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![[Two exact cuttings from the 'Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French & Spanish Settlements in North America, and the West Indies']](jpegs/41851.jpg)
[Two exact cuttings from the 'Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French & Spanish Settlements in North America, and the West Indies']
[Engraved by Thomas Jefferys after 'John Green', aka Braddock Mead.]
[London c.1755-1770.]
Two sections of an engraved map, both with original hand colour. Image area c. 270 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed.
Two cuttings exactly the same size showing the same section of Mead's 'Chart of the Atlantic Ocean', coloured differently to show English acquisitions. They show the top left quarter of the map, with North America from Labrador south to Florida and New Mexico, without the European and African coasts of the Atlantic. Whereas the original map, published 1753, was coloured to show the original colony charter limits for Virginia and Carolina (extending west across the Mississippi), both examples have been updated to 1755, showing the aftermath of Father Le Loutre’s War (1749-55), caused by the foundation of Halifax by the British (a line has been added marked 'Limits of Canada from Bellins Carte 1755). The earlier representation is coloured to show the situation at the begining of the Seven Years' War (French-Indian War, 1754-63), with the French controlling Canada; the later is apparently coloured to show the situation c.1770, when the 'Royal Proclamation of 1763', in which George III promised the Six Nation tribes that Europeans would not settle their lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, was renegotiated. Between 1768 and 1770, by the treaties of Hard Labour, Fort Stanwix and Lochaber, the English bought what is now Kentucky and West Virginia from the Cherokee, an area marked in green on the map. The original 'Chart of the Atlantic Ocean' is one of a six-sheet map of North and South America, an exceeding rare set. Obviously used by politican/military for comparison, maybe for a treaty?
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[Engraved by Thomas Jefferys after 'John Green', aka Braddock Mead.]
[London c.1755-1770.]
Two sections of an engraved map, both with original hand colour. Image area c. 270 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Trimmed.
Two cuttings exactly the same size showing the same section of Mead's 'Chart of the Atlantic Ocean', coloured differently to show English acquisitions. They show the top left quarter of the map, with North America from Labrador south to Florida and New Mexico, without the European and African coasts of the Atlantic. Whereas the original map, published 1753, was coloured to show the original colony charter limits for Virginia and Carolina (extending west across the Mississippi), both examples have been updated to 1755, showing the aftermath of Father Le Loutre’s War (1749-55), caused by the foundation of Halifax by the British (a line has been added marked 'Limits of Canada from Bellins Carte 1755). The earlier representation is coloured to show the situation at the begining of the Seven Years' War (French-Indian War, 1754-63), with the French controlling Canada; the later is apparently coloured to show the situation c.1770, when the 'Royal Proclamation of 1763', in which George III promised the Six Nation tribes that Europeans would not settle their lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, was renegotiated. Between 1768 and 1770, by the treaties of Hard Labour, Fort Stanwix and Lochaber, the English bought what is now Kentucky and West Virginia from the Cherokee, an area marked in green on the map. The original 'Chart of the Atlantic Ocean' is one of a six-sheet map of North and South America, an exceeding rare set. Obviously used by politican/military for comparison, maybe for a treaty?
[Ref: 41851] £950.00 view all images for this item
![[Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispers'd throu' the same.]](jpegs/44645.jpg)
[Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispers'd throu' the same.]
[Engraved by Thomas Jefferys after Braddock Mead.]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament and Printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street and Thomas Jefferys in the Strand. [n.d., 1768.]
One sheet only (of six). Engraved map with border, scarce but damaged. Sheet 440 x 545mm (17¼ x 21½"). Trimmed into plate, losing title above top border, damage in plate. Laid onto old canvas, in turn glued to board. Tears.
The bottom left sheet of Braddock Mead's important six-sheet map, 'A Chart of North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.' It shows the pre-Cook outline of New Zealand, Espiritu Santo (then posited to be the east coast of Australia), the Solomon Islands and Marquesas, with the routes of the major explorers marked. Despite being designed to be joined, each sheet had a printed border and an individual title, missing in this example, allowing the sheets to be sold separately. The map was originally published by Jefferys alone in 1753 but, after backruptcy in 1766 forced him to take on partners, this second edition was published with Sayer, apparently unrevised. A third state, published by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, has Cook's mapping of New Zealand.
[Ref: 44645] £680.00
[Engraved by Thomas Jefferys after Braddock Mead.]
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament and Printed for Robert Sayer in Fleet Street and Thomas Jefferys in the Strand. [n.d., 1768.]
One sheet only (of six). Engraved map with border, scarce but damaged. Sheet 440 x 545mm (17¼ x 21½"). Trimmed into plate, losing title above top border, damage in plate. Laid onto old canvas, in turn glued to board. Tears.
The bottom left sheet of Braddock Mead's important six-sheet map, 'A Chart of North and South America including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with the nearest coasts of Europe, Africa and Asia.' It shows the pre-Cook outline of New Zealand, Espiritu Santo (then posited to be the east coast of Australia), the Solomon Islands and Marquesas, with the routes of the major explorers marked. Despite being designed to be joined, each sheet had a printed border and an individual title, missing in this example, allowing the sheets to be sold separately. The map was originally published by Jefferys alone in 1753 but, after backruptcy in 1766 forced him to take on partners, this second edition was published with Sayer, apparently unrevised. A third state, published by Sayer and Bennett in 1775, has Cook's mapping of New Zealand.
[Ref: 44645] £680.00