NORTH AMERICA. Jansson. 1636/1647.
America Septentrionalis. Lower left in cartouche: Amstelodami, Excudit Ionnes Ianssonius. 18" h x 22" w. Scattered soiling. The margins are good and the paper heavy. There is barely perceptible show-through of the text. It appears the map was separated near the centerfold, then mended with archival tape on the back. The map is uncolored. The image is very good. The map was engraved by Henricus Hondius for publication in 1636. The same plate with Latin place names was used for a number of years while the text verso was reset in several languages.

This particular map is from a French edition published in Novel Atlas ou Theatre du Monde (Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1647) Koeman Me 106. State 2, illustrated in Burden Pl. 245, Goss North America 30, McLaughlin 6, Mooney Pl. 20, and Potter p. 144.

This is a very attractively designed map showing wild life and horses, and several ships and fish at sea. Indians taken from de Bry flank the title cartouche. California is depicted as an island. Only one of the Great Lakes is shown: Lac des Iroquois. Lake Champlain is incorrectly oriented. James Town, settled in 1607, is shown. There are four paragraphs of Latin text on the face of the map.

NORTH AMERICA. Sanson/Jaillot. 1695.
Amerique Septentrionale divisee en ses Principales Parties, ou sont distingues les vns des autres les Estats suivant qu'ils appartienment presentemet aux Francois, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois, Danois, Hollandois ... Par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. Dedie au Roy... Hubert Iallot. Geographe de Sa Majeste. In cartouche at right with distance scales: A Paris. Chez H. Jaillot . . . pour vingt Ans 169[ ]. 18"h x 25 1/4"w. Very good condition. Early color.

Published in Paris by Hubert Jaillot, 1695 and 1696. Engraved by Cordier. The imprint shows the date 169 without the final digit (this issue listed in Tooley Mapping 38, edition of 169_, on page 122). Jaillot joined Sanson's heirs, c1670, and redrew Sanson's maps on a larger scale and embellished them with elaborate cartouches. Sanson's original version of this map was only 15 x 21 inches. Ref McLaughlin 101, State 1, indicating issue in 1695 and 1696.

California is shown as an island in the style of the second Sanson model (1656) with the indented northern coastline. A small peninsula "Agubela de Gato" is the only part of the Pacific coastline shown north of California. A strip of "Terre de Jesso" (a term variously used for Japan and for Hokkaido alone) is shown in the Pacific immediately west of northern California. Santa Fe is shown along the R. Del Norte (Rio Grande River), but the river erroneously drains into the Gulf of California. The two western Great Lakes are open-ended, and Lake Erie is too far south, split by the 40th parallel.

NORTH AMERICA. Delisle. 1700/1718.
L'Amerique Septentrionale. Dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens. Par G. De L'Isle Prem'r Geographe du Roy. Imprint: A Paris Chez l'Autheur sur le Quai de l Horloge Avec Privilege du Roy pour 20. ans. 1700. Below cartouche N. Guerard inv. et Fec. 18" h x 24" w. Centerfold stain. Slight age toning. An earlier imprint below cartouche is barely visible. Map by Guillaume de l'Isle 1675-1726). Cartouche engraved by Nicolas Guerard (c.1648-1719). According to R. V. Tooley, Delisle became "Premier Geographe du Roi" in 1718. This entry dates the map at 1718 or later. Karpinski p 118 and 123; Tooley #31 on p 19 and pl. 9. Also, illustrated in Lunny Early Maps of North America, pl. XVII.

The map extends from South America to Baffin Bay. Tooley states "A foundation map". This is the first map to revert to the peninsular form of California. It is the first printed map to show the Sargasso Sea (Mer de Sargasse at the right of the map).

