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ADMIRALTY. - J. & C. WALKER (engravers)

[Charleston Harbor] America East Coast Charleston Harbour from the United States Coast Survey 1858

London: published at the Admiralty, April 25th 1861. Engraved map, with some contemporary hand-colouring and annotation. Sheet size: 26 3/8 x 38 5/8 inches.

A fine detailed chart, based on information gathered by the United States Coast Survey.

An interesting example with early manuscript additions "Federal Approaches under [General] Gilmore [in 1863]," with Federal batteries and trenches marked in red, and Confederate positions marked in green. Charleston Harbor was virtually under siege by the Union from 1863 until 1865, and fell finally due to Sherman's advance from the West.

#19723$1,500.00
 
 
ARROWSMITH, John (1790-1873)

Map of Texas, compiled from Surveys recorded in the Land Office of Texas and other Official Surveys.

London: Arrowsmith, 1858. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour. Sheet size: 26 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches.

The great European map of the Republic of Texas.

Arrowsmith's map was probably the first to show the full extent of the Texas claim to the region of the upper Rio Grande, an area included within Texas borders until the Compromise of 1850. The map includes two insets, one showing the geographical relationship of Mexico, Texas and the United States (prior to the Mexican War), and another inset showing Galveston Bay, with soundings illustrating for the traveler safe routes to Houston and Galveston. The popularity and general acceptance of the map was shown by the fact that many mapmakers copied liberally from Arrowsmith's map, including some of its errors. As one of the earliest maps to contain information from the General Land Office of Texas, the map located Indian tribes, major roadways, and included editorial comments for the benefit of the future traveler to Texas, such as "excellent land," "valuable land," "rich land," and "delightful country."
This issue of the map extends the outline colouring to include the recently formed southeastern counties.

Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900; plate 32; Tooley, 'Printed Maps of America', in Map Collector's Circle 69, item 262.

#20131$27,500.00
 
 
ARROWSMITH, John (1790-1873)

Map of Texas, compiled from Surveys recorded in the Land Office of Texas and other Official Surveys.

London: Arrowsmith, 1841. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour, in very good condition, but for an expertly repaired tear (with no loss) at upper right. Sheet size: 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches.

The great European map of the Republic of Texas.

Arrowsmith's map was probably the first to show the full extent of Texas's claim to the region of the upper Rio Grande, an area included within Texas's boundaries until the Compromise of 1850. The map includes two insets, one showing the geographical relationship of Mexico, Texas and the United States, and another inset showing Galveston Bay, with soundings illustrating for the traveler the best route to the new city of Houston. The popularity and general acceptance of the map was shown by the fact that many mapmakers copied liberally from Arrowsmith's map, including some of its errors. As one of the earliest maps to contain information from the General Land Office of Texas, the map located Indian tribes, major roadways, and included editorial comments for the benefit of the future traveler to Texas, such as "excellent land," "valuable land," "rich land," and "delightful country."

In spite of its few errors, the map was certainly the best information on Texas geography available in Europe during the decade in which the political fate of the new Republic was of international concern.

The present copy is the Kennedy state, from William Kennedy's The Rise, Progress and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. The imprint line gives the publication date as "17 April 1841." When the map is found in the London Atlas, it is usually the third state dated "8 June 1843."

Martin & Martin, Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900; plate 32; Tooley, 'Printed Maps of America', in Map Collector's Circle 69, item 262.

#5901$27,500.00
 
 
BAUMAN, Sebastian

[Battle of Yorktown] To His Excellency Genl. Washington Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America. This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down, and is Most humbly dedicated by his Excellency's Obedient and very humble servant, Sebastn. Bauman, Major of the New York or 2nd Regt of Artillery

Philadelphia: 1782. Copper engraving, with original hand-colouring. "References to the British Lines" is set within a scroll in the upper right-hand corner. At lower center is a lengthy key or "Explanation" of the battlefield, which identifies and describes eighteen key locations on the battlefield. The explanation is set within a rococo frame, which in turn is enclosed by the flags of the United States and France, cannon, arms, and other spoils of battle. Some minor creases on verso from previous folding, restoration to margins beyond platemark. Image size (including text): 25 1/2 x 17 7/16 inches. Sheet size: 27 x 18 7/8 inches.

"A cornerstone document of our national heritage" (Nebenzahl, Atlas, p. 184.)

Within three days of the British surrender on October 19, 1781, Major Sebastian Bauman, an American artillery officer, took the field and carefully surveyed the terrain and battle positions at Yorktown. A native of Germany, Bauman had emigrated to America after service in the Austrian army. During the Revolution, he served in the campaigns in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and was in command of the artillery at West Point, before joining Washington at the siege of Yorktown.

