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ADMIRALTY. - J. & C. WALKER (engravers)
[Charleston Harbor] America East Coast Charleston Harbour from the United States Coast Survey 1858
London: published at the Admiralty, April 25th 1861. Engraved map, with some contemporary hand-colouring and annotation. Sheet size: 26 3/8 x 38 5/8 inches.
A fine detailed chart, based on information gathered by the United States Coast Survey.
An interesting example with early manuscript additions "Federal Approaches under [General] Gilmore [in 1863]," with Federal batteries and trenches marked in red, and Confederate positions marked in green. Charleston Harbor was virtually under siege by the Union from 1863 until 1865, and fell finally due to Sherman's advance from the West.
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ARROWSMITH, John (1790-1873)
Map of Texas, compiled from Surveys recorded in the Land Office of Texas and other Official Surveys.
London: Arrowsmith, 1841. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in very good condition, but for an expertly repaired tear (with no loss) at upper right. Sheet size: 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches.
The great European map of the Republic of Texas.
Arrowsmith's map was probably the first to show the full extent of Texas's claim to the region of the upper Rio Grande, an area included within Texas's boundaries until the Compromise of 1850. The map includes two insets, one showing the geographical relationship of Mexico, Texas and the United States, and another inset showing Galveston Bay, with soundings illustrating for the traveler the best route to the new city of Houston. The popularity and general acceptance of the map was shown by the fact that many mapmakers copied liberally from Arrowsmith's map, including some of its errors. As one of the earliest maps to contain information from the General Land Office of Texas, the map located Indian tribes, major roadways, and included editorial comments for the benefit of the future traveler to Texas, such as "excellent land," "valuable land," "rich land," and "delightful country."
In spite of its few errors, the map was certainly the best information on Texas geography available in Europe during the decade in which the political fate of the new Republic was of international concern.
The present copy is the Kennedy state, from William Kennedy's The Rise, Progress and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. The imprint line gives the publication date as "17 April 1841." When the map is found in the London Atlas, it is usually the third state dated "8 June 1843."
Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900; plate 32; Tooley, 'Printed Maps of America', in Map Collector's Circle 69, item 262.
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ARROWSMITH, John (1790-1873)
Map of Texas, compiled from Surveys recorded in the Land Office of Texas and other Official Surveys.
London: Arrowsmith, 1858. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour. Sheet size: 26 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches.
The great European map of the Republic of Texas.
Arrowsmith's map was probably the first to show the full extent of the Texas claim to the region of the upper Rio Grande, an area included within Texas borders until the Compromise of 1850. The map includes two insets, one showing the geographical relationship of Mexico, Texas and the United States (prior to the Mexican War), and another inset showing Galveston Bay, with soundings illustrating for the traveler safe routes to Houston and Galveston. The popularity and general acceptance of the map was shown by the fact that many mapmakers copied liberally from Arrowsmith's map, including some of its errors. As one of the earliest maps to contain information from the General Land Office of Texas, the map located Indian tribes, major roadways, and included editorial comments for the benefit of the future traveler to Texas, such as "excellent land," "valuable land," "rich land," and "delightful country." This issue of the map extends the outline colouring to include the recently formed southeastern counties.
Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900; plate 32; Tooley, 'Printed Maps of America', in Map Collector's Circle 69, item 262.
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BAUMAN, Sebastian
[Battle of Yorktown] To His Excellency Genl. Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America. This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down, and is Most humbly dedicated by his Excellency's Obedient and very humble servant, Sebastn. Bauman, Major of the New York or 2nd Regt of Artillery
Philadelphia: 1782. Copper engraving, with original hand-colouring. "References to the British Lines" is set within a scroll in the upper right-hand corner. At lower center is a lengthy key or "Explanation" of the battlefield, which identifies and describes eighteen key locations on the battlefield. The explanation is set within a rococo frame, which in turn is enclosed by the flags of the United States and France, cannon, arms, and other spoils of battle. Some minor creases on verso from previous folding, restoration to margins beyond platemark. Image size (including text): 25 1/2 x 17 7/16 inches. Sheet size: 27 x 18 7/8 inches.
