William Reese Company Rare Books, Americana, Literature & Pictorial Americana 409 Temple Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 203 / 789 · 8081 fax: 203 / 865 · 7653 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.reeseco.com Click on blue links to view complete Bulletin 21: American Cartography descriptions of the items and additional images where applicable. A Landmark American Map, Printed by Benjamin Franklin 1. Evans, Lewis: GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND MECHANICAL ESSAYS. THE FIRST, CONTAINING AN ANALYSIS OF A GENERAL MAP OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1755. Folding handcolored engraved map, 20¾ x 27¼ inches. Map backed on linen. Text: iv, 32pp. Quarto. Full tan polished tree calf by Riviere, red morocco label, a.e.g. Scattered light foxing. Very good. One of the most important maps of the British colonies done prior to that time, and its publication was a milestone in the development of Independence, a landmark in American cartography and an impor- printing arts in the colonial period”—Schwartz & Ehrenberg. tant Franklin printing. “The map is considered by historians to be the Evans’ map, which drew from his original surveys and Fry and Jef- most ambitious performance of its kind undertaken in America up to ferson’s 1753 map of Virginia, acknowledges French claims to all lands northwest of St. Lawrence Fort, resulting in criticism from New York. description of the Ohio country, and gives a good description of Despite the controversy, Evans’s work was very popular (there were the Carolina back country. The map was the authority for settling eighteen editions between 1755 and 1814), and was famously used by boundary disputes in the region. This is a rare example of the first General Braddock during the French and Indian War. issue of the map with lovely full period hand-coloring. Many cop- The accompanying text gives a detailed geographical description ies of Evans’ tract do not include the map, and only some copies are of the middle and southern colonies, particularly notable for an early fully colored, as is this copy. $280,000. Early South Carolina Map 2. Mortier, Pierre: CARTE PARTICULIERE DE LA CAROLINE DRESSÉE SU LES MEMORIES LE PLUS NOUVEAUX PAR LE SIEUR S*** . Amsterdam: P. Mortier. [1700]. Engraved map, with original outline color, 19¼ x 24¼ inches. Very good. This is the first map of South Carolina to be printed outside of by John Thornton and Robert Morden. All topographical details England, and was included as part of Pierre Mortier’s Suite de Nep- are identical to those of its antecedent; however, most of the place tune François, published in Amsterdam in 1700. It is often incor- names have been Gallicized. Importantly, however, Mortier labeled rectly attributed to Nicolas Sanson. The map, here in the first state, over 250 plantations with their proprietor’s names, far more than embraces most of South Carolina from the Santee River in the any previous map. The street grid of Charleston is outlined, and the north, to the South Edisto River in the south. It is directly derived network of roads connecting the various settlements is delineated. from the extremely rare A New Map [of] South Carolina of 1695 $9500. Famed Dutch Map of the Northeast 3. Doncker, Hendrick, and Gerard Van Keulen: A CHART OF THE SEA COASTS OF NEW NEDER LAND, VIRGINIA, NEW-ENGLAND, AND PENN-SILVANIA, WITH THE CITTY OF PHILADELPHIA, FROM BASTON TO CABO KARRIK. Amsterdam. [ca. 1706]. Engraved map, 21¼ x 24¾ inches. With wide margins, overall a strong impression. A beautifully printed example of the Doncker-van Keulen chart of the plates acquired by Johannes van Keulen (1654–1715), who also took American coast from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Boston. over Doncker’s store and made it into a workshop. He reissued this This is a classic Dutch sea chart of the northeast American coast, with chart with various changes (most notably reworking the cartouche insets of Holme’s plan of Philadelphia and Boston Harbor. of the original into the inset of Boston Harbor). The chart in its new First issued by the well-known Dutch publisher of maritime form appeared around 1706. The inset of Philadelphia is derived works, Hendrick Doncker (1626–99) in 1688, this striking chart of from the Dutch edition of Thomas Holme’s famous 1683 plan. the northeast coast of North America was one of many Doncker $18,500. The Famous “Beaver Map” 4. Moll, Herman: A NEW AND EXACT MAP OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN ON YE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA. London. [1731]. Engraved map, with period outline color, on two joined sheets. Overall size of joined sheets: 41¼ x 24¾ inches. Expertly repaired tears to folds. Very good. An attractive copy of state four (of five) of the famous Beaver map of the English and French colonies in North