Bauman spent six days surveying the battlefield at Yorktown. His manuscript draft was quickly sent to Philadelphia where it was engraved by Robert Scot to be sold by subscription. The map was advertised in The New York Packet and the American Advertiser in March 1782:

"Major Bauman of the New York, or Second Regiment of Artillery, Has Drawn a Map of the Investment of York and Gloucester, in Virginia. Shewing how those posts were besieged in form, by the allied army of America and France; the British lines of defence, and the American and French lines of approach, with part of York River, and the British ships as they then appeared sunken in it before Yorktown; and the whole encampment in its vicinity./ This Map, by desire of many gentlemen, will shortly be published in Philadelphia, in order that the public may form an idea of that memorable siege. Those gentlemen who incline to become subscribers will apply to the printer hereof; where the conditions will be shewn, and subscription money be received."

This was the only detailed battle plan of Yorktown published in America. As a participant for the winning side, Bauman was able to spend more time surveying the field than the British engineers who were bottled up in Yorktown. Thus he was able to include an extensive area to the south of the town that does not appear on the best British plans, such as those published by Faden and Des Barres. The location of the French and American positions is necessarily more detailed and informed. As it appeared in print before the British plans, it was the first survey of the Siege of Yorktown made available to the American public.

Margaret Pritchard notes that the plan was also an effective piece of propaganda: "In addition to providing substantial detailed military information, this map is also interesting for its artistic composition. Yorktown, Gloucester Point, and troop positions are confined primarily to the top half of the map. The lower half is dominated by the explanation that is embellished with ornaments of war. The shape of the scrollwork cartouche surrounding the explanation, with flags and banners that thrust upward from both sides, force the eye to the center of the image. "Here, in an open space, is the very heart of the map, 'The field where the British laid down their Arms'. " It is this field that is omitted from all of the British battle plans of Yorktown.

Bauman's plan is a legendary rarity which almost never appears on the market. Its scarcity is due to the fact that it was separately published by subscription only. Relatively few sheets were printed, and very few of those survived. Wheat & Brun locate eight institutional copies, but not one in Virginia. To these, we can add four copies known to us in private American collections.

Perhaps Nebenzahl summarized the importance of the map best: "Bauman's splendid map, dedicated to General Washington, reflects his formal European training in topographical engineering. It is the only American survey of the culmination of the great struggle for independence and a cornerstone document of our national heritage."

Alexander O. Vietor, The Bauman Map of the Siege of Yorktown; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, p. 199; Degrees of Latitude, 68; Nebenzahl, A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 189; Nebenzahl, Atlas of the American Revolution, Map 48; Wheat & Brun, Maps and Charts Published in America Before 1800: A Bibliography, entry 541; Fite & Freeman, A Book of Old Maps, pp. 287-288; Stokes & Haskell, American Historical Prints, pp. 57-58; Virginia Magazine of History & Biography 39 (1931), reproduced opp. p. 104.

#20696$250,000.00
 
 
BOWEN, Emmanuel (c.1720-67)

[North and South Carolina] A New & Accurate Map of the Provinces of North & South Carolina &c. Drawn from late surveys and regulated by Astronomical Observations.

London: E. Bowen, 1747. Copper-engraved map, with full margins, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches.

A very fine eighteenth-century map of the Carolinas, by a respected English cartographer

This very interesting and highly detailed map depicts the east coast from the mouth of Chesapeake Bay to northern Florida, and features all of North and South Carolina and Georgia. It was included in Bowen's atlas A Complete System of Geography, one of the finest English geographies of the mid-eighteenth century, first published in 1744, with the present map being included in the second edition of 1747. Bowen derived this map from one of the twenty sheets of Henry Popple's monumental map of the continent, Map of the British Empire in North America (London, 1733). This map is immensely detailed, and is a fascinating historical document regarding the development of the American South during the British colonial era. The map shows that the coasts of the Carolinas were then relatively well-settled, organized into counties, with large towns connected by roads. The colony of Georgia, although founded only in 1733, had developed well past its initial beginnings in Savannah, with a new network of bastions, including Forts William and Augusta defending its frontiers. The Spanish base of St. Augustine, looms to the south, widely considered to have been the greatest threat to British hegemony in the region. Inhabited by the odd British outpost, the interior of the South is still shown to be a wilderness, with the borders between colonies shown to be somewhat ambiguous. The interior was then considered to be a dangerous land still in the possession of native tribes and subject to incursions from French and Spanish military expeditions. This point is highlighted by the interesting note that appears near the center of the map which reads: "The Cherokee Indians is a Numerous & Warlike Nation & as they are in Amity & Alliance with the Subjects of ye King of Great Britain, they serve as a powerful Barrier to Carolina & Georgia in the present war against France & Spain."

Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, 263

#19692$1,500.00
 
 
British Hydrographic Office

[North Carolina coast] Albemarle Sound to Cape Fear

London: Published by the Admiralty, 1886. Engraving. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition with the exception of some expertly mended tears along the edges of the sheet. Image size: 25 1/4 x 38 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 27 1/4 x 40 inches.