"A cornerstone document of our national heritage" (Nebenzahl, Atlas, p. 184.)
Within three days of the British surrender on October 19, 1781, Major Sebastian Bauman, an American artillery officer, took the field and carefully surveyed the terrain and battle positions at Yorktown. A native of Germany, Bauman had emigrated to America after service in the Austrian army. During the Revolution, he served in the campaigns in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and was in command of the artillery at West Point, before joining Washington at the siege of Yorktown.
Bauman spent six days surveying the battlefield at Yorktown. His manuscript draft was quickly sent to Philadelphia where it was engraved by Robert Scot to be sold by subscription. The map was advertised in The New York Packet and the American Advertiser in March 1782:
"Major Bauman of the New York, or Second Regiment of Artillery, Has Drawn a Map of the Investment of York and Gloucester, in Virginia. Shewing how those posts were besieged in form, by the allied army of America and France; the British lines of defence, and the American and French lines of approach, with part of York River, and the British ships as they then appeared sunken in it before Yorktown; and the whole encampment in its vicinity./ This Map, by desire of many gentlemen, will shortly be published in Philadelphia, in order that the public may form an idea of that memorable siege. Those gentlemen who incline to become subscribers will apply to the printer hereof; where the conditions will be shewn, and subscription money be received."
This was the only detailed battle plan of Yorktown published in America. As a participant for the winning side, Bauman was able to spend more time surveying the field than the British engineers who were bottled up in Yorktown. Thus he was able to include an extensive area to the south of the town that does not appear on the best British plans, such as those published by Faden and Des Barres. The location of the French and American positions is necessarily more detailed and informed. As it appeared in print before the British plans, it was the first survey of the Siege of Yorktown made available to the American public.
Margaret Pritchard notes that the plan was also an effective piece of propaganda: "In addition to providing substantial detailed military information, this map is also interesting for its artistic composition. Yorktown, Gloucester Point, and troop positions are confined primarily to the top half of the map. The lower half is dominated by the explanation that is embellished with ornaments of war. The shape of the scrollwork cartouche surrounding the explanation, with flags and banners that thrust upward from both sides, force the eye to the center of the image. "Here, in an open space, is the very heart of the map, 'The field where the British laid down their Arms'. " It is this field that is omitted from all of the British battle plans of Yorktown.
Bauman's plan is a legendary rarity which almost never appears on the market. Its scarcity is due to the fact that it was separately published by subscription only. Relatively few sheets were printed, and very few of those survived. Wheat & Brun locate eight institutional copies, but not one in Virginia. To these, we can add four copies known to us in private American collections.
Perhaps Nebenzahl summarized the importance of the map best: "Bauman's splendid map, dedicated to General Washington, reflects his formal European training in topographical engineering. It is the only American survey of the culmination of the great struggle for independence and a cornerstone document of our national heritage."
Alexander O. Vietor, The Bauman Map of the Siege of Yorktown; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 199; Degrees of Latitude, 68; Nebenzahl, A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 189; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, Map 48; Wheat & Brun, Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800: A Bibliography, entry 541; Fite & Freeman, A Book of Old Maps, pp. 287-288; Stokes & Haskell, American Historical Prints, pp. 57-58; Virginia Magazine of History & Biography 39 (1931), reproduced opp. p. 104.
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BAUR, C.F.
[The Americas] Neueste Karte von America.... New Chart of America showing the tracks and distances of steam vessels, with the distances to the principal ports of Europe, to the great Lines of Railway and the submarine Cables, constructed for the Use of Geographie [sic.] commercial.... Carte Nouvelle de l'Amerique...
