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USE104 - BELLIN (N) "Carte De La Nouvelle
Angleterre, Nouvelle Yorck et Pensilvanie pour servir
l'Histoire des
Voyages" Paris 1757. Colored outlines. 8X11. Attractive chart
covers the east coast from Delaware Bay to Penobscot Bay, Maine.
Includes a strangely shaped Long Island (NY), Block Is. Martha's
Vineyard and Nantucket. Cape Cod and Boston Bay and all harbors Down
East. Shows many rivers and Indian lands. All primary towns and
settlements including Philadelphia, New York, Albany and Boston. Lake
Ontario and Lake Erie. Very decorative title cartouche with leaf, scroll
and garland motif. |
$425 |
USE105
- BONNE (R) "Carte De La Partie Nord, Des
Etats Unis, De I'Amerique Septentrionale" Paris ca.1780. Colored
outlines. 8½X11½ Detailed and attractive map extends from Maine to
Chesapeake Bay. Includes Long Island (NY), Martha's Vineyard and
Nantucket. Cape Cod and Boston Bay, and all harbors Down East. Shows
rivers and . elevations and all principal towns and settlements and
Indian lands. Locates Annapolis, Baltimore, New York, Albany Boston and
Salem, MA. Lake Ontario and Lake Erie appear at top of map. |
$325 |
USE109
- JOSEPH de LaPORTE (1713-1779) "Carte de la
Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York, Nouvelle Jersey et Pensilvanie"
Paris 1780. Colored. 7X8½. Attractive small map of the northeast coast
of America from the coast of New Jersey south of Barnegat Bay, to New
York Harbor & Long Island. Includes Cape Cod showing Nantucket,
Elizabeth Islands and a fanciful depiction of Narragansett Bay in Rhode
Island. Shows Buzzards Bay called Monument Bay. Locates Boston &
Cape Ann. Portsmouth (N. H.) & Cape Casko (Casco Bay, Maine). Inland
depicts major towns in Massachusetts, called New England; & in New
York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania. Vermont & New Hampshire are not
named and just appear as part of New England. |
$275 |
USE111
- U. S. COAST SURVEY "Atlantic Coast of the
United States" Sheet 11. Nantucket to Cape Hatteras'' Wash. 1863.
22½X27. B/W. Large detailed chart shows soundings lights, inlets, capes,
cold wall, axis of the Gulf Stream, warm and cool bands, bottoms. |
$175 |
USE114
- BLUNT (E. & G. W.) "The Cotidal Lines
and the tracks of coasters between New York and Ports to the Southward
and to the Eastward by A. D. Bache. Supt. U. S. Coast Survey.. " N.Y.
1857. Col, 18½X15½. Region covered from Halifax (NS) to Key West (FL)
showing the tracks and lines up and down the eastern coast and to the
Bahamas and Bermuda. |
$125 |
USE115
- U. S. COAST SURVEY "General Chart of the
Coast. No. VI From Cape May to Cape Henry." Wash. 1862. 27X32¼. B/W.
Very detailed coastal chart from Delaware Bay to Chesapeake Bay with
many soundings along and offshore regions. All inlets, capes, bays and
islands noted along the Delaware and Virginia coast. Lighthouses,
beacons, light-vessels. Tides, bottoms. Note on magnetic variation. |
$210 |
USE117
- R. BONNE "L'Isle de Terre-Neuve, L'Acadie,
ou La Nouvelle Ecosse Isle St. Jean, et la Partie Orientale Du
Canada" Paris 1780. Colored outlines. 8X12. Very detailed map
covers the northeast states from Long Island, N. Y. to Newfoundland and
Nova Scotia. Locates all principal harbors, capes, bays & islands
off the coast of New York and the New England States. Includes Block Is.
Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The St. Lawrence River and a portion of
Canada. Shows a small section of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and locates
Philadelphia, New York, Albany and Lake Champlain. Map is finely
engraved with a good depiction of off-shore banks. |
$235 |

USE123 - R. BONNE
“Les Etats Unis De L'Amerique Septentrionel
contenant en outre, Les Isles Royales, De Terre Neuve, De St.
Jean et L'Acadie avec partie Du Canada, De La Louisiane et De La
Floride. Par M. Bonne. Ingenieur-Hydrographe
de la Marine.. 1781.”
Paris. 1782. Colored.
