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[Composite atlas of early printed and manuscript maps of the Americas, probably compiled in France]

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Description: Collection of 118 maps, 28 in manuscript, compiled sometime in the 18th century. Pagination is supplied in pencil in curatorial hand, rectos only numbered. The maps are primarily of the Americas, with special concentration in locations of particular interest to French imperial ambitions towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715). They are primarily of Dutch, French and Portuguese origin, and the texts are in French, Latin, Dutch, Portuguese and English. They range in date from 1616 to no later than 1720. Many are undated. 19 of the smaller maps, mounted two or three to a page, have been identified by Philip Burden as belonging to André Thévet's unpublished work Le Grand Insulaire. (cf. Burden, Philip. "A dozen lost sixteenth-century maps of America found" Map Collector (Spring 1996), p.30-32).
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Call number: 109496
Dimensions: 53 cm

A map of ye English Empire in ye continent of America : viz Virginia, Mary Land, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsilvania. Sold by R. Morden at ye Atlas in Cornhill neer ye Royal Exchange London. W.Binneman sculpsit

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Alternate title from head of text. This is state 2 of the map, as identified by Burden. See 71000 for a reproduction of the 2nd state of this map, 70999 for a reproduction of the 1st state of this map. Surround with many notes, starting "The designe of this map is to divert one common and notorious Abuse that the Dutch and French (whose Maps being the fondlings of this age) have imposed upon us..." Folder also contains a rather comprehensive description of the map addressed to Chester M. Cate, Huntington Library from Henry N. Stevens, Map and Book dealer, London. Submap: Virgina south to Florida. MS note: X71005. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Burden, map 514. Verso Text: MS note: 71005.

71005

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Kashnor collection of early American maps

Manuscripts

The 85 manuscripts, known as the Kashnor maps, are named after the proprietor of the Museum Book Store, from which they were purchased. They include original maps and copies of cartographic renderings dating from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries. The maps focus primarily on sites and land involved in the French and Indian War in New York and Canada (67 maps), but there are also maps related to the American Revolution (3 maps), and ones of Central America (4 maps), and other regions (10 maps). The collection also contains a drawing of a dart or fire-arrow retrieved near Fort William Henry after Montcalm's attack in 1757. Some of the maps in the collection are hand drawn copies of earlier maps. These include ones executed during the French and Indian War. There are also four maps charting the voyages of the H.M.S. Asia in 1848-1851 that were copies made in 1856. Consequently, the creation dates of the Kashnor maps are from 1754-1856.

mssHM 15399-15475

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A New and Accurate Map of North America

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A version of Kitchin's map. Note South Carolina is split in two sections. Cartouche: framed with coat of arms. Sub map: Map of Hudsons Bay &c. MS note: 140842. "(wherein the Errors of all proceeding British, French, and Dutch Maps, respecting the rights of Great Britain, France & Spain, & the Limits of each of His Majesty's Provinices, are Corrected) Humbly Inscribed to the Honourable Charles Townshend, one of the Right Honourable Lords Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain &c. By his Most Obliged, most Obedient and Very Humble Servant Huske." "Tho: Kitchin Sculpt." Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche Sub-maps.

140842

Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-21v, 54v-95v, 218, 139-163v, 173-177v. [Meditations]. Dutch. A collection of meditations, sermons and prayers arranged according to the liturgical year, with many excerpts from such authors as Bonaventure, Bernard, Augustine, Anselm and Gregory. The text includes numerous added/inserted shorter texts; it is misbound and many leaves are missing. ff. 177v (rubric only), 182-217v, 164-172v. [Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen] Van geestelijke opclimmingen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of De spiritualibus ascensionibus. ff. 218-231. [Pseudo Bernard] Prekel der mynnen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of Stimulus amoris; for the Latin text, see PL 184:953-966. Back flyleaf. [Breviary?] Latin. Containing part of the rite for visiting the sick, here with feminine forms in the original text, and the masculine forms supplied in superscript. Parchment 105 x 145 mm (measurement as given are from a cropped leaf). Germany, between 1150-1199.

mssHM 1048

Portolan atlas, Portuguese : [cartographic material] : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-181v. [Portolan atlas]. Portuguese. Contains 18 maps, etc.: ff. 25v-26, Black Sea, Anatolia; ff. 28v-29, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf; ff. 31v-32, Southern South America; ff. 34v-35, Northwest South America, Central America, and West Indies; ff. 37v-38, East coast of South America; ff. 40v-41, East coast of North America and West Indies; ff. 43v-44, North coast of South America, east coast of North America and West Indies; ff. 46v-47, Mediterranean and eastern Europe; ff. 49v-50, Northern Atlantic Ocean, European coast, Greenland, Iceland; ff. 52v-53, Northwest Africa, Mediterranean area, southern Europe; ff. 55v-56, South Atlantic Ocean, southern Africa; ff. 58v-59, Southern Africa and southwest Indian Ocean; ff. 61v-62, Arabia, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf; ff. 64v-65, Northern Indian Ocean, India; ff. 67v-68, Southern portion of east coast of Asia, part of East Indies; ff. 70v-71, Northern portion of east coast of Asia, part of East Indies; ff. 73v-74, Western coast of United States and Mexico; ff. 76v-77, Southern portion of west coast of Mexico and Central America. Laid in: Unrelated black ink map of Mexico City and environs, made after 1652, 313 x 430 mm., in Spanish.

mssHM 39

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A map of the British and French settlements in North America

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Kashnor notes, "Locates all the French forts in the Ohio and Louisiana territories. A scarce map, issued as a supplement to a magazine during the Old French War." Variant of 105:662. RLIN record gives date and appeared in information. Shows separate North and South parts of South Carolina. Submap: Fort Frederick at Crown Point built by the French in 1731. [Lake Champlain]. MS note: 297 (on backing). Prime meridian: London. Relief: no. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned GR Lion rampant in seal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 297 (on backing).

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[Composite atlas of early printed and manuscript maps of the Americas, probably compiled in France]

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