Stuttgart: Julius Maier, circa 1885]. Tinted lithographic map, with title in German, English and French, with original outline colour, on six folding sheets, backed onto linen, and edged with blue cloth tape, in excellent condition, in modern blue cloth box. Sheet size: 63 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches.
A rare and highly detailed monumental wall map of the Western Hemisphere
This fascinating map excellently embodies the ethic of empiricist cartography that prevailed in the nineteenth-century. All of North and South America is depicted in great detail with very assured geographical accuracy for the time. A very attractive aesthetic effect is created, with landmasses tinted in a shade of orange, juxtaposed against the seas, which are coloured in a golden brown hue. The various political boundaries of the various states are outlined in bright, resplendent colours. The seas feature a wealth of hydrological information, most notably the great currents that traverse the oceans, notably the Humboldt Current in the Pacific and the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic. The lines of major shipping routes and the distances between key ports are also noted on the map.
The depiction of North America is most interesting, while the American west had by this time been settled in many areas, not all of its territories had yet been admitted into the Union as states. The Canadian Prairies are captured just before the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and the great wave of settlement that would result. The depiction of the Arctic is fascinating, as while the southern part of the Arctic Archepelago is charted, the most northerly regions, such as Ellesmere Island, are absent from the map, totally unknown to explorers. Alaska, which was purchased by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 is shown to be a complete wilderness.
The islands of the Caribbean are shown to be almost entirely under the colonial hegemony of the various European powers, and the nations of South America exhibit very different borders than the ones which we are familiar with today. Colombia still owned Panama, and straight, arbitrary lines mark the international boundaries in the heart of the continent - the still mysterious Amazon Basin. Bolivia is shown to own a piece of the Pacific Coast by the Atacama Desert, and Peru's borders extend further south than they do today. The map shows these countries as they appeared before the Pacific War (1881-3), during which Chile roundly defeated its northern neighbours, and seized three littoral provinces.
The map features six very interesting cartographic insets. In each of the top corners are insets of the polar regions showing both of these extremities of the globe to be somewhat enigmatic. Towards the lower left of the map is a detailed inset featuring the most populated region of the United States, the Washington-Boston corridor. Another inset depicts the elevation of the topography of North America, while towards the lower right of the map, another inset similarly details South America. A most curious aspect is featured in the final inset, an 'ethnographic map' of the Americas, which shows which parts of the hemisphere are inhabited by a majority of people of indigenous versus European ancestry.
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BEAURAIN, Jean Chevalier de (1696-1772, cartographer) - Georg Friedrich Jonas FRENTZEL (1754-1799, engraver)
[Greater Boston] Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston
Leipzig: Johann Carl Müller, 1776. Copper-engraved map, with troop positions highlighted in period colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 22 x 26 7/8 inches.
A very rare and highly decorative work, one of the most important Revolutionary War maps of Boston, that Krieger & Cobb cite as "the only German map of Boston [made] during the Revolutionary period."
The present map is an outstanding work on many levels. Boston and its environs are depicted on the eve of one of the most momentous events in American history, the Siege of Boston, which gave George Washington his first important victory. A great topographical work, the varied nature of the land is expressed with great virtuosity in finely engraved hachures. The superlative mapping of the coastline and the harbor is derived from J.F.W. Des Barres' "Map of the port of Boston."
The map captures the moment when British forces, still in control of Boston, prepare to face George Washington's Continental forces. Boston, on a narrow peninsula is shown to be in an increasingly precarious defensive position. In an improvement over its predecessor, Frentzel's edition makes a clear reference to the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), noting the "Ruinen von Charles=town." Around the city, the placement of the respective forces is depicted with unparalleled accuracy, with the British troop lines highlighted in blue and the Continental troop lines in red. Three divisions of Washington's forces are placed with one at Cambridge, one at Charlestown Neck, and another above Roxbury. The observer will notice that the British commanders elected not to place troops atop Dorchester Heights. Washington later took this ground, giving him an irrepressible advantage over the British in the ensuing siege. The British were compelled to leave the city in March, 1776.