MEXICO AND FLORIDA. Delisle. 1703/1708-18.
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi ... Par Guillaume Del'Isle Geographe de l'Academie Royale des Scieces. Imprint: A Paris Chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l Horlage Privilege du Roy por 20. ans. 1703. 19" h x 26" w. Light centerfold stain and offset. According to Tooley, the imprint cited was used starting in 1708. In 1718 Delisle became Geographe du Roi. The title above does not grant him that role. Thus, we can date this particular issue of the map to the period 1708-1718. References: Tooley #50 on p 22 and pl. 12; Cumming p 137 and pl. 43; Wheat Vol I, 58; Wagner map 474; Schwartz & Ehrenberg pl. 82.

This often-illustrated map covers the area from the Great Lakes to New Mexico, then south to Panama and Venezuela. It includes the West Indies. The map is full of detail and was used as a principal source by many map-makers who followed (Chatelain, Homann, Seutter, Lotter, etc.). It is especially valuable for its delineation of the Mississippi Valley. However, it leaves unanswered the question of the insularity of California. French towns are represented by church crosses (New Orleans is not shown), Indian villages by tents, and forts by squares.

NORTH AMERICA. Fer. 1705.
L’Amerique Septentrionale et les Terres Polaires Arctique Dresse par N. de Fer. Upper right: A Paris Chez l’Auteur dans l’Isle du Palais a la Sphere Royalle avec Privil. Du Roy, 1705. Lower right: C. Inselin Sculp. 8"h x 11"w. Upper margin stained. A few small spots in image. Image in good condition. Map by Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720).

Published in Petit et Nouveau Atlas (Paris: de Fer, 1705). Reference Phillips Atlases 547. Illustrated in McLaughlin 111.

Shows California as an island with the indented northern coast. The island is called "Isle de Californie". The mouth of the Mississippi River is located where the Rio Grande (Riviere du Nord) enters the Gulf of Mexico. Santa Fe (founded 1609) is shown on the map.

NORTH AMERICA. Homann. c1714.
Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Ludovicianae , N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginie et Pensylvania .... Imprint: A. Ioh Baptista Homanno Noribergae. 19”h x 23”w. The title cartouche is somewhat faint, but easily read. The entire bottom margin is toned and there is a 2-inch long crease at the lower right corner, extending from the margins into the edge of the image. All of the edges of the margins show signs of wear. The neatlines are faint in some areas. Wash color, except the cartouches are not painted (this is characteristic of early coloring of Homann maps). Later editions add the phrase: “Cum Privilego Sac. Caes. Maj.” This map appears to have been printed before 1715 when Homann was appointed Geographer to the Emperor. After then he would have used the "Cum Privilegio" (with privilege, or authority given by the Emperor) to add weight to his status as a mapmaker. There were a number of re-issues of this map after 1715 with the "Cum Privilegio" in Homann’s Grosser Atlas and Atlas Geographicus Maior. Homann and his heirs were the most prolific of the German mapmakers during the 1700s.

The map extends from Nova Scotia to Venezuela, drawing largely from Delisle’s 1703 map of the same region. At the right is an unpainted cartouche of a gold mining scene. At the lower left is the scene of an unidentified sea battle. Spanish treasure routes from Vera Cruz, Havana and Cartagena are shown.

NORTH AMERICA. d'Anville. 1746+
Amerique Septentrionale Publiee sous les auspices de Monsigneur le Duc D'Orleans Premier Prince du sang Par le Sr. D'Anville MDCCXLVI Avec Privilege. Imprint: A Paris, chez l'Auteur, aux Galeries du Louvre. Lower right: Grave par Guill.' Delahaye. 40.6"h x 41.9"w on two joined sheets. Original outline color. Scattered foxing; good condition. Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).

Published in Atlas Generale (Paris, D'Anville, 1746 and later). Phillips Atlases 571; Phillips Maps 572 and 579.

Covers part of Canada, the United States to the Baja Peninsula, Central America, the northern coast of South America, and the West Indies. In the upper left is an untitled inset of Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay. The Great Lakes are reasonably well formed, but just west of them are two fictitious lakes draining west via the Grande Riviere. The Mid-West and West are largely uncharted except for Spanish settlements up the Rio del Norte (present-day Rio Grande). The color coding indicates the map was published after the Treaty of Paris (1763) whereby the French ceded all land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to the British. Cuba was restored to Spain by the English in exchange for East and West Florida, shown on this map as English possessions.

