Henry Popple (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. THE FIRST MAP OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. London: William Henry Toms, 1733 [ca. 1735]. First edition, Babinski state 6. Folio (20 7/8" x 15 1/4", 529mm x 385mm): the letterpress contents (Babinski state 1, with "XII" for "XIII") pasted to the front paste-down and 21 engraved maps: the key map with hand-color in outline (Babinski state 1), and the twenty-part map in 15 double-page sheets and 5 single sheets. Bound in contemporary marbled paper boards backed with modern calf. On the spine, eight panels. Author and title ("POPPLE'S/ ATLAS") gilt to red morocco in the second panel. Modern backing, end-papers and guards. The boards faded, worn and frayed, with much of the marbled paper cover to the rear board perished. Unusually clean, with some peripheral tanning throughout. Pen trial to the front board. Manuscript ink shelf-marking (cost codes?) to the contents as well as to the title-cartouche. Henry Popple (d. 1743), whose major accomplishment was the present map, is himself something of a mystery. Born to a Huguenot family long connected with the Board of Trade-- forebears and successors alike -- Henry himself had but a short connection with the board, perhaps inheriting a position filled by his father William. His obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine notes that he was cashier to the late queen, viz. Caroline of Ansbach, consort of George II (d. 1737); this too he may have inherited from his father. Popple's achievement, however, is difficult to overestimate: the Map of the British Empire is the first of the thirteen original colonies (and the first to depict Georgia). With Mitchell's 1755 Map of the British and French Dominions in North America it lays claim to being one of the two most important maps in American history. The mapmaking was carried out by Clement Lempriere, chief draughtsman at the Tower of London. Together Popple and Lempriere sought to counter the expansive land-claims made by the France, although their reliance on (superior) French surveying somewhat negated the effect. Despite the endorsement by no less than the Astronomer Royal Edmund Halley, the Board of Trade -- to whom the map is dedicated -- never officially endorsed it, perhaps for this reason. The map was nonetheless used by colonial administrators and Britons alike. It incorporates important surveys of the Southeast, in particular Col. John Barnwell's 1727 survey of the "southern frontier" of British settlement. The insets are noteworthy for drawing on Burgis's "South Prospect of the Flourishing City of New York" (ca. 1720) and on Joliet's view of Quebec, which had only circulated in French maps. The tremendous size of the assembled map (four double-sheets plus a single mapsheet wide by four sheets tall), more than 8' square, appealed to the founding fathers: George Washington owned the key map, and Benjamin Franklin ordered two sets (one bound, one in sheets for joining and hanging) for the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1746. It was used in land disputes from the 1750's through to 1899, when it was used as evidence in the adjudication of the border between Venezuela and Guyana. Much scholarly attention has been paid to the states of the work. Because Popple sold it at the staggering price of 4 guineas (£4/4/-) -- devoid of the support and thus financing of the Board of Trade -- very few examples circulated of the early states. Babinski defines state 6 by the inclusion of arabic numerals at the top-right of each sheet but without change of publisher from Toms to Toms and Harding in 1739 (at a third the price, and consequently far greater numbers); he estimates the date of the present state to be 1735. Babinksi estimates that only one in three examples contains the contents sheet, and many circulated without the key map (also first state, and with its deckle edges preserved at the fore). Howes P 481 ("b"); Pritchard & Taliaferro, Degrees of Latitude 24 state 5 (dated 1734); Sabin 64140; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America p. 151.…