This second version is much rarer than Beaurain's original work which was printed earlier that year with French toponymy. Preserved in the present version, in the upper-right, is a highly decorative and iconographically emblematic title cartouche. Beaurain, in homage to the French sympathies to the rebel cause, depicts an Englishman cruelly trying to depose a banner from the Tree of Liberty, against the will of an indignant American.
Although the conflict inspired considerable interest in Germany, this map is the only German map of Boston printed there during the Revolutionary period. Late in 1776, Leipzig master-engraver G. F. J. Frentzel created a new edition of the map that was faithful to Beaurain's original, and it was printed as part of the Geographisches Belustigungen zur Erläuterung der neuesten Weltgeschichte, an extremely rare German book on the early days of the War of Independence.
Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 706; Krieger & Cobb, Mapping Boston, p.181, pl. 27; The Library of Congress Quarterly Journal no.30 (1973), pp.252-253; Nebenzahl, A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 19; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 924
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BEERS, S. N., D. J. Lake, and F. W. Beers
Gillette's Map of Oneida Co. New York from actual surveys under the direction of J. H. French
Philadelphia: John H. Gillette, 1858. Wall map, 66½ x 64 inches, full period colour. Expertly restored, backed with modern linen, trimmed in green cloth, on contemporary rollers. Chip at left end of upper roller. Evenly toned, some minor staining in upper portion. Very good.
Scarce and quite important.
This handsome map was the largest and best for Oneida County, New York, in the nineteenth century. Each township is individually coloured, with every rural property owner located and identified by name. The route of the Erie Canal is shown, as are several railroad lines. There is a large inset street plan of Utica (17 x 27½") that shows virtually every existing building in the town. It is accompanied by an extensive business directory. More than thirty smaller insets show the towns of Rome, Knox Corners, Delta, Trenton Falls, Deerfield Corners, Remsen, Waterville, Durhamville, Vernon, Camden, New Hartford, and Clinton, among others. Seven surrounding engravings show prominent homes and buildings in the region, including the Court House in Rome, Utica City Hall, and the residences of Stanton Park in Waterville and Gen. Lyman Curtiss in Camden.
Silas N. Beers and Frederick W. Beers were cousins and well-known mapmakers. Along with the young D. Jackson Lake, they had studied under J. H. French at Newtown Academy in Newtown, CT. When French left the Academy in 1855 to become head of the New York State mapping project, French enlisted his former students as associates. This project was the most ambitious and accomplished for any American state to its time. The map of Oneida County is the first joint project on which the Beers and Lake collaborated. Ristow hypothesizes that French used the Oneida project as a "training ground" for the three young talented mapmakers.
Not in Rumsey, nor in Phillips's America.
Ristow, American Maps & Mapmakers, pp.393-94.
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
[Great Lakes] Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada
Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 21 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches.
A very fine edition of Bellin's map, and one of the most important maps of the Great Lakes
This important map depicts the Great Lakes as they appeared in the years immediately before the Seven Years War, and significantly, it "constituted the first new material pertaining to New France to appear since the maps of Guillaume de L'Isle three decades earlier" (Heidenreich & Dahl). The present map represents the edition published by the esteemed firm, Homann Heirs as part of their Atlas Maior. It is closely derived from Bellin's 1745 first state of the map. A curious aspect of the map is its foreshortened rendering of Pennsylvania and New York. While this map evinces the latest in French knowledge of the region, it curiously places many fictitious islands, most notably "Ile Philippeaux" in Lake Superior. The land is still shown to be the domain of various native nations, including the "Pays des Iroquois" and the "Pays de Miami," and features the locations of numerous native villages. This in mind, the region was under tenuous French hegemony, as indicated by the presence of forts and Jesuit missions, such as "Fort Frontenac" (Kingston, Ontario), Niagara, Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie, and Kaskasquias in southern Illinois. The future site of Chicago is noted on the shores of Lake Michigan as "R. et Port de Chicagon". The coastline of the Thirteen Colonies from Chesapeake Bay to New York City is visible in the lower right corner. Bellin's rendering of the Great Lakes proved to be the most important cartographic source in the coming decades, most notably for John Mitchell's A Map of the British & French Dominions in North America (1755), the map that was used to define the boundaries of the newly independent United States in 1783. The composition is graced in the upper center-right by an extremely virtuous title cartouche of a rococo ethic.