12½X8½. This finely engraved & detailed map is one of the first to
recognize America's eastern regions as an
independent entity under the name United States (Etats Unis) 7 years
before a national government was formed in 1789 under President
Washington. Includes the Bahamas (Isles Lucayes) & the northern tip of
Cuba. Depicts harbors & offshore islands from Canada to Florida. An
excellent map from the Atlas Portatif by Abbé Grenet and dedicated to
the University of Paris. |
$225 |
USE129
- A. SARTINE “Carte Reduite Des Cotes
Orientales De L'Ameriique Septentrionale Contenant Celles des Provinces
de New-York et de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Celles de l'Acadie ou
Nouvelles Ecosse, de L'Ile Royale, de L'Ile St.Jean, avec L'Interieure
du Pays. Dressee au Depot Generale des Cartes, Plans et Journaux de la
Marine. Pour Le Service Des Vaisseaux Francais. Par Ordre de M. De
Sartine, Conseiller D'Etat. Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat ayant le
Departement de la Marine.” Paris. 1780. Colored. This fine chart
prepared under the direction of Antoine Sartine, Minister of Marine in
Paris for the use of the French Navy when they came over to America to
help in the Revolutionary War and its aftermath, shows both
hydrographical and topographical details, and follows the coast from
northern New Jersey to New York and Long Island, Cape Cod, Boston and
Massachusetts Bay, to Cape Elizabeth, Maine and the Maine coast to the
Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia & Cape Breton Island & St. Jean (Prince Edward
Island.) The chart is finely engraved and intensely detailed showing
harbors along the coast and rivers, lakes & mountains inland. Many depth
soundings are drawn in sea areas and the offshore banks are clearly
located for the use of mariners approaching the coast. The chart
includes a compass rose with fleur-de-lys pointer along with 6 others
all with rhumb lines radiating across the chart's surface. Includes the
Seal of the Depot de la Marine, in Paris. A scarce chart in fine
condition. |
$2,500 |

USE132
- DEPT OF THE NAVY “Atlantic Coast of the United States. Buzzards
Bay to Cape Henlopen”. Wash. D.C. 1884 (1903) B/W. 45X30. Large vertical
navigational chart covers the coast from Martha's Vineyard and Buzzard's
Bay, Massachusetts, to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, the coast of
Connecticut to New York Harbor and the coast of New Jersey down to
Delaware Bay. Chart then continues down to Chesapeake Bay, Cape Henry,
Albemarle Sound, Pamlico Sound, Cape Hatteras down to Cape Lookout in
North Carolina. Includes table of 49 lighthouses along the coast, many
very detailed depth soundings; courses and both topographical and
hydrographical details. Chart has been professionally backed on linen
for future preservation. Includes some old penciled plot lines. |
$450 |
USE133
- W. M. CALPINE “Map of the Various Channels for Conveying the Trade
of the North West to the Atlantic Sea-board Exhibiting the Tributaries
and Drainage of the Trade with each and the Effect of the Enlargement of
the Erie Canal Illustrating the Position taken by William J. McAlpine C.
E. in his Annual Report as State Engineer and Surveyor of the State of
New York. 1853.” New York 1853. B/W with canal routes outlined in color.
21X26. William McAlpine was a well-known engineer and surveyor whose
primary interest lay in mapping the trade routes across the North
American Continent by rail and canal in the early 19th century. This
fine map shows the connection with the Erie Canal, and locates the
tracks of the proposed railroads crossing from eastern towns to the
Pacific Northwest. The map also includes a fine depiction of the Great
Lakes and shows the eastern coast from New Brunswick, Canada down to
Charleston S. C., Savannah Georgia and the St. John's River in Florida.
In the west the map shows Indian Territory and a portion of Minnesota,
Iowa and Arkansas. Map was drawn by David Vaughan & published by J. E.
Gavit, Albany, New York. |
$250 |
USE134
- P. VAN DER Aa “Jonathan Dickenson's Ramspoedige Reystogt van
Jamaika na Pensylvania Nagespoord.” Leiden. c. 1714. Colored. 6X9. This
curious little map oriented with north on the left side, was published
by Pieter Van Der Aa (1659-1733) a prolific map publisher and bookseller
of Leiden; and shows a somewhat fanciful depiction of the Southeast
United States from Nantucket Island and the Elizabeth Islands in
Massachusetts, down to New York, Staten Island and Long Island,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Carolina, Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and
the Bahamas. The title is on a stone pillar in a landscape scene with
natives watching the crew of a beached sailing vessel, carry items
ashore from the ship, with others resting around a camp fire. The map
also includes an early depiction of Lake Erie and Delaware and
Chesapeake Bays with the city of Philadelphia spelled “Filadelphia”. St.
