HERMAN MOLL (GERMAN/BRITISH, C. 1654–1732)
HAND-COLOURED COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED MAP ON PAPER, DEDICATED 1715, LATER EDITION BY BOWLES & KING [C. 1731–1735]
AN EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT, SCARCE EARLY 18TH-CENTURY HISTORIC MAP POPULARLY REVERED AS THE “BEAVER MAP,” ENTITLED “A NEW AND EXACT MAP OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN ON YE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA”. THE LARGE-SCALE COMPOSITION DELINEATES THE CORRIDORS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, NEW SCOTLAND, NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENSILVANIA, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND CAROLINA WITH OUTLINE COLOURED TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES. FEATURES A CELEBRATED, ELABORATE RECTILINEAR PICTORIAL VIGNETTE IN THE LOWER RIGHT MATRIX DEPICTING AN EYEWITNESS-STYLE VIEW OF NIAGARA FALLS WITH A COLONY OF BEAVERS INDUSTRIOUSLY BUILDING A DAM, COMPLEMENTED BY AN INSET MATRIX MAP OF THE IMPROVED SECTOR OF CAROLINA SHOWING PRIVATE PARCEL LANDOWNERS, LOUISIANA, AND THE FORTIFICATIONS OF CHARLES TOWN.
BEARS A GRANDIOSE BARRICADE COAT OF ARMS AND AN ELABORATE FOLIATE CARTOUCHE DEDICATED “TO THE HONOURABLE WALTER DOWGLASS ESQ… CONSTITUTED CAPTAIN GENERAL AND CHIEF GOVERNOR OF ALL YE LEEWARD ISLANDS… 1715”. CRITICALLY BEARS A DETAILED, LATER COMMERCIAL IMPRINT ENGRAVED DIRECTLY ABOVE THE MILEAGE SCALE: “PRINTED AND SOLD BY THO. BOWLES… JOHN BOWLES… AND BY I. KING AT YE GLOBE IN YE POULTREY…” CONFIRMING THIS PIECE AS A RARE TIER-STATE TIED TO THE POST-1728 LONDON PUBLISHING CONSER CONSTRUCT. REAR CARD MOUNT MATRICES RETAIN TWO VINTAGE ANTIQUARIAN DEALER CATALOGUE CLIPPINGS, INCLUDING AN ENTRY FROM FRANCIS EDWARDS LTD. BOOKSELLERS.
24 X 40 IN PLATE
43.875 X 27.875 IN FRAMED
HERMAN MOLL “MAP OF THE DOMINIONS” C. 1731–1735
HERMAN MOLL (GERMAN/BRITISH, C. 1654–1732) HAND-COLOURED COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED MAP ON PAPER, DEDICATED 1715, LATER EDITION BY BOWLES & KING [C. 1731–1735] AN EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT, SCARCE EARLY 18TH-CENTURY HISTORIC MAP POPULARLY REVERED AS THE “BEAVER MAP,” ENTITLED “A NEW AND EXACT MAP OF THE DOMINIONS OF THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN ON YE CONTINENT OF NORTH…