Karpinski, Bibliography of the Early Printed Maps of Michigan, p.138; Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada III, 950, plate 715; Phillips, A List of Maps of America, p.191; Sellers & Van Ee, Maps & Charts of North America & West Indies, 19; Cf. Heidenreich & Dahl, 'The French Mapping of North America', in The Map Collector 19 (June, 1982); Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p.165, pl.97
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
[North America] Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale Depuis le 28 Degré de Latitude jusqu'au 72
Paris: J. N. Bellin, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in very good condition, with facsimile repairs to upper left cartouche, with official stamp of the "Depot de la Marine". Sheet size: 25 1/2 x 37 inches.
A very important and highly attractive large-scale map of North America by one of the eighteenth-century's greatest cartographers
The present map is one of the most fascinating and influential maps of North America to be made in the years shortly before the voyages of James Cook ushered in a new era of exploration that defined the west coast of the continent. This is also one of the last maps to depict the Franco-American empire, which was then at its greatest extent, immediately before it was entirely lost to Britain and Spain in the Seven Years War (1756-63). The map embraces the entire region from the northern reaches of the Gulf of Mexico up to the lower regions of the Canadian Arctic, and extends from California in the southwest to Greenland and Iceland in the north Atlantic. Critcally, this map is perhaps the finest record of the travels of the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varrennes, the Sieur de La Vérendrye and his sons, François and Louis. The La Vérendryes explored the heart of the continent from the upper Missouri River basin to the Rockies from 1731 to 1742. They followed the "Assiniboile" (Assiniboine) River deep into the Prairies into modern-day Alberta. Further to the south, they explored the country of the Mandan tribe in the Dakotas and Montana, and the map notes that the partially delineated "Riv. des Mantans" was indeed not the source of the Missouri River. The Rockies are indicated by the notation of the "Montagne de Pierre Brillante" (the Mountain of the Shining Stone), a native name inspired by the gleaming snow-capped peaks that led the range to be known as the 'Shining Mountains' before they acquired their modern name. The massive lakes of Manitoba, such as "Lac Ouinipique" (Lake Winnipeg) are delineated, however the map shows the great rivers to their north as running into the lakes, when in reality these rivers flowed into Hudson's Bay. Various French fur trading posts, such as the "Fort de La Reine" and "Fort Charles" are located on the waterways of the interior. The La Vérendryes maintained notably excellent relations with the Cree and Assiniboine peoples, however language difficulties caused the Frenchmen to misinterpret geographical information that was conveyed to them by the natives, and this both created new and reinforced existing mythologies regarding the lands beyond the Rockies. While a large notation indicates that it is not known whether the area in the northwestern portion of their map is land or sea, an area of undefined parameters is labeled as "La Mer de l'Ouest". This imaginary basin was conceived of by mapmakers in the late seventeenth-cenury and the La Vérendryes thought that a 'River of the West' connected this sea to the Pacific through one of two inlets that were allegedly discovered by Spanish mariners. These two locations are noted on the map along with the dates of their discoveries as the "Entrée de Martin d'Aguilar 1602" and the "Entrée de Juan de Fuca 1592," the latter approximating the location of an actual strait that still goes by the same name. The portrayal of California notes Sir Francis Drake's discovery of San Francisco Bay in 1578 and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's naming of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1542. Further north, an isolated strip identifies the coastline of what is now the Alaskan Panhandle, as discovered by the Russian mariners Vitus Bering and Alexei Chrikov in 1741. The advanced coverage of the Spanish territory of New Mexico and the Mississippi Basin, the latter comprising the French colony of Louisiana, is based on renderings by Guillaume de L'Isle and Jean-Baptiste D'Anville respectively. Bellin's depiction of the Great Lakes and eastern Canada is the same as that conveyed in his celebrated contemporary regional maps of the subjects. All of the Thirteen British colonies of the eastern seaboard are shown in great detail. The great artistic virtue of the map is confirmed by its adornment with two large cartouches lavishly decorated in the French rococo style.
