Map Jefferys Thomas (2 results)

copper-engraved map, four sheets joined, approx. 104.5 x 98cm, [ 41" x 38.5"]., original outline colour; minute loss at few folds; with two detailed insets, one of the city of Boston and the other of Boston Harbour; with the large cartouche depicting the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock in 1630. A lovely example of this scarce map, some detail wear on the frame, beautifully matted and framed but, rare. Cumming. British Maps of Colonial America, pp45-47. McCorkle. New England in Early Printed Maps, 774-4. Stevens & Tree. Comparative Cartography, 33 (e). This is the fifth state of this work, which was first published in 1755 and updated periodically thereafter; this map was in Jefferys' posthumous (and notoriously scarce) American Atlas of 1775. Thomas Jefferys (1719-71) was a leading British cartographer and publisher; Braddock Mead c.1688-1757, a.k.a., John Green, was an Irishman who was imprisoned in Ireland on grounds of fraud, took on his alias when he was released, and moved to London. He became an extremely practiced and professional cartographer, and held his profession to the highest level. This map contains family names of real estate holders, as well as cartographic details of the New England states from the latitude of 44'30 in the north to Long Island Sound in the south, encompassing part of Maine, Rhode Island, what is now Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, northern Connecticut, and eastern New York from north of Crown Point through Lake George and down the Hudson River. One of the most important of North American maps, this version was published shortly before the Revolution.

38x 62cm, (15"x 24.5"), overall 55x 74.5cm, (21.5"x 29.5"), very good to fine condition. Kershaw 908, "Third State". Armstrong #25. Listed under Richard Gridley. Few maps anywhere manage to combine surveying, military, and historical information as successfully as this map. (Armstrong). An important map published in "Jefferys. The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America". The map was originally published on October 9, 1758 and is a composite of two plans of the Fort of Louisbourg and one inset map of the Bay of Garbarus. The first plan describes the successful 45 day siege of Louisbourg by the British that ended on June 17, 1745. The siege was comprised of nine regiments raised and equipped from New England under the command of Sir William Pepperill and supported by a fleet headed by Commodore Warren. Louisbourg would eventually be returned to the French as part of the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle in 1748. It has been argued that the siege of Louisbourg in 1745 "was one of the most important battles of King George's War, the North American conflicts of the War of Austrian Succession between Britain, France, and Spain.".