A MAP OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA WITH THE FRENCH AND SPANISH SETTLEMENTS ADJACENT THERETO
Popple, Henry
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Engraved map by William Henry Toms on fifteen double-page and five single-page sheets, mounted on guards throughout, with the double- page key map by Toms, and the contents leaf tipped in as a fold-out from the rear free endpaper. Folio. Original half calf and marbled paper boards, raised bands. Boards with moderate wear and rubbing, loss to marbled paper in a few places, joints starting to separate but still strong, spine ends chipped. Bookplate and pencil notes on front pastedown (see below), light rumpling to endpapers. Minor worming at lower margin near gutter on the first few leaves (no text affected), one instance of slight staining, but overall very clean internally. Near fine. The Thomas W. Streeter copy of the first large-scale map of North America, and the first printed map to show the thirteen colonies, in original boards, complete with the separate key map and the contents leaf. Henry Popple produced this map under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, Spanish, and French colonies. "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent" - Goss, p.122. The present copy of Popple's map would have been particularly useful in these early disputes. Benjamin Franklin, on May 22, 1746, ordered two copies of this map, "one bound the other in sheets," for the Pennsylvania Assembly. It was the only map of sufficient size and grandeur available - and the map is on a grand scale: if actually assembled it would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Its coverage extends from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to about ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. Several of the sections are illustrated with handsome pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence, Bermuda, and a number of others. "Little is known of Henry Popple except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map, his only known cartographic work" - McCorkle. Mark Babinski has made a detailed study of the issues and states of the Popple map. This copy is in Babinski's state 5: the imprint on sheet 20 reads, "London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms 1733"; and sheet one includes the engraved figure "1" in the upper left corner just above the intersection of the two neat lines. The very rare small format table of contents is present. The key map is in Babinski's state 1, with only Toms' name below the border at the bottom and no additional place names in the seventeen small insets. Thomas W. Streeter's pencil notes on the front pastedown are significant with regard to the quality and provenance of this copy. He writes that "this fine copy in original binding and broad margins with the key map and leaf of contents attached to the final blank leaf [was acquired] from Roland Tree of Henry Stevens, Sept. 18, 1941. It was exchanged for a rebound copy lacking the key map and the leaf of contents and with narrow margins.I gave Stevens the former copy plus $75. The large key map is of considerable importance and I believe is somewhat rare as is the leaf of contents." Interestingly, Streeter's own notes on the provenance of this copy are at odds with the note in the catalogue of his sale, which states that he acquired this copy from Levinson in 1957. This copy sold at the Streeter sale to Sessler's in 1967 for $5250, acquired for H. Richard Dietrich Jr., and has remained in his Dietrich American Foundation since then. Mark Babinski, HENRY POPPLE'S 1733 MAP (New Jersey, 1998) (ref). BROWN, EARLY MAPS OF THE OHIO VALLEY 14. CUMMING, THE SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS 216, 217 (refs). DEGREES OF LATITUDE 24, state 4 (b. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM40340C
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Titel: A MAP OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA WITH ...
Verlag: Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms, London
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Carte Particuliere de l'Amerique Septentrionale. [Secondary title:] A Map of the British Empire in America with the French, Spanish and the Dutch Settlements Adjacent thereto by Hen. Popple at Amsterdam
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Hand-colored copperplate engraving, 19.875" x 18.75" plus margins. CONDITION: Very good, bit of separation at fold just slightly into image at bottom; a fine, dark impression, with pleasing outline color. This is the Dutch edition (title in French, the rest of the map in English) of the index map for Henry Popple's monumental 20-sheet map of North America, the first large scale British map of the American Colonies, and the first English map to name all thirteen. The map extends from lower Canada to northern South America, and from the eastern seaboard as far west as the Mississippi and its western tributaries. Inset views of Niagara Falls (after Father Louis Hennepin, 1698), Mexico City, Quebec (after J.B.L. Franquelin, 1688) and New York City (after William Burgis, 1720) appear in the upper left and right hand corners respectively. On the right is a series of eighteen inset maps depicting Boston, New York, Charlestown, Bermuda, St. Augustine and other places. A handsome cartouche appears in the lower left corner, picturing several native people, an alligator, and two monkeys; a group of European men is seen standing on the beach in the background and several ships are visible n the distance beyond. "Henry Popple published his map during a time of conflict between the English and French in the north in Canada, and in the west in Louisiana, and between the English and the Spanish in the south in Florida. In effect, therefore, the English colonies of the eastern seaboard found themselves entirely surrounded" (Goss). Henry Popple (d. 1743) was a geographer, mathematician, author and publisher. He served as clerk to the Board of Trade in 1727, and agent for the same to various West Indian governments from 1728 to 1739. His Map of the British Empire in America is the only printed map to his credit. Popple is believed to have had little or no training in mapmaking, and the draughtsmanship is generally credited to his assistant, Clement Lempriere (1683-1746), a military engineer, engraver and cartographer, who served with the British Army and was chief draughtsman at the Tower of London. Signed by the engraver, Johannes Condet (1711-1781), at lower right. REFERENCES: McCorkle, New England in Early Printed Maps, 741.3; Goss, The Mapping of North America, p. 122; Phillips, Maps of America, p. 569; Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3395
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A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto By Hen. Popple.
