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Important Cartography from the Niewodniczanski Collection
JEFFERYS, Thomas (c.1719-1771)
The American Atlas, or a geographical description of the whole continent of America […] engraved on forty-nine copper plates. London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and Bennett, 1778 (1779).
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JEFFERYS, Thomas (c.1719-1771)
The American Atlas, or a geographical description of the whole continent of America […] engraved on forty-nine copper plates. London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and Bennett, 1778 (1779).
‘One of the most authoritative and comprehensive atlases of America’ (Walter Ristow).
Jefferys was geographer to the Prince of Wales, later King George III, and the leading map supplier of his day. His American Atlas is the most important 18th-century atlas for America, described by Ristow as a ‘geographical description of the whole continent of America, as portrayed in the best available maps in the latter half of the eighteenth century... as a major cartographic reference work it was, very likely, consulted by American, English, and French civilian administrators and military officers during the Revolution.’ Jefferys died in November 1771 and his successors, Robert Sayer and John Bennett, gathered together these separately published maps to form The American Atlas.
‘[The maps] are based on an assemblage of works by different surveyors and cartographers. Their size and detail makes them an important source for North America, and for the American colonies in particular, just prior to the Revolutionary War’ (Shirley).
The maps in this copy bear publication dates ranging from 1774 to 1779, most are dated 1775 and three 1779 (‘A new and correct map of North America, with the West India Islands’, ‘North America from the French of Mr D’Anville’, and ‘A map of South America … with several improvement and additions and the newest discoveries’). ESTC N45523; Shirley, British Library, T.JEF-2c; Streeter sale I:72; this edition not in Phillips, cf. 1165, 1166 and 1169 (editions of 1775, 1776 and 1782); Walter W. Ristow, bibliographical note in the facsimile of the 1776 edition (1973).
Folio (558 x 400 mm). Letterpress title and index leaf. 23 hand-coloured engraved maps on 30 sheets, folding or double-page, one single page, by Henry Mouzon, Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, William Scull, Thomas Jefferys, Samuel Holland and others, title, text and plates mounted on new guards (neat repaired tears and strengthening to some maps, mostly along folds and margins, some restoration to corners and edges, scattered light spotting). Modern antique-style mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, upper cover with large red leather label lettered in gilt, new endpapers.
The American Atlas, or a geographical description of the whole continent of America […] engraved on forty-nine copper plates. London: Printed and sold by R. Sayer and Bennett, 1778 (1779).
‘One of the most authoritative and comprehensive atlases of America’ (Walter Ristow).
Jefferys was geographer to the Prince of Wales, later King George III, and the leading map supplier of his day. His American Atlas is the most important 18th-century atlas for America, described by Ristow as a ‘geographical description of the whole continent of America, as portrayed in the best available maps in the latter half of the eighteenth century... as a major cartographic reference work it was, very likely, consulted by American, English, and French civilian administrators and military officers during the Revolution.’ Jefferys died in November 1771 and his successors, Robert Sayer and John Bennett, gathered together these separately published maps to form The American Atlas.
‘[The maps] are based on an assemblage of works by different surveyors and cartographers. Their size and detail makes them an important source for North America, and for the American colonies in particular, just prior to the Revolutionary War’ (Shirley).
The maps in this copy bear publication dates ranging from 1774 to 1779, most are dated 1775 and three 1779 (‘A new and correct map of North America, with the West India Islands’, ‘North America from the French of Mr D’Anville’, and ‘A map of South America … with several improvement and additions and the newest discoveries’). ESTC N45523; Shirley, British Library, T.JEF-2c; Streeter sale I:72; this edition not in Phillips, cf. 1165, 1166 and 1169 (editions of 1775, 1776 and 1782); Walter W. Ristow, bibliographical note in the facsimile of the 1776 edition (1973).
Folio (558 x 400 mm). Letterpress title and index leaf. 23 hand-coloured engraved maps on 30 sheets, folding or double-page, one single page, by Henry Mouzon, Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, William Scull, Thomas Jefferys, Samuel Holland and others, title, text and plates mounted on new guards (neat repaired tears and strengthening to some maps, mostly along folds and margins, some restoration to corners and edges, scattered light spotting). Modern antique-style mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, upper cover with large red leather label lettered in gilt, new endpapers.
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