Augustine is noted on the coast of Florida & the Bahamas are called
Lucayae Ins. In the 18th century the works of Pieter Van Der Aa were not
considered prime quality maps, as many of them were derivatives of the
works of other cartographers, but they were always extremely decorative
which made them ultimately collector's items despite their inaccuracies!
From “Naaukeurige Versameling der Gedenk-Waardigste Zee en Land-Reysen.” |
$1,285 |
“LETTRES
D'UN CULTIVATEUR AMERICAIN”
“Letters from an American Farmer”
Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crevecoeur,
(1735-1813) the author of “Letters from an
American Farmer” was born in France, of
well-to-do parents who owned extensive lands in Normandy, and who sent
him to colleges in France and England at an early age to learn
mathematics, surveying, geography, and cartography. When he was 20 in
1755, he went to America to join in the French and Indian Wars as a
surveyor. After the war he settled in British America, and found work as
a trader and surveyor and traveled extensively from New England down to
Virgina and the Carolinas. In the late 1760's he moved to upstate New
York, married an American girl and became a farmer and an American
citizen calling himself Hector St. John. He remained a Loyalist
throughout the Revolutionary War but at its conclusion he went back to
France where he wrote his monumental work titled “Lettres
D'Un Cultivateur Americain”, addressed to a
friend in Europe and published the first 2 volumes in 1782. The letters
contained acute observations about Americans and American customs and
agriculture, and the development of the new United States. In 1783 he
returned to America, having been sent to New York by King Louis XVI, as
Consul General to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He knew most of
the prominent statesmen of his time, like Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and
Madison, and Jefferson attended the wedding of de Crevecoeur's daughter,
Fanny. The “Letters”
were publlished in 2 volumes and contained 6 maps, of which 4 are shown
below, and 2 others of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard are depicted on
our Massachusetts webpage.
After the 1st English editions in 1782 and
1783, a French Edition was published in 1785 and another in 1787. . When
the French edition came out de Crevecoeur was back in France working on
trade relations between France and America while trying to organize
a packet boat service across the Atlantic. Due
to his vast experience as a surveyor and cartographer, de Crevecoeur's
maps include much updated information about America's frontiers which
were being pushed steadily westward as settlers traveled into the heart
of the country and he observed and noted on his maps the territories and
villages of the Indian Nations and their extent. When he died in 1813,
he
left behind one of the best accounts of America in the late 18th
century. |
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USE135
- MICHEL - GUILLAUME St. JEAN de CREVECOEUR “Carte Generale Des
Etats De Virginie, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvanie, Nouveau Jersey, New
York, Conncecticut Et Isle de Rhodes. Ainsi que des Lacs Erie, Ontario,
Et Champlain d'Apres la Carte Ameriquaine De Louis Evans et La Carte
Anglaise de Thomas Jefferys. Geographe du Roi d'Angleterre, pour Les
Lettres d'Un Cultivateur Ameriquain.” Paris 1787. B/W. 18½X25½. This
very detailed map published in de Crevecoeur's "Letters From an American
Farmer" in 1787 was based on Lewis Evan's famous map of 1755. On the map
de Crevecoeur includes updated information in New England particularly
in Vermont, where he located Dartmouth College, Putney, Bennington &
Westminster., though New Hampshire is still devoid of names. He shows
the eastern coast from Boston, south to New York, Delaware Bay , the
Chesapeake River and Cape Henry, and he includes Lakes Erie and Ontario
and shows the St. Claire River flowing south to Lake Erie locating Fort
Detroit. An inset map in top left shows Lake Michigan and the Portage of
Chikago. Of particular interest the map shows part of the extent of the
western frontier depicting Ohio and the Ohio River and the northern
regions of Kentucky which is named a State and includes Louisville. De
Crevecoeur's interest in the Indian tribes is evidenced by the many
references to them on the map. This handsome map is considered to be one
of the most significant and important maps of America's Colonial Period.