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Key sheet to the first large scale printed map to show the 13 colonies Engraved map, with fine hand-colour in full This Key, or index, sheet to Popple's 'Map of the British Empire in America', is a faithful and accurate reduction of Popple's wall map, including the title and dedicatory cartouches, all vignettes, and even Edmund Halley's endorsement. However, its smaller size necessitated fewer topographical details, and in that respect, it is very similar to a surviving manuscript map in Popple's hand (see Pritchard and Taliaferro). In addition, this Key map bears gridlines and numbers to show how to assemble the larger map. When it was published in 1733, Popple's wall map was one of the two most important maps of North America published in the eighteenth century on a grand scale: along with John Mitchell's 'Map of the British & French Dominions in North America', Popple's map was a profound statement of England's designs for dominance of the North American continent, at a time when colonial control of North America was by no means certain. The first large scale printed map to show, and name, the 13 British colonies, it was nearly eight feet square when joined, and showed the extent, not just of the British, but also the French, and Spanish colonial possessions of North and Central America, and the West Indies. "Little is known of Henry Popple, except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map, his only known cartographic work" (McCorkle). His father and grandfather both served as secretary to the board. When his father resigned, Henry's brother, Alured, inherited the post. Henry was offered a clerkship in 1727. "Finding that position unprofitable, he resigned to work as a private financial agent for the West Indian governors and some British regiments. In that capacity he appeared before the commissioners on numerous occasions" (Pritchard & Taliaferro). Alured eventually accepted the post of governor of Bermuda, in which post he was succeeded by another brother, William. As with the larger map, the Key sheet was engraved by William Henry Toms. The elaborate title-cartouche is a beautifully executed miniature of the original by Bernard Baron. However, Popple credits the design of the larger map to the Channel Islander Clement Lempriere, a military cartographer attached to the Corps of Engineers and later Chief Draftsman at the Tower of London, who subsequently worked on other projects with Toms. Despite the evident need for a map such as Popple's, and his connection to the Board of Trade and Plantations, it was not initially a commercial success. Publication of the map was taken over by William Henry Toms and Samuel Harding in August of 1739, at the outbreak of the War of Jenkin's Ear, when it eventually found its commercial moment and sales soared. They advertised it frequently in the newspapers, with their last advertisement appearing in July 1745. In 1746, the rights to Popple's map were sold to Willdey and Austen, who published the map until Austen's death in 1750 (Babinski, Notes 4-8). This is Babinski's state 4, showing the track of the Spanish Galleons. Babinski, state 4; Babinski, M., 'Henry Popple's 1733' map (New Jersey, 1998); Brown, 'Early Maps of the Ohio Valley 14'; cf. Cumming, 'The Southeast in Early Maps', 216, 217; Pritchard, M., 'Degrees of Latitude', 24, state 4 (but with engraved number to sheet 1); McSherry Fowble, E., 'Two Centuries of Prints in America 1680-1880' (1987), 6, 7; cf. Goss, J. 'The Mapping of North America' (1990) 55 (key map only); Graff 3322; Howes P481, "b"; Lowery 337 & 338; McCorkle, 'America Emergent' 21; Phillips Maps p.569; Sabin 64140; Schwartz & Ehrenberg p.151; Streeter Sale 676; Stephenson & McKee Virginia in Maps, map II-18A-B. (plate mark) 540 by 510mm(21.25 by 20 inches); sheet size 730 by 545mm (28.75 by 21.5 inches). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16504
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A Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto
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Folio. (21 x 15 inches). Engraved folding key map in Babinski State 4, showing the track line of Spanish Galleons. Large engraved wall map on 15 double-page and 5 full-page map sheets, numbered in plate and in contemporary ink manuscript, in Babinski State 7, with Harding and Toms's imprint on map sheet 17, on laid paper with Strasbourg Lily watermarks. Ink manuscript sheet key opposite key map, which also carries ink manuscript configuration guidance. Finely bound to style in period diced quarter calf with tips on marbled paper boards, six raised bands forming seven gilt-ruled compartments with gilt-titling in second. A bound example of the largest eighteenth-century wall map of the Thirteen Colonies, and the first to name all thirteen. Popple's was the first detailed map of British, French, and Spanish colonial possessions in North America. The most historically significant eighteenth-century cartographic work was the mapping of Colonial America. For the English, maps depicting territorial boundaries were vital due to claim conflicts with the French and Spanish. In this period, there was growing English concern over French explorations in the Mississippi Valley, which stimulated map production. Colonial officials needed accurate maps illustrating the land, waterways, forts, and settlements, but maps were also essential for domestic political reasons. They delineated and served to legitimize boundaries and helped define British economic interests in the New World. Popple's map of the British Empire in America, his only major cartographic work, was the largest printed map of the continent made during the colonial period. Popple produced this map under the auspices of Great Britain's Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, Spanish, and French