate was sold to the Ottens family of publishers, who contiued to issue the map well into the 18th century. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #373, State 7. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

REDUCED EDITION BY OGILBY

36. OGILBY / MONTANUS, Novi Belgii Quod nunc Novi Jorck bocatur, Novae Anglia & Partis Virginiae..., 1671. 11 1/2” x 14 1/2”. Uncolored. Very good condition. $1,900. This is a reduced version of the famous Jansson-Visscher series of maps of New England. This finely engraved example by John Ogilby does not include a view of New York, but does boast a marvelous dec- orative cartouche. The map appeared in Montanus’s famous illustrat- ed work on the New World, Amerika. THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

LAST MAJOR DERIVATIVE OF THE JANSSON/VISSCHER MAP

THE ENGLISH EDITION BY JOHN SPEED THE JANSSON-VISSCHER SERIES

37. SPEED, JOHN / BASSETT & CHISWELL, A Map of New England and New York..., c.1676. 15” x 20”. Uncolored. Strong impression. Some minor repairs to cen- terfold, but generally an excellent example. $5,500. This is the last major derivative in the Jansson-Visscher series of maps. While earlier editions delineated the area into the varying regions of New France, New England, and New Netherland, Speed’s edition is unapologetic about the British possession of the entire area. His map boasts an English title and many new English placenames. All references to Novum Belgium and New Netherland have been removed, and New France in the northeast has been re-christened New Scotland (Nova Scotia). Speed’s map was engraved by Francis Lamb and published in London by Basset & Chiswell. According to Campbell, the Speed “is smaller than the Jansson protoype but the scale remains the same and the map stops off short to the west and south, mainly affecting Virginia.” In addition to changes in nomenclature, Speed has updated much of the cartography. He has brought the heads of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays closer together and re-drawn the Susquehanna River. ref: Campbell, The Jansson-Visscher Maps of New England, #23. DUTCH SEA CHARTS O F NEW NETHERLAND

EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE OF JACOB COLOM’S CHART OF NEW NETHERLAND OMITTING MANHATTAN ISLAND

38. COLOM, JACOB AERTSZ., T’Amsterdam. By Iacob Colom, 1663. 21 1/2” x 25 1/8”. Uncolored. Excellent condition. $28,000. This is the extremely rare first state of Jacob Colom’s sea chart of New Netherland. Derived from his son Arnold’s map of 1656, the chart has been altered in one significant way; he has redrawn the region surrounding what is now New York City in such a way as to completely omit Manhattan Island. He partially corrected this error on the second state [published later the same year] by placing the name “N. Amsterdam” onto the mainland. This is the very rare first state of the chart as defined by Burden, which omits New Amsterdam com- pletely and is without the decorative cartouche and inset map of the Southeast which appeared on the second state. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #375, state 1. DUTCH SEA CHARTS O F NEW NETHERLAND

39. GOOS, PIETER, Pas caerte van Nieu Nederlandt en de Engelsche Virginies van Cabo Cod tot Cabo Canrick, 1666. 16 7/8” x 20 3/4”. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $9,500. This beautiful sea chart of New England by Pieter Goos was issued in his sea atlas, De Zee Atlas ofte Water-Weereld. This magnificent atlas was published in 1666 and, unlike earlier pilot books by Goos, covered not only European waters, but the entire world. Seven new charts relating to North America were created for the Zee Atlas, including this fine chart of the Atlantic coast from Boston Harbor in the north to Cape Hatteras in the south. The chart is drawn from Johannes van Loon’s rare map of 1661, which improved the coastline tremendously from earlier works. Burden notes that although the English had taken pos- session of much of the region by 1666, it is still prominently identified as Dutch. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #387; Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Volume IV, pp. 193, 197 & 199; Putnam, Early Sea Charts, pp. 99-100. DUTCH SEA CHARTS O F THE MARITIMES

