Bowles's New Pocket-Map of America, Divided into its Provinces, Colonies, Governments, etc. Exhibiting the British and Spanish Empires therein; Together with the Territories belonging to the French, Dutch, Danes, and Portuguese.
Publication date: 1780
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Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
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Condition: Used
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Very good. Wear along original centerfold. Verso repair to a fold separation. Closed margin tear professionally repaired on verso. Size 20 x 21.5 Inches. This is a c. 1780 Carington Bowles map of North America and South America. The map depicts the increasingly complex and unstable political situation following the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). It also highlights French and English ambitions for an inland Northwest Passage via Hudson Bay and speculations about a 'Sea of the West' dominating the Pacific Northwest - one of the last and greatest cartographic myths of the 18th century. A Closer Look Bowles uses color to define the colonial claims of European powers: English (yellow), French (blue), Spanish (green), Dutch (orange), and Portuguese (red). Text blocks discuss the Floridas, Quebec, colonial holdings in South America (particularly 'Buenos Ayres'), and the discovery of York Isle. North America Cities, towns, and villages, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, and Charles Town, are labeled, along with rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges. Native American nations are named throughout. Greenland appears near the top border. The British Colonies Bowles devotes considerable attention to the British colonies in North America - a point of great interest to his audience. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia stretch from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, reflecting their original coast-to-coast charters. Pennsylvania and New York appear below oversized iterations of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Southern Florida, at the time a British possession, is represented as an archipelago (the Everglades befuddled generations of cartographers). Dreaming of a Northwest Passage In northern Canada, Hudson's Bay is well mapped, with rivers, islands, and settlements illustrated. A note to the left states, 'All the Bays and Inlets on the West side of Hudson's Bay have been visited without appearance of success in the several attempt for the discovery of a Northwest Passage.' Over the preceding decades, numerous expeditions were launched to discover a Northwest Passage, long speculatively included in maps, despite never being discovered. Nonetheless, Bowles includes a suggestion of a Northwest Passage using the Port Nelson River as the gateway. This river connects with the 'L. Bourbon' which in turn connects with a 'system of great lakes' in central Canada that are tantalizingly close to the speculative Sea of the West. A river heads southwest from 'L. Ouinipique' (Lake Winnipeg) and traverses the Rocky Mountains before disappearing into the nebulously-drawn 'Western Sea'. Another enticing river system flows east from Lake Winnipeg through another 'system of lakes' to Lake Superior, suggesting a connection between Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence River. The Sea of the West A magnificent inland sea appears regularly in the American Pacific Northwest on maps created in the mid to late 18th century. This massive and apocryphal body of water, generally referred to as the 'Sea of the West' or 'Mer de l'Ouest', can trace its origins to the French cartographer Guillaume De L'Isle (1675 - 1726). De L'Isle himself never published a map incorporating a 'Sea of the West' (perhaps suggesting doubt?), but a manuscript map illustrating the Sea of the West did appear in his notes. It may be that De L'Isle was inspired by a c. 1630 Thames school manuscript map, now located at Yale, that features a geographically similar body of water described as a 'Branch of the South Sea', possibly a revisionist perspective on Verrazano's Sea. The earliest printed map to include the Sea of the West was probably Jean-Baptiste Nolin's 1742 L'Amerique ou le Nouveau Continent . It has been suggested that Nolin copied the relevant cartography from De l'Isle's manuscript, but it is more likely that information about the 'sea' verbally leaked, as Nolin's sea does not resemble De L'Isle's in any significant way. The first publication of the 'Sea of. …
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- Title
- Bowles's New Pocket-Map of America, Divided into its Provinces, Colonies, Governments, etc. Exhibiting the British and Spanish Empires therein; Together with the Territories belonging to the French, Dutch, Danes, and Portuguese.
- Author
- 1780 Bowles Map of North America and South America
- Publication year
- 1780
- Seller catalogs
- NORTH-AMERICA
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk.
This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map.
Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), Philip Lee Phillips Society, the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the International Map Collectors Society and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.
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