Folio. (21 x 15 inches). Engraved folding key map in Babinski State 4, showing the track line of Spanish Galleons. Large engraved wall map on 15 double-page and 5 full-page map sheets, numbered in plate and in contemporary ink manuscript, in Babinski State 7, with Harding and Toms's imprint on map sheet 17, on laid paper with Strasbourg Lily watermarks. Ink manuscript sheet key opposite key map, which also carries ink manuscript configuration guidance. Finely bound to style in period diced quarter calf with tips on marbled paper boards, six raised bands forming seven gilt-ruled compartments with gilt-titling in second. A bound example of the largest eighteenth-century wall map of the Thirteen Colonies, and the first to name all thirteen. Popple's was the first detailed map of British, French, and Spanish colonial possessions in North America. The most historically significant eighteenth-century cartographic work was the mapping of Colonial America. For the English, maps depicting territorial boundaries were vital due to claim conflicts with the French and Spanish. In this period, there was growing English concern over French explorations in the Mississippi Valley, which stimulated map production. Colonial officials needed accurate maps illustrating the land, waterways, forts, and settlements, but maps were also essential for domestic political reasons. They delineated and served to legitimize boundaries and helped define British economic interests in the New World. Popple's map of the British Empire in America, his only major cartographic work, was the largest printed map of the continent made during the colonial period. Popple produced this map under the auspices of Great Britain's Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, Spanish, and French colonies. "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent." [Goss] "Little is known of Henry Popple except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map." [McCorkle] Even with Popple's government connections, his map was not a commercial success until its publication was taken over by Toms and Harding in 1739. Regardless, it was of outsize historical importance. Popple's was the first map to name all the original Thirteen Colonies, and one of the first to show the new Colony of Georgia. The map was distributed by Great Britain's Board of Trade to the government of every colony in America. It was widely copied by other cartographers and remained the standard-bearer of North American maps for decades, in part because its issuance in both wall map and atlas forms allowed for a variety of usages. Benjamin Franklin, on May 22, 1746, ordered two copies of this map, "one bound the other in sheets," for the Pennsylvania Assembly. It was the only map of sufficient size and grandeur available. And the map is on a grand scale: if actually assembled it would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Its coverage extends from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. Several of the sections are illustrated with handsome pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence, Bermuda, and a number of others. Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 map, State 4, 7. Brown, Early Maps of the Ohio Valley 14. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1955-408. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps 216, 217. Degrees of Latitude 24. Goss, The Mapping Of North America, p.122. McCorkle, America Emergent 21. McSherry, Two Centuries of Prints in America: 1680-1880.…

Unbound. 1st Edition. Engraved map hand-colored in outline (Image: 19 1/2 x 19 in.; 49.5 x 48.3 cm. Sheet: 21 x 20 in.; 53.3 x 50.8 cm), decorative cartouche depicting Native Americans and European settlers, insets of Niagara Falls, Mexico, Quebec, and New York, small insets of 17 harbors including Boston, New York, Charleston, and Porto Bello. BINDING/CONDITION: Floated on sturdy card stock and enclosed in mylar. One or two tiny tears in left margin, margins lightly toned. (65B1D) FIRST EDITION, BABINSKI'S FIRST STATE of Popple's key map: without imprint below border at lower left, imprint bottom right signed "W. H. Toms. Sculp.," with the course of the Spanish galleons not present, Cape May and Cape Hinlopen not named off Delaware Bay. This copy is like "most, if not all, colored copies [which] do not have the 4 corner views or the title cartouche at bottom left colored" (Babinski). The key map accompanied Popple's first large-scale map of North America printed on twenty sheets. PROVENANCE: Evelyn and Eric P. Newman (their sale, Leslie Hindman, 12 October 2018, lot 102) REFERENCE: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map of the British Empire in America Key Map. Signed by Author(s).…

Size : 85x153 (mm), 3.35x6.02 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good; backed with acid free paper for long term preservation.

This chart depicts depth soundings in the Grand Bank off the coast of Newfoundland., Size : 350x135 (mm), 13.78x5.31 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good; laid down on acid-free paper for long-term preservation.

