North America. Performed Under the Patronage of Louis Duke of Orleans, First Prince of the Blood..."

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• ARTIST: Soloman Bolton

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving.

  DATE: 1755

• EDITION SIZE: Four sheet map, not joined.

• DESCRIPTION: A Large four-sheet map of North and Central America with the West Indies. Issued in 1752. Quite detailed, shows towns, cities, forts, Indian villages and tribal territories in the interior, and shoals, banks and navigational hazards offshore. Includes a large inset of Hudson Bay with notations concerning the search for a Northwest Passage. This map is based on D'Anville's map of 1746 with several notable "additions and improvements." In California is a note concerning the discoveries of Sir Francis Drake and the fact that they were not included in D'Anville's map, thus "rather than mention New Albion, as an English claim founded by Drake, the first circumnavigator, they castrate their own maps to blind his discovery." Engraved by Robert Seale, with the cartouches engraved by A. Walker. First edition of two. This map appeared in Mr. Postlethwayt's Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition save for overall time toning and some minor splitting along fold lines.

• REFERENCE: Sellers & Van Ee #14; Wheat (TMW) #127.

• CATEGORIES: Maps