POPPLE, HENRY. A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto. London: Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms 1733. Large folio, average sheet size 530 x 726 mm. (20 7/8 x 28 5/8 in.), contemporary marbled paper over pasteboards, rebacked in calf, free endleaves and most guards renewed, boards worn and stained with loss to paper, minor marginal restoration to 6 mapsheets, 3 maps with soft creases along guards, minuscule perforation to border of map 20, some faint offsetting, occasional light mostly marginal foxing. Engraved map in 20 sheets, of which 15 full-sheets and 5 half-sheets (numbers 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20), with engraved inset views of Niagara Falls, Mexico City, Quebec and New York City, 17 inset harbor or coastal charts, pictorial title cartouche and armorial dedication, half-sheet key map hand-colored in outline bound in at front, original letterpress contents leaf pasted to inside front cover.

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POPPLE, HENRY. A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto. London: Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms 1733. Large folio, average sheet size 530 x 726 mm. (20 7/8 x 28 5/8 in.), contemporary marbled paper over pasteboards, rebacked in calf, free endleaves and most guards renewed, boards worn and stained with loss to paper, minor marginal restoration to 6 mapsheets, 3 maps with soft creases along guards, minuscule perforation to border of map 20, some faint offsetting, occasional light mostly marginal foxing. Engraved map in 20 sheets, of which 15 full-sheets and 5 half-sheets (numbers 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20), with engraved inset views of Niagara Falls, Mexico City, Quebec and New York City, 17 inset harbor or coastal charts, pictorial title cartouche and armorial dedication, half-sheet key map hand-colored in outline bound in at front, original letterpress contents leaf pasted to inside front cover.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA. Ordered by the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes between the rival Spanish, English and French colonists, Popple's map, with all its inaccuracies, was the best map of the Colonies yet issued. The final sheet bears the endorsement of the astronomer Edmund Halley to this effect. Howes P-481; Phillips Maps, p. 569; Sabin 64140; Streeter sale II:676.