Incisione originale eseguita all`acquaforteeseguita da Jean-Baptiste Crepy risalente a circa il 1756 suuna lastraprecedente di Henry Popple. La mappa di Popple, conosciuta comunemente come \"Popple`s Key Map\" è considerata una delle più importanti del Nord America pubblicate nel XVIII secolo. La mappa di Popple copre dalla Baia di Hudson al Spanish Main, e dal Rio Grande ai Grand Banks. Sul lato destro del foglio ci sono diciassettepiccole mappe di alcuni distretti della città e del porto.Questa mappa è, come suggerisce il suo nome più comune `Popple`s Key Map`, una chiave per assemblare i fogli separati della massiccia mappa murale di Popple. La mappa Popple e le relative Key Maps furono originariamente pubblicate a Londra intorno al 1733. Seguirono diverse ristampe successive da parte di vari cartografi, inclusa un`edizione francese del 1746 di Le Rouge su cui si basa l`attuale mappa. Nel 1756, l`editore francese di mappe Crepy acquistò le tavole per la mappa chiave e iniziò a pubblicare una sua variante - di cui questa è un esempio. In questa edizione, pubblicata più come mappa indipendente che come chiave per la mappa murale più grande, gli indicatori numerici destinati a identificare i 20 fogli della mappa più grande sono stati rimossi. La mappa di Popple si rivelò molto influente, essendo la mappa più grande e dettagliata del Nord America mai pubblicata. Popple era impiegato presso il Board of Trade and Plantations. La sua grande mappa fu commissionata dal consiglio con l`intento di essere esposta in vari uffici delle colonie. Originariamente l`intento del Board of Tradeera che la nuova e più accurata mappa del Nord America di Popplefosse d`aiuto per risolvere dispute legate alle espansioni rivali delle colonie inglesi, spagnole e francesi. Popple raccolse materiale per realizzarela sua mappa dalle migliori fonti allora disponibili, tra cui la mappa del sud-est del colonnello Barnwell, la `Carte de la Louisane` di Delisle e la mappa delle Nazioni Irochesi di Cadwallader Colden, tra le altre. La conseguente vasta mappa illustrava il Nord America a un livello di dettaglio e precisione mai visto prima. Tuttavia, come prima mappatura britannica su larga scala del Nord America, la mappa Popple si rivelò enormemente influente e fu ampiamente copiata da altri cartografi di varie nazioni. Copie sono registrate nelle collezioni di luminari come George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams e Benjamin Franklin, solo per citarne alcuni. La mappa fu infine utilizzata sia da ufficiali francesi che britannici in varie trattative incluse quelle alla fine della Guerra franco-indiana (1754 - 1763). La mappa di Popple fu infine superata in importanza e accuratezza dalla mappa di John Mitchell del 1755. Esemplare in buono stato conservativo.…