(Partially remargined on right side, with a few light folds otherwise
fine condition. |
$1,600 |
USE136
- MICHEL-GUILLAUME St. JEAN de CREVECOEUR “Carte Generale Des
Etata-Unis de L'Amerique Septentrionale rensermant aussi quelques
Provinces adjantes pour Les Lettres d'Un Cultivateur Ameriquain.” Paris.
1787. Colored. 10X16½. This map prepared under the direction of de
Crevecoeur for his volumes '“Letters from an American Farmer” shows the
5 New England States (Maine was still part of Massachusetts) and the
southern States from New York down to Georgia. The Great Lakes are
depicted still in somewhat speculative outlines, and the map is one of a
relatively few 18th century maps of Colonial America to show "Frankland"
a region named by settlers in honor of Benjamin Franklin that
encompassed an area that is now part of Tennessee, Illinois and
Missouri. On de Crevecoeur's map it is situated near St. Louis, Missouri
and just west of the Mississippi River. In 1772 the settlers established
the Watauga Association, with an elected board of officials, wiith the
intent to develop the region into a State. At the start of the
Revolutionary War the settlers petitioned to be annexed to North
Carolina. But at the end of the War in 1784 North Carolina ceded the
territory to the Confederate Congress whereupon a constitution was
adopted, a legislature elected and a land speculator named John Sevier
(1745-1815) was elected as Governor. Later that year William Cocke,
representing the settlers went to Congress to seek formal recognition of
Frankland as a State. But this came to nothing as disagreements arose
between those who wanted to become part of North Carolina and those who
wanted Statehood. John Sevier served his four year term as Governor and
in 1788 Frankland was once again annexed to North Carolina, which lasted
until 1790 when it became subsumed into the “Territory of the United
States, South of Ohio.” De Crevecoeur's map also takes in part of
Louisiana showing New Orleans and the Gulf Coast over to Florida. He
also included a listing of the States depicted on the map with a
notation of their Capitals. Engraved by prominent French engraver,
Pierre Francois Tardieu, the map was published in “Lettres d'un
Cultivateur Ameriquain” in the French 1787 edition. ( Ref. The Map
Collector. No 72. Autumn 1995. Page 12. “Maps Marking the American State
of Franklin”, by Ashley Baynton-Williams.) |
$1,200 |
USE137
- M. G. St. JEAN De CREVECOEUR (3 part map) 1.) “Equisse Des Rivieres
Muskinghum et Grand Castor (Beaver) ” 2.) “Equisse Du Sioto” and 3.)
“Equisse de la Riviere Du Grand Castor, pour les Lettres d'un
Cultivateur Ameriquain.” Paris. 1787. Colored. 9½X20. After St. Jean de
Crevecoeur came to America from France to work as a surveyor in the
French & Indian Wars, he stayed on and settled in the Northeast as a
farmer during the Revolutionary War. During this time he became
interested in all aspects of Colonial America, particularly in surveying
and mapping the lands west of the Ohio River. He had obviously seen a
map drawn by Thomas Hutchins in 1766 called “A Map of the Country on the
Ohio and Muskingum Rivers”, which showed the area that Hutchins had
explored as an Indian agent, trader & engineer. In “Lettres d'un
Cultivateur Ameriquain” or “Letters from An American Farmer” that de
Crevecoeur wrote during 1782-1787, he included this interesting 3 part
map showing the Muskinghum, Siotto & Beaver Rivers, all tributaries of
the Ohio River, & the area explored by Thomas Hutchins after General
Gage had ordered him to make a careful survey of the Ohio and
Mississippi Rivers including the Gulf Coast to Pensacola. This was a
time when new forts had to be built and Indian trade encouraged as the
frontiers kept being pushed westward by settlers, hunters and traders.