40. ROGGEVEEN, Pascaerte van Terra Nova Nova Francia Nievw Engeland En de Groote Revier van Canada, 1675. First state. 17 1/4” x 21”. Uncolored. Trimmed close with no loss of printed surface. Very good condition. $8,500. Roggeveen’s chart is modeled after the Van Loon of 1661, which was the earliest Dutch sea chart of the maritimes. The information on the map comes from a combination of sources, including Champlain, Sanson, Blaeu, and the manuscripts of Gerritz. Curiously, English information on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland is not used, although it was utilized on the earlier Blaeu map, and Prince Edward Island is omitted completely. The map was published in Roggeveen’s Het Eerste Deel Van Het Brandende Veen and subsequently used by Goos in his 1676 Spanish edition of De Zee-Atlas. This is an example of the first state of the map. ref: Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, #184; cf: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #365. DUTCH SEA CHARTS O F THE MARITIMES

41. DONCKER, HENDRICK, Pas-Caert van Terra Nova, Nova Francia, Nieuw-Engeland en de groote Rivier van Canada..., 1669/1678. 17” x 20 1/2”. Original outline color, laid down on second sheet of paper as issued. Very good condition. $4,800. This is the second state of Doncker’s chart of the maritimes, with the northern part of the Great Banks pointing west of north. “Hendrick Doncker became one of the most active of the marine atlas and chart publishers in Amsterdam in the second half of the seven- teenth century. He was the first to follow Arnold Colom with a com- prehensive sea atlas” -- Burden. Based on the influential Van Loon chart, this map of the maritimes first appeared in Doncker’s Zee-Atlas in 1669, and the Grand Banks were completely re-engraved with added soundings for this 1678 edition. ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, #406, state 2; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, #183. EXCELLENT ENGLISH CHART O F LONG ISLAND

EXCELLENT ENGLISH SEA CHART BY JOHN THORNTON EXCELLENT ENGLISH CHART O F LONG ISLAND

42. THORNTON, JOHN, Part of New England New York East New Iarsey and Long Iland, 1689. 16 3/4” x 20 1/4”. Uncolored. Very good condition. $28,000. Appearing only in early editions of the North American volume of The English Pilot, John Thornton’s chart of Long Island is extremely rare. Allen makes a case that the chart is directly based on the famous 1675 manuscript map by Robert Ryder, and notes that after the appear- ance of the Thornton chart “there is a long pause in the progress of the mapping of Long Island.” It remained a model for maps of the area for well over fifty years, and “the best maps of Long Island published between 1690 and 1750 were more or less accurate copies of the Thornton chart” -- Allen. Centering on Long Island, the chart depicts parts of the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut coastlines including New York Bay and the fledgeling city of New York. All the important towns along the Connecticut coast are shown, and Block Island is marked at the far eastern edge of the map. Campbell notes that the Thornton is “markedly superior” to other English and Dutch charts of the day. ref: McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, #689.7; Deak, Picturing America, p. 42; Campbell, English Mapping of America, #13; Allen, Long Island Maps & Their Makers, pp. 16-21. A N EARLY AMERICAN CHART O F LONG ISLAND