The Thomas W. Streeter copy of the first large-scale map of North America, and the first printed map to show the thirteen colonies, in original boards, complete with the separate key map and the contents leaf. Henry Popple produced this map under the auspices of the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle disputes arising from the rival expansion of English, Spanish, and French colonies. "France claimed not only Canada, but also territories drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries - in practical terms, an area of half a continent" - Goss, p.122. The present copy of Popple's map would have been particularly useful in these early disputes. Benjamin Franklin, on May 22, 1746, ordered two copies of this map, "one bound the other in sheets," for the Pennsylvania Assembly. It was the only map of sufficient size and grandeur available - and the map is on a grand scale: if actually assembled it would result in a rectangle over eight feet square. Its coverage extends from the Grand Banks off Newfoundland to about ten degrees west of Lake Superior, and from the Great Lakes to the north coast of South America. Several of the sections are illustrated with handsome pictorial insets, including views of New York City, Niagara Falls, Mexico City, and Quebec, and inset maps of Boston, Charles-Town, Providence, Bermuda, and a number of others. "Little is known of Henry Popple except that he came from a family whose members had served the Board of Trade and Plantations for three generations, a connection that must have been a factor in his undertaking the map, his only known cartographic work" - McCorkle. Mark Babinski has made a detailed study of the issues and states of the Popple map. This copy is in Babinski's state 5: the imprint on sheet 20 reads, "London Engrav'd by Willm. Henry Toms 1733"; and sheet one includes the engraved figure "1" in the upper left corner just above the intersection of the two neat lines. The very rare small format table of contents is present. The key map is in Babinski's state 1, with only Toms' name below the border at the bottom and no additional place names in the seventeen small insets. Thomas W. Streeter's pencil notes on the front pastedown are significant with regard to the quality and provenance of this copy. He writes that "this fine copy in original binding and broad margins with the key map and leaf of contents attached to the final blank leaf [was acquired] from Roland Tree of Henry Stevens, Sept. 18, 1941. It was exchanged for a rebound copy lacking the key map and the leaf of contents and with narrow margins.I gave Stevens the former copy plus $75. The large key map is of considerable importance and I believe is somewhat rare as is the leaf of contents." Interestingly, Streeter's own notes on the provenance of this copy are at odds with the note in the catalogue of his sale, which states that he acquired this copy from Levinson in 1957. This copy sold at the Streeter sale to Sessler's in 1967 for $5250, acquired for H. Richard Dietrich Jr., and has remained in his Dietrich American Foundation since then. Mark Babinski, HENRY POPPLE'S 1733 MAP (New Jersey, 1998) (ref). BROWN, EARLY MAPS OF THE OHIO VALLEY 14. CUMMING, THE SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS 216, 217 (refs). DEGREES OF LATITUDE 24, state 4 (but with engraved number to sheet 1). FOWBLE, TWO CENTURIES OF PRINTS IN AMERICA 1680-1880 (1987) 6, 7. JOHN GOSS, THE MAPPING OF NORTH AMERICA (1990) 55 (key map only). GRAFF 3322. HOWES P481, "b." LOWERY 337, 338. McCORKLE 21. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.569. SABIN 64140. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.151. STREETER SALE 676 (this copy). STEPHENSON & McKEE, VIRGINIA IN MAPS, map II-18A-B. Folio. Original half calf and marbled paper boards, raised bands. Boards with moderate wear and rubbing, loss to marbled paper in a few places, joints starting to separate but still strong, spine ends chipped. Bookplate and pencil notes on front pastedown (see below), light rumpling to endpapers. Minor worming at lower margin near gutter on the first few leaves (no text affected), one instance of slight staining, but overall very clean internally. Near fine.…

A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto [sheet 7], showing New England., Size : 505x704 (mm), 19.88x27.72 (Inches), Hand Colored Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation.

N/A. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Engraving with incredible original hand-coloring. A key/location map to Popple's famous work. Sheet size: 25 x 21 1/8". Inventory#: p1018pmat.

Condition: Very Good. Detailed wall map of the North America published by Covens & Mortier in 4 sheets based on the famous Popple's map of North America., Size : , Original Hand Coloring, 0.

Condition: Very Good. Detailed map of the Great Lakes published by Covens & Mortier based on the famous Popple's map of North America., Size : 606x531 (mm), 23.875x20.875 (Inches), Original Hand Coloring, 0.

Condition: Very Good. Fine decorative map of the whole West Indies in two sheets by Mortier based on the large map of Americas by Popple: , Size : 600x533 (mm), 23.62x20.98 (Inches), Original Hand Coloring.

Depth soundings are given for the entry to Boston harbour., Size : 142x154 (mm), 5.59x6.06 (Inches), Hand Colored in Outline Very Good; laid down on acid-free paper for long-term preservation.

Condition: Excellent. Detailed East Coast map of the US (of the four sheets) published by Covens & Mortier based on the famous Popple's 20 sheet map of North America. This finely engraved map shows eastern Canada, New England, New York, New Jersy, Maryland and large parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina., Size : 603x530 (mm), 23.75x20.875 (Inches), Original Hand Coloring, 0.…