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“THE GREATEST OF EARLY AMERICAN MAPS”
THOMAS HOLME,
[Across the Top]: A Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America. Begun by Wil: Penn Proprietary and Governour thereof Anno 1681. [Decorative cartouche to right]: A Map of the Province of Pennsilvania. Containing the three Countyes of Chester, Philadelphia, & Bucks, as far as yet Surveyed and Laid out….
The “greatest of early American maps … a masterpiece” (Corcoran).
“This monumental work is without question the finest printed cartographic document relating to North America to be published to date.” (Burden). No other English American colony was mapped in the seventeenth century on such a large scale, and in such amazing detail.
Item #22133, PRICE ON REQUEST
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Jefferys’s 1776 American Atlas: The Best of the Century
THOMAS JEFFERYS,
Atlas. The American Atlas; or, a Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America; Wherein are Delineated at Large its Several Regions, Countries, States, and Islands; and Chiefly the British Colonies.... London: Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1776. 22 engraved maps, on 29 sheets, all with original outline color, expertly bound to style in 18th-century diced Russian gilt leather. A very fine and complete copy. The book with maps folded, 15¾ x 22¼ in.
Item #20862.99, $175,000
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1732 Agreement to the ‘Lord Baltimore – Penn Dispute’ Including the Rare Senex Map
[BALTIMORE-PENN DISPUTE],
True Copies of I. The Agreement between Lord Baltimore and Messieurs Penn, dated 10 May 1732. II. The Commissions given to the Commissioners to mark out the Lines between Maryland, and Pensilvania and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware. III. The Return or Report of the Commissioners on both Sides, made 24 Nov. 1733. Shewing for what Reasons the Lines were not mark’d out within the Time appointed for that Purpose. [Docket title]. London: 1734-35. Pamphlet, 8 pp., First edition.
The agreement – including the map – that ultimately ended the MD-PA border dispute.
Item #20882.99, $155,000
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1674 Dutch New-York: Allard’s Totius Neobelgii Nova
HUGO ALLARD,
Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula. [Amsterdam: ca. 1674]. Rare second state in original color. Plate: 18½ x 21⅝ in.; sheet size: 19⅝ x 23⅜ in.
Rare ‘proof’ state, one of only a handful. Shows rare ‘Restitutio view’ of New-York and played a part in the Penn-Baltimore Dispute.
Item #20911.99, $39,500
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1790 First American Chart of the Gulf of Mexico
JOHN NORMAN,
A New General Chart of the West Indies… [Boston, 1790].
Item #20916.99, $36,000
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Morse’s American Geography – The First American Work of Its Kind
REV. JEDIDIAH MORSE,
The American Geography; or, a view of the present situation of the United States of America containing ... A particular description of Kentucky, the Western Territory, the Territory South of Ohio, and Vermont ... with a view of the British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch dominions, on the continent, and in the West Indies, and of Europe, Asia, and Africa ... A new edition.
Most desirable edition, containing twenty-five maps, including the famous Filson map of Kentucky. Most copies of Morse have only three maps; this rare copy (evidently one of a special printing), has 25, one of them being the rare Filson map of Kentucky. In this respect, it is more desirable than the original 1789 edition.
Item #20912.99, $35,000
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1776 “Holster Atlas” - Used by British Officers in the Revolution
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] [ROBERT SAYER AND JOHN BENNETT],
The American Military Pocket Atlas; Being an Approved Collection of Correct Maps, Both General and Particular, of the British Colonies; Especially Those Which Now Are, or Probably May Be the Theatre of War…. London, [1776].
This atlas, designed for British officers to use in the field, includes the “maps that the British high command regarded as providing essential topographical information in the most convenient form” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg). The publishers claimed that their work would fit into an officer’s pocket, but it was more often carried in a holster. The present copy was bound in a more easily managed size with the maps cut, mounted on linen, and folded into a quarto-sized binding.
Item #20869.99, $29,000
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A Seminal Map of New Jersey, Showing a New York Border Dispute Finally Settled
WILLIAM FADEN,
Map. Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, Commonly Called The Jerseys. London, England, December 1, 1777. 23½ x 33 in. Fine condition, in black and gilt frame, 31¾ x 40½ in.
The Royal cartographer steps in to clean up New Jersey.
Item #22144, $26,500
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1846 Thomas G. Bradford & Samuel G. Goodrich’s Universal Atlas
THOMAS G. BRADFORD & SAMUEL G. GOODRICH,
A Universal, Illustrated Atlas, exhibiting a geographical, statistical and historical view of the World. Boston: Charles D. Strong, 1846. 13 ⅞ x 17 ⅝”. Tinted lithographic additional title with decorative surround, tinted lithographic frontispiece. 44 hand-colored engraved maps and 5 city plans.
Item #20913.99, $22,500
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The Map Used by British Strategists, First Published During the French and Indian War
LEWIS EVANS and THOMAS POWNALL,
Map. A Map of the Middle British Colonies in North America...with the Addition of New England, and the bordering Parts of Canada, London, March 25, 1776. 1 p. 21½ x 34 in. Three-part folding map with hand-colored colony borders.
Item #22136, $16,500
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1775 Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England
[THOMAS JEFFERYS],
Map: “A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and new Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties and Townships The whole composed from Actual Survey and its Situation adjusted by Astronomical Observations.” Augsburg, Germany: Tobias Conrad Lotter, 1775.
An excellent example of Thomas Jefferys’ famous map of New England, in four unjoined sheets as issued. Published in Augsburg by Tobias Conrad Lotter, this edition is always more richly colored than the English Jefferys. Lotter was one of the leading German mapmakers of the 18th century, and his edition of the map is particularly useful in that it preserves the original English language text for the title, notations, tables and placenames.
Jefferys’ A Map of the Most Inhabited part of New England was the first accurate survey of the area and one of the earliest large scale regional maps of any part of America. First issued in 1755, it continued to be published in various forms until after the Revolutionary War.
The map includes an inset plan at upper left of Boston that shows the city at the start of the Revolution, and a second inset of Boston Harbor near the title. There is a large finely engraved vignette below the title that shows the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock.
Item #8904, $9,500
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Map of Virginia and Maryland, 1676
[JOHN SPEED]. FRANCIS LAMB,
A Map of Virginia and Maryland, London: Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, [1676], 21⅜ x 17 in.
Item #21016.99, $7,250
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