ARTIST: Johann Carver
PUBLISHER: Published by Carl Renst, Bohm.
MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,
DATE: 1780
EDITION SIZE: 10 3/8 x 13 1/4" (262 x 338 mm) plus margins.
DESCRIPTION: This finely engraved map is from a 1780, German edition of Carver's Travels through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768." It was first published in 17708. Jonathan Carver, 1710-1780, was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was a largely a self taught surveyor who, likely gained some knowledge and instruction during his time spent in the colonial militia during the French & Indian war. After the war he was determined “to explore the most unknown parts” of the “vast acquisition of territory” that Britain had gained as part of the piece agreement with France. Major Robert Rogers of Roger's Rangers fame, agreed to hire Carver in 1766 to explore west of Michilimackinac. Carver's duties were to document the geography, the number and location of Indians, and to describe the trading posts that they encountered. Other hopes for the expedition was to locate a river to the Pacific. Carver diligently recorded everything he heard and saw. Later, this information became the source for his book. Carver's cartographic information for the region west of the Great Lake's was not surpassed until Lewis & Clark's epic journey. The German edition of the map seen here, although published two years after the first, is a more embellished or more finely engraved than the first printing.
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CONDITION: Good condition. Black & white.
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