America. This map was one of the first and most important carto- graphic documents relating to the ongoing dispute between France and Great Britain over boundaries separating their respective American colonies. The British colonies according to British claims are outlined in red, with the French very lightly outlined in blue. All territory south of the St. Law- rence River and eastern Great Lakes is shown as British. Numerous notations relating to territorial claims, Indian tribes, the fur trade, and the condition of the land cover the face of the map. This map shows the early 18th-century postal routes in the British colonies, and is frequently called the first American postal map. There are four insets, including a large map of coastal South Carolina, a plan of Charleston, and a map of Florida and the Deep South. The most striking feature is the large vignette which gives the map its popular name. It consists of an early view of Niagara Falls, with a colony of beavers at work in the foreground. $35,000. A Primary British Map of Colonial New England 5. [Mead, Braddock, alias John Green]: A MAP OF THE MOST INHABITED PART OF NEW ENGLAND CONTAINING THE PROVINCES OF MASSACHUSETS BAY AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, WITH THE COLONIES OF CONECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND, DIVIDED INTO COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS. [London]: Thomas Jefferys, Nov. 29, 1774. Engraved map, with contemporary outline hand-color, folding, as issued, in 24 sections backed onto linen. Overall size: 39½ x 41½ inches. In fine condition, with some spotting and toning. The largest and most detailed map of New England that had yet of latitude. Importantly, this map contains two highly-detailed car- been published, and one of the great maps of the east coast of tographic insets, one of the city of Boston (upper left), and another America. of Boston Harbor on the lower right sheet. The present map is the This is the grandest, most accurate and detailed map of New third edition and fifth overall state of this work, after the first of England produced during the British colonial period. It depicts the 1755, with little alteration from the previous issue beyond the altered entire region from Long Island Sound up north to the line of 44° 30´ imprint. $15,000. “The most ambitious cartographical work to come from America before the Revolution . .”—Wroth 6. Scull, Nicholas: TO THE HONOURABLE THOMAS PENN AND RICHARD PENN ESQRS . THIS MAP OF THE IMPROVED PART OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. IS HUMBLY DEDICATED BY NICHOLAS SCULL . Philadelphia. 1759. Engraved map on six sheets, joined as three. Each of the three sheets approximately 31 x 21½ inches. Excellent condition, with three short repaired tears, very minor age toning at the sheet edges. Overall in remarkable unsophisticated condition. The first map of Pennsylvania to be published in America. Scull (1687–1761) was born in Philadelphia and is thought to have been apprenticed at a young age to William Penn’s surveyor, Thomas Holme. In 1719 he became deputy sur- veyor of Philadelphia County, eventually ascending to the surveyor generalship of Penn- sylvania in 1748. Dedicated to the colony’s proprietors, this is among the largest and finest maps produced in America to that date. The map depicts Philadelphia, Bucks, Northampton, Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Cumberland, and York Counties, and is based on Scull’s own surveys as well as the reports of others. In addi- tion, some information was gleaned from printed sources, including the important Fry- Jefferson map. The importance and accuracy of this large-scale map is underscored by the fact that a copy of it was among the maps hung by the Board of War at Philadelphia in August 1776, twenty years after the map’s publication. The map was engraved by James Turner (d. 1759), a Philadelphia silver- smith and protégé of Benjamin Franklin. Scull’s 1759 map of Penn- sylvania is very rare, with less than a dozen known institu- tional copies. Only a few have appeared at auction in the last half century, most notably in the sales of the collections of Thomas W. Streeter, Howard E. Welsh, and Laird U. Park (this copy). $185,000. One of three sheets, western sheet shown. A Very Early Manuscript Map of Western Pennsylvania 7. Hooper, Robert Lettis, Jr.: [MANUSCRIPT MAP OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA] . [Np, but likely northwest Pennsylvania. ca. 1770]. Manuscript map on two joined pieces of paper, measuring 15 x 15½ inches total. Old folds. Three very small separations at the folds with no real loss, some wrinkling, else near fine. An intriguing, detailed, and very rare manuscript map of north- just to the north and east of Pittsburgh (which is not shown) in the western Pennsylvania, created by noted surveyor and soldier Robert southwest.