Bellin, then the official hydrographer to Louis XV, and as master of the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de La Marine, had access to the most advanced cartographic resources available to the French state. The present map is one of his finest works, and was included as part of the L'Hydrographie Française, a great sea atlas, published by Bellin in two volumes from 1755 to 1766. It was also sold separately, as indicated in the lower right corner of the map for a price of "Cinquante Sols." Bellin was so highly regarded that the British (who were almost always at war with France) made him a member of their Royal Society.
Heidenreich & Dahl, The Map Collector, Vol.19 (1982), p.5; Tooley, Map Collectors' Circle 96, 764; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 582.
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas (1703-72)
[North Pacific] Carte Réduite de L'Ocean Septentrional compris entre l'Asie et l'Amerique suivant les Decouvertes qui ont été faites par les Russes...
Paris: J. N. Bellin, 1766. Copper-engraved map, in very good condition. Sheet size: 25 1/3 x 37 1/8 inches.
A fascinating map of the North Pacific shown just before the voyages of Cook, by Bellin, the esteemed French Royal hydrographer, present here in the first state
This extremely interesting and finely engraved large map depicts the northern Pacific Ocean, and adjacent coasts during an early stage in its exploration, after the first wave of great Russian explorers but just before the momentous voyages of Captain James Cook. The map embraces a vast expanse from north of the 35th parallel, from Japan to California. The map shows the tracks of the Russian voyages of Bering and his deputy Aleksei Chirikov conducted from 1728-43 that first defined eastern Siberia and touched upon the American northwest. Save the imaginary bulge on the north coast of the Chuckchi Peninsula, the coasts of Siberia are extremely well-defined, attesting to Bering's enormous talent as a cartographer. Japan, whose rulers were known to be especially unwelcoming to foreign explorers, is not well understood, such that its large northernmost island, Hokkaido, does not appear at all on the map.
It is perhaps Bellin's depiction of North America that is most intriguing. It shows how Bering and Chirikov touched on various points of the Aleutians and sighted Mount St. Elias, the 18,000 ft. peak located near the top of the Alaska panhandle. The Pacific northwest immediately south of that point is entirely conjectural noting apocryphal discoveries such as the 'River of the King's' encountered by the Spanish Admiral de Fuente in 1640, and the Strait of Juan De Fuca, discovered in 1592. Although the latter body of water does exist, it was probably first encountered by Europeans in the 1770s. Bellin does, however, note Sir Francis Drake's actual discovery of 'Nouvelle Albion' (northern California) in 1578. The map optimistically shows a land route across the continent to the Pacific, decades before any such endeavor was embarked upon. The mapping of the heart of North America is also most curious, as it shows the Red River system, which in reality flows towards Hudson's Bay, as being connected to the Mississippi Basin. The map is elegantly traversed by rhumb lines and the composition is completed by an exquisite rococo title cartouche.
This map was part of the l'Hydrographie Française, a great sea atlas, published by Bellin in two volumes from 1755 to 1766. This was one of the finest works of the prolific Bellin, the "Hydrographer to the King", who was so highly regarded that the British (who were almost always at war with France) made him a member of their Royal Society.
Kershaw, Early Maps of Canada IV, 1125, plate 879; Wagner, Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America, 610
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