![[MEAD, Braddock, alias John GREEN (c.1688-1757)]. A Chart of the North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia. London: Thomas Jefferys, 19 Feb 1753.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07088_0205_000(110232).jpg?w=1)
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[MEAD, Braddock, alias John GREEN (c.1688-1757)]. A Chart of the North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia. London: Thomas Jefferys, 19 Feb 1753.
2° (610 x 420mm). Engraved map of the Americas, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on 6 double-page sheets, hand-coloured in outline, (each sheet 610 x 770mm). Each map titled along upper margin with inset tables of distances and positions, and various tracks of recent explorers. (Occasional slight discolouration.) Contemporary papered boards. Morocco backed cloth box.
An extraordinary map by one of the most bizarre mapmakers of 18th-century London. John Green was born Braddock Mead in Ireland before 1688, married in Dublin in 1715 and around 1717 moved to London. He was imprisoned in 1728 for trying to defraud an Irish heiress. He also worked with Chambers on his Universal Dictionary. After he got out of gaol he took the name of Green. He also worked for Cave, Astley, and Jefferys before committing suicide in 1757.
The chart of the Americas, Pacific and Atlantic was an ideal joint venture for Thomas Jefferys who had a reputation as an adventurous and innovative mapmaker. The map covers all the latest voyages to the Arctic and Bering Straits, as well as the Dutch voyages to the South Pacific. The map gives a clear state of play for exploration as of 1753, just before an explosion of activity in the Pacific and North- West Passage. This copy does not include the letterpress colour key slip or the Remarks on the chart, a separately published quarto pamphlet issued by Jefferys in the same year. A rare map, there appear to have been only 3 copies at auction in the last 25 years, Christie's London, 1980 £950; the Dupont copy, Christie's New York, October 1991 $12,000; Christie's New York, November 1996 $4000. Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, pp.45-47; Sabin 28538; Phillips Maps, p.109.
2° (610 x 420mm). Engraved map of the Americas, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on 6 double-page sheets, hand-coloured in outline, (each sheet 610 x 770mm). Each map titled along upper margin with inset tables of distances and positions, and various tracks of recent explorers. (Occasional slight discolouration.) Contemporary papered boards. Morocco backed cloth box.
An extraordinary map by one of the most bizarre mapmakers of 18th-century London. John Green was born Braddock Mead in Ireland before 1688, married in Dublin in 1715 and around 1717 moved to London. He was imprisoned in 1728 for trying to defraud an Irish heiress. He also worked with Chambers on his Universal Dictionary. After he got out of gaol he took the name of Green. He also worked for Cave, Astley, and Jefferys before committing suicide in 1757.
The chart of the Americas, Pacific and Atlantic was an ideal joint venture for Thomas Jefferys who had a reputation as an adventurous and innovative mapmaker. The map covers all the latest voyages to the Arctic and Bering Straits, as well as the Dutch voyages to the South Pacific. The map gives a clear state of play for exploration as of 1753, just before an explosion of activity in the Pacific and North- West Passage. This copy does not include the letterpress colour key slip or the Remarks on the chart, a separately published quarto pamphlet issued by Jefferys in the same year. A rare map, there appear to have been only 3 copies at auction in the last 25 years, Christie's London, 1980 £950; the Dupont copy, Christie's New York, October 1991 $12,000; Christie's New York, November 1996 $4000. Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America, pp.45-47; Sabin 28538; Phillips Maps, p.109.
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