A superb admiralty chart of the North Carolina coast, produced by the British Hydrographic Office.

The British Hydrographic Office was founded in 1795 by George III, who appointed Alexander Dalrymple as the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty. He immediately set to work but it was not until 1800 that the first Admiralty chart was published of the waters around Quiberon Bay in Brittany. Unlike the U. S. Coast Survey the Hydrographic Office was given permission to sell charts to the public and they produced a great number of sea charts covering every corner of the globe. Most of the Admiralty charts produced by the Hydrographic Office delineated coastline as well as high and low water marks and record depth of water as established by soundings. In addition these charts included information on shoals, reefs, and other navigational hazards that plagued mariners across the world. Thanks to the innovations of Sir Francis Beaufort, who developed the Beaufort Scale of wind strength, the British Hydrographic Office became one of the leading producers of sea charts.

This large chart covers the Albemarle Sound to Cape Fear in North Carolina. Water depths and sand bars are all carefully recorded, as are the various lighthouses along the coastline. There are two inset maps of Hatteras Inlet and Ocracoke Inlet on the left edge of the sheet, as well as three compasses to the right. This is an important sea chart of this area and a wonderful example of the maps produced by the British Hydrographic Office.

#15994$2,500.00
 
 
British Hydrographic Office

[South Carolina coast] Savannah River to Saint Helena Sound including Calibogue Sound, Port Royal and Broad River

London: Published by the Admiralty, May 1882. Engraving. Printed on wove paper. In excellent condition. Image size: 25 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches. Sheet size: 27 x 40 inches.

A fantastic Admiralty chart of the Savannah River to St. Helena Sound, produced by the British Hydrographic Office.

The British Hydrographic Office was founded in 1795 by George III, who appointed Alexander Dalrymple as the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty. He immediately set to work but it was not until 1800 that the first Admiralty chart was published of the waters around Quiberon Bay in Brittany. Unlike the U. S. Coast Survey the Hydrographic Office was given permission to sell charts to the public and they produced a great number of sea charts covering every corner of the globe. Most of the Admiralty charts produced by the Hydrographic Office delineated coastline as well as high and low water marks and record depth of water as established by soundings. In addition these charts included information on shoals, reefs, and other navigational hazards that plagued mariners across the world. Thanks to the innovations of Sir Francis Beaufort, who developed the Beaufort Scale of wind strength, the British Hydrographic Office became one of the leading producers of sea charts.

This large chart covers the Port Royal Sound including the Savannah River, the Calibogue Sound, and the Broad River. Water depths and sand bars are all carefully recorded, as are the various lighthouses along the coastline. This is an important sea chart of this area and a wonderful example of the maps produced by the British Hydrographic Office.

#15996$2,750.00
 
 
BRUFF, Joseph Goldsborough (1804-1889)

The State of Florida compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers from the best authorities

[Washington]: 1846. Engraved folded map by McLelland after Bruff, William A. Whitehead and Jacob Edmund Blake. In good condition except for some small clean repaired tears. Recent red morocco-backed cloth box, titled in gilt on 'spine'. Sheet size: 47 x 43 1/2 inches.

A large, important, and informative map of Florida, one of the first produced after Florida's admission to the Union on March 3, 1845, carrying much useful military information.

The map exhibits great detail and precision, especially in the coastline, and gives much information on the physical and cultural geography of the state. Numerous forts and military camps are located. This map would have provided important information on Florida at the onset of the Mexican War in 1846, in which there was much action in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Coastal islands are shown, as well as keys, rivers, and lakes. Great care is taken to note townships, pointing out which have been sectioned or unsectioned, and which have been surveyed or resurveyed. A note in the western Everglades marks the "district assigned to the Seminoles by the arrangement of Gen. Macomb May 18th 1839" and further remarks "N.B. 20 miles around this district is reserved from survey till the Seminoles are removed." The map contains three insets, showing "Key West;" "Mouths of the Suwanee River and the Cedar Keys Showing the Western Terminus of the Proposed Rail Road. From Lieut. Blake's Map;" and "General Map of Part of Florida Included Between Cedar Keys and St. John's River. From Lieut. Blake's Map."

Joseph Goldsborough Bruff was a civilian draftsman and artist with the Bureau of Topographical Engineers. He participated in the California Gold Rush, and also worked on the United States Capitol as an ornamental designer and draftsman. Bruff earliest important map was issued by Henry S. Tanner in 1839, and was of the lands ceded by Indian tribes to the U.S. government by treaty, and lands occupied by the tribes. Bruff went on to produce important maps during the Mexican War (of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec) and the Civil War (of battles in Virginia and Maryland).

