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Catalogue
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America
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91.
[MAP]. BLAEU, IO[ANNES]. Extrema Americae Versus Boream,
ubi Terra Nova Francia, Adjacentique. [Amsterdam, 1662]. $1,675
Engraved map; 45.2 cm x 57 cm (17¼"x22½");
full contemporary colour; cartouches are also in full colour; trimmed
close to neat line; two small worm holes neatly repaired on verso;
generally browned, with some foxing; few chips in margins; Latin
text on verso.
Koeman I, p. 226, no. 611; Potter, p. 148; vide Phillips, Atlases,
471 (Dutch edition); Burden 371; Kershaw, pp. 142-145. From Blaeu's
"Atlas Maior," and the only map in the atlas which details
Canada separately from the rest of the continent. The title cartouche
reflects the economic potential of the area, depicting fishermen
with nets and large codfish. Blaeu took much of his information
for this map from Champlain's map of thirty years earlier. Because
of the fire in 1672 in Blaeu's workshop, only five issues of the
Atlas containing maps of America were published, making this one
of the hardest to find of any maps appearing in his atlases.
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92.
[MAP]. BLAEU, WILLEM JANSZ. Insulae Americanae in Oceano
Septentrionali, cum Terris Adiacentibus. [Amsterdam, 1638]. $2,100
Engraved map; 38.2 cm x 52.3 cm (15"x20½"); early
colour; lightly toned; three small spots of foxing, 1 in margin
and 2 in image. Overall, very good.
Burden 242; Koeman I, p. 94. This is a derivative of Hessel Gerritsz'
chart of c. 1631, and is from the second [French] edition of Le
Théatre du Monde. "Cartographically the map draws on
the extremely rare chart by Hessel Gerritsz, c. 1631. The area of
coverage is exactly the same with the exception of Blaeu's addition
of the west coast of Central America. The nomenclature of the North
American part is virtually identical, the only notable addition
being the naming of Virginia. It reflects the firsthand knowledge
of Gerritsz during his voyage to South America and the West Indies
undertaken in 1628."- (Burden).
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93.
[MAP]. DE WIT, FREDERICK. Novissima et Accuratissima Totius
Americæ Descriptio. Amsterdam, [c.1670]. First state. $6,000
Copper-engraved map; 49.2 cm x 58.4 cm (19" x 23"); original
colour; reinforced on verso of fold; browned at margins; small transference
of colour from upper left to upper right corner; overall a very
good copy of a fairly scarce map.
Tooley, "Mapping of America," p. 120, 30; McLaughlin,
"Mapping of California," 49-1; Wheat, "Transmississippi,"
52; Koeman, "Atlantes," Wit 11. This is the first of three
states, with galleons ploughing the seas, and without New Guinea,
the Solomon Islands, and the Land of Quiros, as well as Fretum Aniani
and Terra Esonis, which appeared in the second state of 1680. This
is a revised edition of the Visscher map of the same year; the figures
in the upper left corner and those in the cartouche have been reversed;
"the single lake is now changed into the five Great Lakes,
two still open (at their western ends), and California still shown
as an island now has an indented northern coastline..." -(Tooley).
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94.
[MAP]. JANSSON, JOAN. Perv. Amsterdam, 1630. $800
Engraved map; 39.4 cm x 49.5 cm (15½"x19½");
early colour; lightly toned; margins little frayed, with a little
sporadic foxing; repair to lower portion of centrefold, causing
a whitish effect. French text on verso.
Koeman II, p. 453, no. 99. With the sign mark "ppppp"
on verso in manuscript (vide Koeman: "Some of the signatures
on the text pages have been altered in manuscript.") First
published in Blaeu's Appendix.
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An Early Map of British Canada
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95. [MAP]. LAURIE & WHITTLE. A New and Correct Map of
the British Colonies in North America. Comprehending Eastern Canada
with the Province of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and The
Government of Newfoundland: with the Adjacent States of New England,
Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. London, 1794. Third
state. $1,350
47.5 cm x 65.5 cm (18-3/4" x 25-3/4"); engraved map in
contemporary colour; lightly browned at margins; very good, with
the Beaver & Scroll cartouche also coloured.
Kershaw III: 717; Phillips, Maps: 682; Stevens & Tree 65(c).
Based on the original Sayer & Bennett map from the American
Military Pocket Atlas of 1776, which was later (1788) reprinted
by Sayer under this title, with several additions and changes to
the plate. These include the deletion of the running title, a change
to the note below the cartouche, and the re-engraving of Anticosti
Island, the Magdalen Islands, and Cape Breton. The present map,
the third state, is identical with the second of 1788, with the
only change being the Laurie & Whittle imprint and the date
in the cartouche.
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