As a skilled surveyor, de Crevecoeur was intensely interested in the
potential for westward expansion in Colonial America and in drawing
accurate surveys of the newly expanded territories & Indian lands. This
3 part map is a fine example of de Crevecoeur's work as a highly skilled
surveyor and mapmaker. |
$375 |
USE138
- M. G. de CREVECOEUR “Esquisse d'un Pont de 123 pieds de long et de
52 d'elevation, que vient de construire sur la Brance Orientale de la
Nouvelle Tamise appelee la Riviere de Shetuket dans le voisinage de
Norwich. Le Sieur Elias Bliss, Charpentier de la Nouvelle Londres, dans
l'Etat de Connecticut.” Paris 1787. Colored. 7X9. De Crevecoeur, who was
born in France in 1735 spent a good part of his life in Colonial
America, first acting as a surveyor during the French & Indian Wars,
then as a farmer in the early years of the Revolutionary War. At the end
of the War the King of France, Louis XVI appointed de Crevecoeur Consul
to the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut which gave him an
opportunity to visit those three States and make surveys of interesting
things he encountered during his travels. In Connecticut he was
particularly interested in a bridge over an Eastern Branch of the Thames
River built by Elias Bliss a carpenter of New London. The bridge went
over the Shetuket River near Norwich. and was 123 feet long and 52 feet
high When de Crevecoeur returned to France to publish his famous work
“Letters from an American Farmer” in 1782-87, he included his sketch of
the bridge in one the volumes The fine detail of the sketch shows de
Crevecoeur's work at it's meticulous best. . |
$185 |
USE141
- G. ELDRIDGE “Chart B. New London to Gay Head.” Boston. 1905. B/W.
27X48. Splendid chart covers an area from New London, Connecticut and
Fisher's Island to Stonington, Watch Hill Point and Point Judith, Rhode
Island. Depicts the entrance to Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor and
locates the Sakonnet River and Sakonnet Point, Cuttyhunk, Nashawena, and
Pasque Islands, Gay Head and No Man's Land. Also depicts the eastern end
of Gardiner's Island and Montauk Point (Long Island) and Block Island
with an inset chart of Block Island Harbor. Hundreds of depth soundings
are indicated in the Sound and sea areas, and the chart includes
courses, and sailing directions and navigational notes on tides,
bottoms, anchorages, buoys and beacons, rocks and other dangers. The
chart has some light staining in the sea area on the right side not
affecting the image areas, and has been rebacked on the right side with
a fine linen paper backing. This is a fine chart.
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$1,100 |
USE143
- C. BOTTA “Carta Delle Provincie Settentrion. li Degli Stati Uniti”
Milan. 1814. Colored. 12¼X19. This colorful map of America's northeast
States is attributed to C. Botta, an Italian cartographer and based on
maps of the same region by Antonio Zatta (fl.1750-1804) published in
Venice in 1778. The place names on the map are in English juxtaposed
with names in Italian, such as Capo Cod next to Chatham, and Golfo De
Delawara next to Wilmington etc. The map is very finely engraved and
depicts many place names throughout New England, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York and shows many roads connecting
major cities and towns. Includes Lakes Ontario and Erie, mountain ranges
and rivers, and harbors, bays and inlets along the coast. The map was
issued folded down to octavo size, but has since been pressed flat and
is in very nice condition. From "History of the War of Independence of
the United States of America." Published in Boston 1826 by Harrison
Grey. |
$275 |
USE146
- T. C. LOTTER “Pennsylvania. Nova Jersey Et Nova York Cum Regioniibus
Ad Fluvium Delaware in America Sitis. Nova Delineatione Ob Oculos
Prosita per Tob. Conr..Lotter Geographum. Aug. Vind.”
Augsburg c. 1745. Colored. 23X19½. Very handsome map depicts hills &
rivers throughout New Jersey & includes Philadelphia & part of
Pennsylvania and Delaware Bay from it's entrance at Cape May. The Hudson
or North River is shown flowing into New York Harbor, with Long Island &
Long Island Sound off the coast of Connecticut. Evidently, wanting to
include the coastal northeast regions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire & Maine the cartographer/engraver distorted them & squeezed
them into the top right side of the map sheet, with Cape Cod shown
coming out of Connecticut. In the lower right is a listing of places on
the map such as major cities, creeks, hills, savages (Indians) with
their German/English meanings & in top left is a large title cartouche
depicting the bounty of the New World, which it was thought may have
been drawn on the map to encourage German settlers to come to America.
The map includes a decorative compass rose, and is one of the earliest
maps to show New Jersey on such a large scale. Finely engraved with
early color and in very nice condition. Published by Tobias Conrad
Lotter (1717-1777) Augsburg c. 1745 in his "Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae E.
Geographicae." |
$4,250 |
USE147
- J. JANSSON “NOVA ANGLIA, NOUVM BELGIUM, ET VIRGINIA.”