EXCESSIVELY RARE MATTHEW CLARK CHART OF LONG ISLAND

43. CLARK, MATTHEW / CARLETON, OSGOOD, Chart of the Coast of America From New York to Rhode Island from the latest Surveys..., 1789/1790. 16 3/4” x 24 1/2”. Uncolored. Very good condition. $38,000. Excessively rare. This early American chart of Long Island and the New England coast was published in Matthew Clark's A Complete Set of Charts of American Waters from Cape Breton to the Entrance to the Gulph of Mexico, Boston, 1790. Clark’s landmark atlas was "the first totally American production of its kind and one designed to compete with its English counterparts. It was, as well, a monumental cartographic effort for newly Federal America in a field which until this time had been monopolized and closely guarded by Holland and England" -- Garvan. Clark produced eighteen superb charts, which were sold sep- arately as well as published in bound sets bearing a dedication to John Hancock. This work marked the beginning of indigenous American A N EARLY AMERICAN CHART O F LONG ISLAND chartmaking, with Clark publishing “the first comprehensive set of charts of the American coastline from Florida to Canada" -- McCorkle. Only eight complete sets of Clark’s nautical atlas are known, all in American institutions. As for loose examples of the charts, either sep- arately-published or extracted from the atlas, they are also excessively rare. Garvan was able to locate just one after an extensive search of American "libraries and dealer's shops" -- Clark’s chart of Albermarle Sound and Cape Lookout, which is in the Essex Institute in Salem Mass. There is no record of this chart of Long Island ever being offered on the market before. "These were working charts and their rarity today... must be attributed in part to their having been worn out from use at sea" -- McCorkle. The Chart of the Coast of America From New York to Rhode Island is one of the most important in Clark's series and is the only example repro- duced by Ristow (plate 15-3) and Garvan (fig. 3). It shows Long Island, the vicinity of New York City, the south shore of Connecticut, and the entrance to Naragansett Bay. An inset at lower right shows Hell’s Gate, the East River and the eastern shore of Manhattan Island. The shape of Long Island is given with great accuracy. Each of Clark's charts bore a statement of approval as a "true and accurate chart" signed by Osgood Carlton, the surveyor, publisher of almanacs, and highly respected teacher of astronomy and mathemat- ics. The Boston Marine Society, which represented New England ship- masters, trusted him to judge the quality and accuracy of charts, his "seal of approval" being an assurance to the purchaser of the map's integrity. Carlton's "seal of approval" on this chart is dated "Octobr. 17th 1789". Two of the charts in Clark's atlas, including this example, From New York to Rhode Island, were engraved by John Norman who, inspired by his work for Clark, subsequently published his own nautical atlas, the American Pilot in 1791, with eleven charts. ref: Garvan, "Matthew Clark's Charts One Significant Example of Yankee Enterprise," Philadelphia Printmaking, pp. 42-69; Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, plate 15- 3; Guthorn, United States Coastal Charts 1783-1861, p. 7 (see also pp. 43 & 96); cf: McCorkle, America Emergent, 51.

THE BATTLE FOR SPANISH GOLD

BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE IN FULL ORIGINAL COLOR

44. MORTIER, PIERRE, Teatre de la Guerre en Amerique... Archipelague du Mexique, ou sont les Isles de Cuba, Espagnole, Iamaique, &c..., c.1705. 23 1/2” x 39 5/8”. Full original color. Excellent condition. $11,500. Mortier’s superbly illustrated map of the West Indies and Central America depicts the time of the War of the Spanish Succession (1702- 1714). During this bloody conflict, Britain, Holland and the German Empire were pitted against France and Spain. For the first time, the legendary fleets of Spanish treasure ships became legitimate military targets, offering conquering navies the promise of unimaginable wealth in addition to strategical advantage. Campbell notes that such raids had previously been a sport left to pirates and buccaneers. In spite of the wealth they carried, the Spanish treasure fleets held to a regular schedule, as it was vital that the ships, with their heavily armed escorts, leave before late summer to avoid the deadly hurricane season. “Early in the summer, two Spanish fleets would leave Cadiz, the main section heading via Cartagena for the collection points at Portobelo (close to Panama), the other making for Vera Cruz. Forewarned of their arrival, the local authorities would have gathered the bullion from the mines of Mexico and Peru, as well as the cargo brought from the Philippines. The two laden fleets would then ren- dezvous at Havana for the homeward passage” -- Campbell. Mortier’s map outlines these procedures and “is in effect a plain man’s guide to the treasure shipments, plotting the routes and describ- ing the routines.” The large vignette in the lower left contains a lavish scene of gold-mining, while “the chest crammed with ingots would have made any Bluebeard go weak at the knees, but the truth is that by this date the Spaniards were shipping silver, not gold.” ref: Campbell, Early Maps, pp. 60-61, plate 26. IMPORTANT MAPS O F THE ENGLISH COLONIES IMPORTANT MAPS O F THE ENGLISH COLONIES

