![MORDEN, Robert, publisher. DANIEL, Richard, cartographer. A Map of ye English Empire in ye Continent of America viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Jarsey, New England, Pennsilvania. [London]: "Sold by R. Morden at ye Atlas in Cornhill neer ye Royal Echange," [ca 1684-1685].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01614_0013_000(102402).jpg?w=1)
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MORDEN, Robert, publisher. DANIEL, Richard, cartographer. A Map of ye English Empire in ye Continent of America viz Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Jarsey, New England, Pennsilvania. [London]: "Sold by R. Morden at ye Atlas in Cornhill neer ye Royal Echange," [ca 1684-1685].
Copper-plate engraving (512 x 627 mm) signed in the plate "W:Binneman Sculpsit," early outline coloring in yellow, pink and green. (Several tears to upper margin with minor losses to border, small hole in blank right-hand blank area, old folds reinforced from verso.) Provenance: Originally part of the Minute Book of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey (see lot 9).
AN EXTREMELY RARE MAP, ONE OF THE BEST EARLY GENERAL MAPS OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN AMERICA. It is frequently confused with a map by Daniel, Morden and Berry of ca 1678, although it differs in title and the other is without much of the detail depicted in the present map (see Déak, Picturing America, 63; Pritchard & Taliaferro 68). The principal map here depicts the English colonies from Nova Scotia and New England south to Virginia; to the west are depicted several of the Great Lakes (Lakes "Hurons," "Ontarius" and "Lake Erias or Felis"). The headwaters of the Potomac appear to connect directly with the Great Lakes, while the Northern reaches of the Hudson are fancifully drawn, with a large "Lake Iroquoise" in place of present-day Lake Champlain. French settlements along the St. Lawrence are accurately depicted, as is the Connecticut River and the village of "Dierfield," the northernmost English settlement on that river. In general, the map displays a wealth of detail, even including the St. Georges Bank and Nantucket shoals. This copy is the second state of three, with the title inside the cartouche expanded by the addition of Pennsilvania, and with the newly granted province indicated in the map. (In this copy, used by associates of Penn, the proprietors of East Jersey, Pennsylvania is emphatically outlined in pink.) East and West New Jersey are depicted, with their northern borders outlined to extend up the west bank of the Hudson nearly to the Esopus (Kingston).
At the lower right, a large inset shows the Carolinas (from below St. Augustine north to Cape Henry and the James River); including numerous inland Indian settlements and the oblique folds of the Appalachians, here captioned: "The Apalitean Mountains." The map incorporates new data gathered by the explorer John Lederer in his remarkable explorations of the wilderness lands of western Virginia and the Carolinas (in a quest for an overland route to Asia). The first use of Lederer's data was in the Ogilby-Moxon map of Carolina (see Cumming 70). Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, no. 103; Phillips Maps p. 563; Pritchard & Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude, Mapping Colonial America, 69 (from the Custis atlas). VERY RARE.
Copper-plate engraving (512 x 627 mm) signed in the plate "W:Binneman Sculpsit," early outline coloring in yellow, pink and green. (Several tears to upper margin with minor losses to border, small hole in blank right-hand blank area, old folds reinforced from verso.) Provenance: Originally part of the Minute Book of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey (see lot 9).
AN EXTREMELY RARE MAP, ONE OF THE BEST EARLY GENERAL MAPS OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN AMERICA. It is frequently confused with a map by Daniel, Morden and Berry of ca 1678, although it differs in title and the other is without much of the detail depicted in the present map (see Déak, Picturing America, 63; Pritchard & Taliaferro 68). The principal map here depicts the English colonies from Nova Scotia and New England south to Virginia; to the west are depicted several of the Great Lakes (Lakes "Hurons," "Ontarius" and "Lake Erias or Felis"). The headwaters of the Potomac appear to connect directly with the Great Lakes, while the Northern reaches of the Hudson are fancifully drawn, with a large "Lake Iroquoise" in place of present-day Lake Champlain. French settlements along the St. Lawrence are accurately depicted, as is the Connecticut River and the village of "Dierfield," the northernmost English settlement on that river. In general, the map displays a wealth of detail, even including the St. Georges Bank and Nantucket shoals. This copy is the second state of three, with the title inside the cartouche expanded by the addition of Pennsilvania, and with the newly granted province indicated in the map. (In this copy, used by associates of Penn, the proprietors of East Jersey, Pennsylvania is emphatically outlined in pink.) East and West New Jersey are depicted, with their northern borders outlined to extend up the west bank of the Hudson nearly to the Esopus (Kingston).
At the lower right, a large inset shows the Carolinas (from below St. Augustine north to Cape Henry and the James River); including numerous inland Indian settlements and the oblique folds of the Appalachians, here captioned: "The Apalitean Mountains." The map incorporates new data gathered by the explorer John Lederer in his remarkable explorations of the wilderness lands of western Virginia and the Carolinas (in a quest for an overland route to Asia). The first use of Lederer's data was in the Ogilby-Moxon map of Carolina (see Cumming 70). Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, no. 103; Phillips Maps p. 563; Pritchard & Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude, Mapping Colonial America, 69 (from the Custis atlas). VERY RARE.