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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. 

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. 

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 Massachusets, called New England; & in New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania. Vermont & New Hampshire are not named and just appear as part of New England.

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. 

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. Goast 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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

USE130 - E. MENTELLE & P. G. CHANLAIRE “Carte De La Partie Septentrionale Des Etats Unis Comprenant Le Canada, La Nouvelle Ecosse, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-Yorck, Etats De Vermont avec partie de Pensilvanie Et De New Jersey”. Paris. c. 1797. Colored. 13X16¼. This fine late 18th century map of the northeast coast is intensely detailed and shows the coast from New Jersey, New York and Long Island to Cape Cod, Boston and the coast of Maine to the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Inland, map shows New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts quite heavily settled and depicts mountains, rivers & lakes & the St. Lawrence River flowing down to Lake Ontario. Includes good detail of harbors and offshore banks. From “Atlas Universel” published in Paris in 1797. Engraved by Gaspard Andre.

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.

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.

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.” 

“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.

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 ot fhe western frontier depicting Ohio and the Ohio River and the northern regions of Kentucky which is named a State and includes Lousiville. 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.

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.)

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.

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. .

USE139 - U. S. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE “North America. East Coast and West Indies. Halifax to Hispaniola. Including the Bahamas and Greater Antilles.” Wash. D.C. 1894 (1945). 42X29. B/W with red accents. Intensely detailed chart shows North America's entire Eastern Sea Coast, depicting primary harbors, offshore islands, courses, channels, buoys, beacons and thousands of depth soundings. A wonderfully detailed and finely drawn chart used in WW2 for coastal navigation. Chart #1411. 

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.

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.

USE144 - LAURIE & WHITTLE “A New & 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, Pennsilvania and New Jersey.” London. 1794. Colored. 19X26. Very handsome map of the Northeastern regions of North America depicts the St. Lawrence River flowing down to Lake Ontario, and the coast from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia & the Bay of Fundy, down to Maine & Massachusetts depicting Boston Harbor and Cape Cod, and from the Cape the coast continues down to New York Harbor, New Jersey, Delaware Bay and Pennsilvania. Coastal & island contours are well-drawn with many bays & harbors. Inland the map shows cities, towns and villages & in one area west of Lake Champlain in upper New York State is a note saying “This vast tract of land which is the ancient Couchsachrage, one of the four Beaver Hunting Countries of the Six Nations is not yet explored. ” The map contains a number of other similar entries regarding the Indian lands indicated throughout the region. The title in top right is in a very handsome cartouche with scrolls and topped with a Beaver. The map was engraved by Thomas Kitchin (1719-1784) one of England's premier 18th century engravers, & published in “A New & Elegant Imperial Sheet Atlas Comprehending General & Particular Maps of Every Part of the World Principally Compiled from the Great French Atlas and Others of the Most Distinguished Geographers in Europe Forming the Completest Collection of Single Sheet Maps Hitherto Published.” Printed & published by Robert Laurie & James Whittle in London on 12th May, 1794. This is a lovely map in original color.

USE145A&B - C. S. HAMMOND & CO. “Birds-Eye-View. New York to Boston. Showing Steamship Lines, Lighthouses, Waterways and Landmarks.” NY..c. 1920. Grey/white color. Breathtaking view of the landscape from New York Harbor with the Hudson River to Long Island Sound & Long Island with Connecticut, Rhode Island & Massachusetts including Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, & Boston Harbor. There are 3 monoplanes pictured in the sky & the view encompasses what you would see from one of the planes if you were looking down on the entire New York & New England coastal landscape below. The chart also depicts courses of the New York, New Haven, & Providence Line Steamships & shows lightships, lighthouses, beacons & buoys & rivers & shows Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Nantucket Sound & Massachusetts Bay.The chart is folded into a colorful brochure with a decorative picture on it's cover depicting tourists looking out at the sea from the deck of a ship. (Very nice condition.) A rare find!

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."

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.) 

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