DESCRIPTION: Four early maps of the British colonies in North America on one page made 30+ years before the Revolutionary war, ca. 1745. These antique maps are based on the work of Herman Moll, a London-based cartographer and engraver.
Coverage on this antique copperplate engraving includes Newfoundland and Saint Lawrence Bay in Canada, New York, New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Carolina and Florida Territories, Virginia, and Maryland including Chesapeake Bay.
The four inset maps are titled as follows:
A. Newfoundland od. Terra Nova S. Laurentii Bay die fisch-bank Acadia… New Schotland.
B. New Engelland, New York, New Jersey, und Pensilvania.
C. Virgina und Maryland
D. Carolina ... Florida
Text below the maps elaborates on the maps, the Iroquis indians, and provides a brief dictionary of terms translated to German.
By the heirs of J. B. Homann. Homann Heirs (also "Homannianis Heredibus" or "Homann Erben" or "Heritiers de Homann") was a company established after the death of the famous German cartographer Johann Baptist Homann to carry on the map publishing business of the firm he started in the early 1700's. The designation "Homann Heirs" appears on maps published by that successor firm from about 1730 to 1848.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1745
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Atlantic Ocean
CONDITION: Good.
On chain-laid paper with watermark. A bit dirty and age-toned. Remains of binders stub on the verso. Stain at right in the margin.
COLORING: Old hand coloring.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 21
" x
19 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 53
PRICE: $495
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