1737 DUTCH EDITION OF POPPLE’S MAP OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE ON FOUR SHEETS

45. POPPLE, HENRY / COVENS & MORTIER, A Map of the British Empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements..., 1737. Four sheets, each measuring 23 1/4” x 20 5/8”, for a total measure- ment of 46 1/2” x 40 1/8”. A fine example with strong original outline color. $22,000. Published by the prestigious Dutch firm of Covens & Mortier, this is a reduced version of Popple’s New Map of the British Empire in America. Henry Popple’s monumental map was first published in 1733 on twenty sheets. It was the first large scale map of the English colonies and provided a level of detail that had previously been unavailable. But the unwieldy size of the twenty-sheet map was impractical, and in 1737 Covens & Mortier reduced the size by half and published it in four separate sheets. Typical of the high quality of Covens & Mortier’s work, the map is beautifully engraved and print- ed on high quality paper. ref: Tooley, The Mapping of America, p. 315.

IMPORTANT MAPS O F THE ENGLISH COLONIES

THE FAMOUS FRY/JEFFERSON MAP OF VIRGINIA 46. FRY, JOSHUA /JEFFERSON, PETER, A Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland with part of Pennsilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson, 1751/1775. Four unjoined publisher’s sheets, each measuring 15 1/4” x 24” for a total measurement of 30 1/2” x 48”. Some original outline color. A superb example. $47,500. The Fry-Jefferson map is the primary cartographic document of Virginia from the eighteenth century. It was based on the earliest accu- rate surveys of the Virginia colony and was the first to depict the con- figuration of the Appalachian and Allegheny mountain ranges in the western interior. The map was commissioned by the English Lords of Trade, who in 1750 required each colony to conduct a comprehensive survey. Appointed to the task were Joshua Fry, a mathematician at the College of William and Mary, and Peter Jefferson, a surveyor and the father of Thomas Jefferson, who together had drawn the boundaries of Lord Fairfax’s lands in 1746 and surveyed the Virginia-North Carolina boundary in 1749. Completed in 1751, the map was a masterful syn- thesis of original surveys and existing data. A major revision in 1755 incorporated important information about the western part of the colony from the journals of John Dalrymple and other sources. Eight separate states of the Fry-Jefferson map have been identified. The four early states culminate in the issue of 1755, by which time all of the important geographical revisions were incorporated. In the four states subsequent to 1755, geographical detail was unchanged, but the publisher’s imprint varied. The first four states are so rare as to be vir- tually unobtainable. The present example is State 6, as identified by Coolie Verner, which differs from State 5 only by the date printed in the title (1775 instead of 1751), and from State 7 by a change in imprint (State 7 omits Jefferys address, which is included in State 6). ref: Pritchard & Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude, pp. 154-159; Stephenson/McKee, Virginia in Maps, Map II-21A-D, p. 83; Cumming, The Southeast In Early Maps, #281; Coolie Verner, “The Fry and Jefferson Map” in Imago Mundi XXI, pp. 70-94; cf: Morrison, On the Map, Figure 42. ROBERT VAUGONDY’S MAPS O F AMERICA

FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE FRY/JEFFERSON VIRGINIA

47. VAUGONDY, ROBERT / FRY, JOSHUA / JEFFERSON, PETER, Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland... 1755. 19” x 25”. First edition. Original outline color. Excellent condition. $4,500. French mapmaker Robert Vaugondy was the first to reduce the famous Fry-Jefferson from its original large format (almost three by four feet), doing so before the second edition of the original map had a chance to be issued. The first English edition (1751) of the Fry- Jefferson is almost unobtainable, making this first French edition the earliest available to the collector. ref: cf: Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, #281. ROBERT VAUGONDY’S MAPS O F AMERICA