R.V. Tooley praises this map: "To illustrate the cartography of the second half of the eighteenth century, a d'Anville map is essential. He dominated not only French but all contemporary geographers. He was one of the foremost to leave blank spaces in his maps where knowledge was insufficient. He became First Geographer to the King and was a collector of maps as well as a cartographer, starting at the age of fifteen. His representation of the Great Lakes is superior to that of his contemporary John Mitchell." The Mapping of America, pp. 316-17.

NORTH AMERICA. Morse. 1797.
A New Map of North America Shewing all the New Discoveries 1797. Above top neatline: Engraved for Morse’s American Gazetteer. Lower right: Hill, Sc. 9 ¼”w x 7 ½”h. Backed on archival tissue. Upper margin augmented. Small spot in Atlantic Ocean. Image in very good condition. References Wheat & Brun Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800, No. 60 and Wheat TransmississippiWest No. 244 and illustrated after page 150.

Engraved by Samuel Hill. Published in Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), The American Gazetteer.... Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1797. First edition. Howes M839.

The Arctic shore line is indicated with a dashed line. A waterway across Southern Greenland is indicated by parallel dashed lines. Sir Francis Drake Harbor is shown on the coast of present-day California. Florida is shown as divided into East and West Florida.

NORTH AMERICA. Conder. 1794/1806.
A New Map of North America, agreeable to the Latest Discoveries. 10”w x 8”h. Lower right: T. Conder sculpt. Center, under neatline: London, Published Jany 1st. 1794, by R. Wilkinson No. 58, Cornhill. Original outline and wash color. Wash color partly augmented. Lower left corner of margin missing small piece. Short tear in right margin repaired with archival tape. Margins lightly soiled but image in very good condition.

Engraved by Thomas Conder. Published in A General Atlas, being A Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters.... London: Robert Wilkinson, 1800 (but 1805). Contents page dated 1805.

Extends from Alaska south to northern Mexico. Shows Spanish claims in yellow, English in red and the USA in green. Florida, the Gulf coast, part of Central America and part of South America are included.

NORTH AMERICA. Monk. 1852.
New Map of that Portion of North America, Exhibiting the United States and Territories, the Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Mexico, also, Central America, and the West India Islands. Compiled from the most recent Surveys, and Authentic Sources. Published by Jacob Monk. Baltimore, Md. 1852. Engraved and Printed by A. Hoen & Co. Lithographers & Engravers, Balto. 55 x 59" including borders. A rolled map on original linen. Surfaces losses and discoloration, mainly in bottom half beginning in mid-Mexico. Upper half good condition; lower half poor condition. Original hand color. Inset, lower left: “New Map of the World on Mercator’s Projection.” Reference Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region, 243 (listing the 1853 edition) with the comment: “The California portion of this large map discloses an effort to portray the gold region with some degree of accuracy, though Weaverville appears on a branch of the Sacramento River, and 'Seventy-six' is the sole settlement shown on the upper Feather River" [p.111]. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 737 (this edition).

Numerous wagon routes, explorer trails, forts, and Indian tribes help fill this map. The middle portion of the U.S. had not yet been organized into states, but Indian nations are named and colored. Much of this area later became the Nebraska Territory (1854). Minnesota includes Dakota, here unnamed. Out west only California and the territories of Oregon, New Mexico and Utah are shown, but the Gadsden border (land purchased 1853) is not yet shown.

NORTH AMERICA. Gray. 1877.
North America. 12”w x 15”h. Margins slightly soiled. Upper left corner creased, not affecting image. Two small stains near the title. Map image in very good condition. Original wash color.

Published in The National Atlas Containing Elaborate Topographical Maps of the United States . . . (Philadelphia, O. W. Gray & Son, 1877).

Alaska shown as “Alaska Territory”. Russia ceded Alaska to the U.S. in 1867 for $7,200,000. Canada is labeled “British Possessions”, of which a small part is called “Canada”. Oklahoma is labeled “Indian Territory”.