colonies. "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent." [Goss] "Little is known of Henry Popple except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map." [McCorkle] Even with Popple's government connections, his map was not a commercial success until its publication was taken over by Toms and Harding in 1739. Regardless, it was of outsize historical importance. Popple's was the first map to name all the original Thirteen Colonies, and one of the first to show the new Colony of Georgia. The map was distributed by Great Britain's Board of Trade to the government of every colony in America. It was widely copied by other cartographers and remained the standard-bearer of North American maps for decades, in part because its issuance in both wall map and atlas forms allowed for a variety of usages. Benjamin Franklin, on May 22, 1746, ordered two copies of this map, "one bound the other in sheets," for the Pennsylvania Assembly. It was the only map of sufficient size and grandeur available. And the map is on a grand scale: if actually assembled it would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Its coverage extends from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. Several of the sections are illustrated with handsome pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence, Bermuda, and a number of others. Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 map, State 4, 7. Brown, Early Maps of the Ohio Valley 14. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1955-408. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps 216, 217. Degrees of Latitude 24. Goss, The Mapping Of North America, p.122. McCorkle, America Emergent 21. McSherry, Two Centuries of Prints in America: 1680-1880. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40905
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A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto.
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Engraved by Will.m Henry Toms, 1733, [but 1734], London,, 1733
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A profound statement of England's designs for dominance of the North American continent; at a time when colonial control of North America was by no means certain Large engraved wall map, with contemporary hand-colour in full, engraved on 20 printed mapsheets, 15 double-page maps and five single-page maps (the single-page maps comprise bird's eye views and harbour plans which appear on the right side of the map, from top to bottom, with 20 of the 22 views and plans appearing on these five sheets, the last two views appear on sheet 1, in the upper left corner of the map), plate 10 in Pritchard State 3, plate 20 in Pritchard State 4; with two contents leaves: "The Contents of Mr. Popple's Map of America", mounted on front pastedown, and "The Contents of each sheet of the twenty plates of Mr. Popple's Map of America", mounted on conjugate of the keymap; contemporary marbled paper boards, rebacked in calf to style. A magnificent example of Popple's twenty-sheet 'Map of the British Empire in America', with superb vibrant original hand-colour in full. One of the two most important maps of North America published in the eighteenth century on a grand scale: along with John Mitchell's 'Map of the British & French Dominions in North America', Popple's map was a profound statement of England's designs for dominance of the North American continent; at a time when colonial control of North America was by no means certain. Popple's map is the first large scale printed map to show, and name, the thirteen British colonies. Nearly eight feet square when joined, the map shows the extent, not just of the British, but also the French, and Spanish colonial possessions of North and Central America, and the West Indies. "Little is known of Henry Popple, except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map, his only known cartographic work" (McCorkle). His father and grandfather both served as secretary to the board. When his father resigned, Henry's brother, Alured, inherited the post. Henry was offered a clerkship in 1727. "Finding that position unprofitable, he resigned to work as a private financial agent for the West Indian governors and some British regiments. In that capacity he appeared before the commissioners on numerous occasions" (Pritchard & Taliaferro). Alured eventually accepted the post of governor of Bermuda, in which post he was succeeded by another brother, William. This was at a period when boundary disputes among both the colonists, and with the French, began to accelerate the need for detailed maps of North America. In 1730 the Board began requesting maps of the entirety of the provinces and contiguous regions. At the time of its publication, "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent" (Goss). Popple's large format up-to-date map, produced under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, provides a clear illustration of how to better understand and demarcate all the rival claims. On close examination, an engraved dashed line identifying the boundaries of the colonial powers can be seen. However, to facilitate a clearer visual depiction of these boundaries, Popple devised a colour scheme for depicting the claims of the various colonial powers. As noted by Babinski: "The typical coloring [sic] of fully colored copies. is described best by a contemporary manuscript legend on the end-paper affixing the Key map to the binding in the King George III copy at the British Library: Green - Indian Countrys. Red - English. Yellow - Spanish. Blue - French. Purple - Dutch". The careful demarcation of the disputed areas by colour makes identification of whether a particular location was in one or another 'zone' a great deal easier. Thus, the original full-colour examples are particularly important in facilitating the graphical depiction of the international land disputes of the time. Popple's map was both a cartographic