Amstd. 1636. Colored. 15X19½. This very attractive early map is one of
the first maps to show Lake Superior in it's entirety, & off it, &
connected by rivers are 3 other Lakes which may be Lakes Michigan, Huron
& Lake Erie. Another Lake is pictured at the head of the Delaware River
but at this point the names of the Lakes are open to conjecture. The
North River (later Hudson) is depicted flowing south to New York Harbor
where the names Manbattes (Manhattan) & N. Amsterdam are printed on a
map for the first time. Manhattan's East River is depicted with the name
Helle Gaet (Hell Gate) along it's course & Long Island is shown as 3
islands while Long Island is called Archipelago. Further up the coast
beyond Cape Cod is Nieuw Engeland where present day Maine is called
Norembegua. From New York south the map extends to Chesapeake Bay with
it's entrance at Cape Charles & Cape Henry & from there the coastline
continues southward to Virginia & North Carolina. An important feature
of the map shows how little was known of America's Northeast regions
when the English and Dutch first settled colonies along the coast, &
when this map was printed the Dutch cartographers had not had access to
Champlain's maps of the Northeast. The map has a handsome title
cartouche in upper left decorated with scrolls, leaves, shells & ribbon
motifs & in lower right is a mileage scale with the author's name
Johannes Janssonius Excudit printed at the base. The map is from the
Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Atlas. English Edition with English text
on verso by Jan De Laet (1593-1649). A beautiful, classic map in fine
condition. (ref. “The Mapping of North America” by Philip Burden. #247.) |
$2,500 |
USE148
- H. MOLL “A Map of the English Plantations in America.”
London. 1695. Colored. 12X7. Very early map shows America's east coast
from Boston Harbor in New England & New York with Long Island, down to
Pennsylvania, Maryland & Virginia & the Carolinas. Depicts Florida & the
Gulf Coast & the Caribbean with Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola & the West
Indies islands. Includes Mexico & Central America, Panama & the Northern
tip of South America. The map has text below it and on the back. It was
engraved on pages 479 & 480 in “Thesaurus Geographicus. A New Body of
Geography or a Complete Description of the Earth.” with maps by Herman
Moll.(1654-1732) & printed by Abel Swall & Timothy Child at the Sign of
the Unicorn at the West End of St. Paul's Churchyard, London. 1695.
This is a scarce late 17th century map in good condition.
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$850 |
USE149
- S. HOLLAND “The Provinces of New York and New Jersey: with part of
Pensilvania & the Province of Quebec. Drawn by Major Holland, Surveyor
General of the Northern District in America. Corrected & Improved from
the Original Materials by Govern. Pownall. Member of Parliament 1776.”
London. 1776. Colored. 52½X21. This large, striking map of New York &
New Jersey with parts of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts &
Quebec includes 3 inset charts 1.) Plan of Amboy, 2.) A Chart of the
Mouth of Hudson's River from Sandy Hook to New York, & 3.) A Plan of the
City of New York. The City plan showing churches, meeting houses,
hospital, markets etc. was one of the few street block plans available
at the time & the map itself was used by both the British & American
forces in the Revolutionary War. The map also depicts the St. Lawrence
River with its lakes & tributaries flowing down to New York State and
Lake Ontario. Major Samuel Holland (`1728-1801) who drew this map was a
Dutch military engineer who moved to England in 1754 & joined the Royal
American Regiment for service in America's northeast territories. He
surveyed parts of Quebec & New England & New York & became the Surveyor
General for the Northern District of North America in 1764. The map was
first issued in 1775 & went through a number of editions, each one with
corrections & updates as new information became available. This map is
the fifth & final state with revisions attributed to Governor Pownall.
It was printed in London for Robert Sayer & John Bennett on 17th August.
1776. A note at the base of the map says “Longitude West from London
According to an Observation taken at New York by Mr. Burnet in 1723.”
The title in lower right is placed over a wooded shoreline scene &
draped with foliage. A compass rose is drawn above it. (The map is in 2
sheets joined & has had some repairs to the back. A corner section in
top left has been replaced & old folds have been strengthened. Repairs
are not visible on the front which is clean & free from abrasions or
stains & only has the indications of the old folds.) Ref. Tooley's
Dictionary of Mapmakers. E-J. Page. 354. A scarce map with great
historical significance.
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$2,750 |
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