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2202
$2,370.00

GROUP OF FIVE MAPS.

1a) Henri Chatelain, 1719. Carte Qui Contient Une Description Des Iles & Terres Que Les Anglois Possedent Dans L’Amerique Septentrionale, Et En Particuler De La Jamaique. Eight maps on one sheet showing the English colonies in North America including Barbados, Jamaica, New England, Bermuda, part of Canada showing the St. Lawrence River and Hudson Bay, part of the middle colonies showing Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia, and part of the southern colonies showing Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina. Also includes a map of the Caribbean islands. The inset maps of New England and Bermuda with lettered keys. Including a wealth of geographical and historical information in the accompanying text panels. 1b) Henri Chatelain, 1719. Description de la Pêche habillemens, habitations, manières de vivre, superstitions et autres usages des Indiens de la Virginie. Decorative series of 14 views showing the customs, clothing and daily lives of the native Virginians of the 16th Century. Views of native American life in Virginia. Includes manner of dressing, fishing, hunting, making canoes, eating, cooking, living, worshiping, as well as burial practices and ceremonies. Each scene includes an explanation. The descriptions and illustrations are taken from Theodor de Bry’s America, which are engraved from John White’s drawings. The view appeared in Chatelain’s monumental 7 volume Atlas Historique. 2) Carrington Bowles, London, 1779. Bowles’s New Pocket Map of the Atlantic or Western Ocean, Laid down from the Latest Discoveries, and Regulated by Numerous Astronomical Observations. Rare map of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the trade routes from Europe to the various European colonies, including the routes to Virginia and the Carolinas, the Cadiz Galleon Routes and routes to the West Indies. Nice detail along the Atlantic Sea Board and in the Caribbean. 3) Jean-Baptiste Poirson, 1798. CARTE / D’AMERIQUE / DIVISEE EN SES PRINCIPAUX ETATS / Dressee pour l’instruction, et sur les dernieres / Observation Astronomiques. / Par J.B. Poirson Ingenieur Geographe / A PARIS chez Jean, Rue Jean de Beauvais No. 32. / An VI. 1798. V. Stile. A map of the Western Hemisphere with supplement insert of the northern part of North America. 4) Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond D’Alembert, 1779. Carte de la Californie Suivant I la Carte manuscrite de l’Amérique de Mathieu Néron Pecci olen dressée à Florence en 1604. II Sanson 1656. III De l’Isle Amérique Sept. 1700. IV. le Pere Kino Jésuite en 1705. V la Société des Jésuites en 1767. Five maps of California: Inset I. Mathieu Necrou Pecci’s map of 1604 showing California as a peninsula and delineating the journey of Sebastian Vizcaino, 1602-3. Inset II. Sanson 1656 map showing California as an island. Inset III. De l’Isle’s map of 1700. Inset IV. Father Eusebio Kino’s map of 1705 which influenced Guillaume de l’Isle to show California as a peninsula. Inset V. The Jesuit Missions map of 1767 which updates Father Kino’s map. At upper right, “Suppl. 5e Carte.” At lower right, No. 164. 5) Denis Diderot/Didier Robert De Vaugondy Carte, 1772. De La Californie Et Des Pays Nord Ouest separes de L’Asie par le Detroit d’Anian. Diderot’s famous 2 on 1 map showing the two early mappings of the west coast of North America, the first after Vischer, the second after Plantius’ World map. Both show the Straits of Anian, Quivera, Baja and a similarly projected east-west coastline. The larger map inlcudes more detail along the coastline and in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, as well as a truer orientation of Baja California. Diderot’s map were one of the first surveys of comparative cartography, tackling a number of the early misconceptions of the west coast of North America and the Northeastern Asian Coastline. 6) Amerique Septentrionale map of North America with color borders. In pencil script at base of map is the notation “Sandwich Islands shown, Alaska”. SIZE: 1a) Overall: 17-1/4″ x 22″. 1b) Overall: 17-1/4″ x 20-1/2″. 2) Map size: 17-3/4″ x 22″. Sheet size: 21″ x 23-3/4″. 3) Map size: 20″ x 27-1/4″. Sheet size” 21-3/4″ x 28-1/2″. 4) Map size 11-1/2″ x 14-1/4″. Sheet size: 16-1/4″ x 20″. 5) Map size: 11-1/2″ 12-3/4″. Sheet size: 16″ x 19-1/2″. 6) Map size: 17-1/2″ x 22-1/4″. Sheet size: 19″ x 23-3/4″. PROVENANCE: Private Central Maine Collection. CONDITION: 1a) Light toning, otherwise very good. 1b) Light toning overall. Vertical tear at fold with no paper loss. 2) Map retains good color with minimal toning. Sheet edges at top and bottom with small tears and creases. Reinforced at fold. Generally good. 3) Toning and foxing along fold lines. General toning overall with soiling along edges. Note: In pencil script at base of map is inscribed “Farellones Island” is show (unusual on maps on which California coast appears) 1798″. 4)Light toning. Roughness to all four edges of sheet. Three small circular water stains along lower edge of map. Otherwise good. 5) General toning. Edges of sheet with creases, small tears and losses. Otherwise good. 6) Light toning and minor foxing, otherwise good. 49794-14 (2,000-3,000) – Lot 2202


Auction: Fine Art, Asian & Antiques - Winter 2016
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