landmark and a visual icon among the social elite of the British Colonies. As noted by Bruckner in 'The Geographic Revolution in Early America': "British Americans frequently imported imperial maps during the eighteenth century. Decorative wall maps showing British possessions in North America were favourite articles, purchased primarily by the colonial elite. Strategically displayed in formal settings of the home or provincial office, these maps painted bombastic scenes of territorial conquest and signified the range of the British Empire. For example, maps like Henry Popple's 'Map of the British Empire in America' (1733) reached American audiences upon special orders by the Board of Trade and Plantations, and colonial politicians like Benjamin Franklin eagerly requested Popple's map for public display". Popple issued an announcement for his map in 1731, but did not complete work on it until 1733, shortly after the new colony of Georgia was chartered in London in July, 1732. It is therefore one of the earliest maps to name Georgia. Considered by the British as an important protective buffer between the more densely populated English Colonies in the north and the Spanish in Florida, the new colony was only developed in early 1733, with the landing of James Edward Oglethorpe and his small party of 120 colonials. Oglethorpe returned to England in 1734 and met with the King on July 20, 1734, showing him "several charts and Curious Drawings relating to the new Settlement of Georgia". The same charts and maps must have been made almost immediately available to Popple, as he incorporated this new information into a corrective paste-down mounted on Sheet 10 in State 3 of the map. The new information regarding Georgia was then engraved onto the map in State 4 published in late 1734, as here see Babinski, note 12, 13. The map was engraved. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17510
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The Thomas W. Streeter copy of the first large-scale map of North America, and the first printed map to show the thirteen colonies, in original boards, complete with the separate key map and the contents leaf. Henry Popple produced this map under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, Spanish, and French colonies. "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent" - Goss, p.122. The present copy of Popple's map would have been particularly useful in these early disputes. Benjamin Franklin, on May 22, 1746, ordered two copies of this map, "one bound the other in sheets," for the Pennsylvania Assembly. It was the only map of sufficient size and grandeur available - and the map is on a grand scale: if actually assembled it would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Its coverage extends from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to about ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. Several of the sections are illustrated with handsome pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence, Bermuda, and a number of others. "Little is known of Henry Popple except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map, his only known cartographic work" - McCorkle. Mark Babinski has made a detailed study of the issues and states of the Popple map. This copy is in Babinski's state 5: the imprint on sheet 20 reads, "London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms 1733"; and sheet one includes the engraved figure "1" in the upper left corner just above the intersection of the two neat lines. The very rare small format table of contents is present. The key map is in Babinski's state 1, with only Toms' name below the border at the bottom and no additional place names in the seventeen small insets. Thomas W. Streeter's pencil notes on the front pastedown are significant with regard to the quality and provenance of this copy. He writes that "this fine copy in original binding and broad margins with the key map and leaf of contents attached to the final blank leaf [was acquired] from Roland Tree of Henry Stevens, Sept. 18, 1941. It was exchanged for a rebound copy lacking the key map and the leaf of contents and with narrow margins.I gave Stevens the former copy plus $75. The large key map is of considerable importance and I believe is somewhat rare as is the leaf of contents." Interestingly, Streeter's own notes on the provenance of this copy are at odds with the note in the catalogue of his sale, which states that he acquired this copy from Levinson in 1957. This copy sold at the Streeter sale to Sessler's in 1967 for $5250, acquired for H. Richard Dietrich Jr., and has remained in his Dietrich American Foundation since then. Mark Babinski, HENRY POPPLE'S 1733 MAP (New Jersey, 1998) (ref). BROWN, EARLY MAPS OF THE OHIO VALLEY 14. CUMMING, THE SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS 216, 217 (refs). DEGREES OF LATITUDE 24, state 4 (but with engraved number to sheet 1). FOWBLE, TWO CENTURIES OF PRINTS IN AMERICA 1680-1880 (1987) 6, 7. JOHN GOSS, THE MAPPING OF NORTH AMERICA (1990) 55 (key map only). GRAFF 3322. HOWES P481, "b." LOWERY 337, 338. McCORKLE 21. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.569. SABIN 64140. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.151. STREETER SALE 676 (this copy). STEPHENSON & McKEE, VIRGINIA IN MAPS, map II-18A-B. Folio. Original half calf and marbled paper boards, raised bands. Boards with moderate wear and rubbing, loss to marbled paper in a few places, joints starting to separate but still strong, spine ends chipped. Bookplate and pencil notes on front pastedown (see below), light rumpling to endpapers. Minor worming at lower margin near gutter on the first few leaves (no text affected), one instance of slight staining, but overall very clean internally. Near fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 58473
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