FIRST STATE VAUGONDY MAP OF CANADA AND THE GREAT LAKES

48. VAUGONDY, ROBERT, Partie de l'Amerique Septent? qui comprend La Nouvelle France..., 1755. 18 3/4” x 23 3/4”. First state. Original outline color. Very light brown- ing in centerfold. Very good condition. $1,800. 1755 was one of the most significant years in the history of map- making. John Mitchell’s and Lewis Evans’ maps were both published that year along with scores of English and French works which made territorial claims for their countries. Vaugondy’s L’Amerique Septent... was one of these important maps produced just prior to the French and Indian War. The large inset map of the Great Lakes provides one of the best delineations of the region at the time and is one of the earliest to use the present names of all five lakes. ref: Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada, #354, plate 235. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

SET OF FOUR RARE BATTLE PLANS

49. CONTGEN, GEORG JOSEPF / THERBU / SEIBEL, [set of four maps] Attaques Des Forts de Chouaguen en Amerique... 1756... [and] Attaques Des Retranchemens Devant Le Fort Carillon en Amerique... 1758... [and] Attaques de Fort William-Henri en Amerique... 1757... [and] Le Plan de Louisbourg dans l’Isle royale au Canada, 1789. Set of four maps, measuring approximately 14” x 9 1/4” each. Original spot color. Clear, dark impressions. An excellent set. $8,500. In 1789 Georg Joseph Contgen issued Les plans de la Guerre de Sept Ans, a rare volume of 42 battle plans of the French and Indian War. Known in Europe as the Seven Years’ War or the Great War for the Empire, battles in this bloody conflict raged in Europe, India, Africa and the West Indies, but the conflict in North America alone took more lives than the American Revolution, making it the deadliest contest fought on North American soil in the 18th century. These four plans represent the only plates of the North American Theatre of War from Contgen’s famous volume. The plans of Fort William Henry, Fort Chouagues (Oswego), and Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga) are signed “Dessine par Lieutenant Therbu,” while the plan of the siege of Louisbourg is signed “Dessine par T. Seibel, Bombardier.” None of the plans are in Phillips. An excellent set with clean, dark impressions and original spot color. ref: Not in Phillips; Schwartz, The French And Indian War, Figures 53, 59, 62 and 64. AARON ARROWSMITH’S MAP O F AMERICA AARON ARROWSMITH’S MAP O F AMERICA

50. ARROWSMITH, AARON, A Map of the United States of America, 1796/1802. 48 3/4” x 56 1/4”. Dissected and mounted on original linen. A fine example in original color. $14,000. Third issue “with additions to 1802.” “Aaron Arrowsmith (1750- 1823) was one of the greatest English cartographers” -- Tooley. His map of the United States was the most important of America at the turn of the century and “one of the last large maps of the U.S. to be pro- duced in England, prior to the development of substantial cartograph- ic activity in the Americas” -- Maps of the 16th to 19th Centuries. Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy of this 1802 edition which he saw adver- tised in 1803. Jefferson ordered it because he admired Arrowsmith’s maps for their geographical information and because “the engraving is superiorly well done” -- Sowerby. “He was appointed Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales and later in 1820 to his His Majesty” -- Tooley. Arrowsmith went to great lengths to include accurate geographical information on his map of the United States. A detail of New England is featured prominently in Barbara McCorkle’s New England in Early Printed Maps. “The map covers the area east of the Great Plains, but shows little detail west of the Mississippi” -- Maps of the 16th to 19th Centuries. This 1802 edition includes a number of updates in the Great Lakes region, including a revised Lake Superior. Karpinski considered the Arrowsmith one of the “fundamental maps” in his classic work on the cartography of North America. “Arrowsmith was noted for the precision and accuracy of his maps, his integrity and excellence of his engraving and his skill in assembling reports and sketch maps which were sent to him by distin- guished travellers and explorers” -- Tooley. ref: Sowerby IV, p. 102; Stevens & Tree, #79c; Maps of the 16th to 19th Centuries, #124; Karpinski, Maps Depicting North America, p. 193; Tooley, “Aaron Arrowsmith”, The Map Collector, 9 (1979), pp. 19-22.