Phillips Maps, p.284; OCLC 166643473

#21245$1,500.00
 
 
BÖŸE, Herman

A Map of the State of Virginia reduced from the nine sheet map of the state, in conformity to law

[Philadelphia]: Engraved by H. S. Tanner and E.B. Dawson, [1827]. Engraved map by Tanner and others after Böÿe, printed on 4 sheets, hand coloured in outline, dissected into 40 sections and linen-backed as issued. (Minor toning overall, minor separations at folds). Folds into contemporary half roan over marbled paper boards, spine lettered in gilt "Map of Virginia." Provenance: John Randolph, Roanoke, Virginia (later inscription on pastedown of covers by); A. G. Hundley (inscription indicating Randolph provenance "from his friend & bro. A. Y. Hundley"); Reverend C. Braxton Bryan (signature and inscription "Given me at the Council that met in Fredericksburg in May-21-24 1879"). Sheet size: approximately 31 1/4 x 39 1/2 inches.

A rare example of Böÿe's famed map of Virginia.

In 1816, the Virginia legislature passed ordinances for each county to provide an accurate chart, so that a state map could be compiled. "Virginia's legislature no doubt desired an accurate cartographic base for the planning of infrastructure, a motive that had also inspired earlier projects in northern states" (Virginia in Maps, p. 121). In 1819, John Wood was appointed chief surveyor for the project. After completing a large number of manuscript county survey maps, Wood died in 1822. "In order to complete the mapping project after Wood's death, the governor appointed Herman Böÿe, a Danish immigrant living in Richmond. Although the county surveys and maps were finished, it took Böÿe, a trained engineer, another five years to bring the project to a successful conclusion ... The state contracted with Henry S. Tanner, of Philadelphia, one of the most successful map and atlas publishers of the day" (Virginia in Maps, p.122).

Two versions of the map were produced: a very large version printed on nine sheets at a scale of one inch to the mile, of which 400 copies were printed and 250 offered for sale at $20 each; and a reduced version, as the present copy, printed on four sheets on a scale of one inch to ten miles, of which 800 copies were printed, with 650 offered for sale at $6 each. "Interestingly, the profits of the latter sale went toward the financing of the State Library (now known as the Library of Virginia), which had been established in 1823" (Virginia in Maps, p.122).

The Böÿe map would become the standard map of the State for much of the century, with a revised edition published in 1859. Copies of both the large and reduced version of the original 1826 map are very scarce, with no copies of either appearing in the auction records or the Antique Map Price Record. The last copy of the reduced version that we could trace on the market was sold by Edward Eberstadt in 1963.

"Scarce full color map not in Phillips. Includes insets of tables, Memoranda, and Geological remarks. Even though a reduction of the huge nine sheet map this is still an imposing map, full of much detail and engraved in Tanner's best style" (Rumsey).

The present copy of the Böÿe map carries an important Virginia provenance to John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833). At the time of the production and publication of this map, Randolph served as a representative from Virginia to Congress, with multiple terms in the House and one in the Senate. He was a leading southern anti-Federalist and a fierce advocate of state rights. As such, the publication of a definitive map of his own state would have been a source of great pride. The inscription on the endpaper of the case to this copy of the map, which indicates the Randolph provenance, is penned by Alexander Y. Hundley, presenting the map to C. Braxton Bryan. Hundley, born about 1848, was the nephew of Elisha E. Hundley -- John Randolph's neighbor and friend. It seems likely that Randolph gifted the map to Elisha Hundley, and with no sons of his own, the map was in turn given to Elisha Hundley's nephew. Both Alexander Hundley and Bryan were active in the Episcopal Church, with Hundley serving as a rector and Bryan as a clergyman. The "council" referred to in Bryan's inscription was the eighty-fourth annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Virginia.

Not in Phillips. Rumsey 3130 (without the original case); Ristow, pp. 122-123; Stephenson and McKee, Virginia in Maps, pp. 121-123.

#23598$57,500.00
 
 
[CATESBY, Mark (1683-1749)] - Johan Michael SELIGMANN (1720-1762)

[Southeastern North America] Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium cum partibus adjacendibus delineato ad exemplar Londinense in lucem edita a..., Seligmann

Nuremberg: Seligmann, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in good condition apart from an expertly repaired split to an old fold. Sheet size: 19 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches.

A fine copy of the first and only Continental edition of a 'Map of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands,' here with particularly fine period hand-colouring.

The English edition of this map (first published in Vol.II of Mark Catesby's Natural History of South Carolina, and the Bahama Islands, London, 1743) is now virtually unobtainable. This has greatly increased the desirability of this fine Continental version, which is itself quite scarce. Seligmann's Sammlung verschiedener auslaendischer und seltener Vögel was published in nine parts between 1749 and 1776, and included a German translation of Catesby's work with re-engraved versions of his images, including the present map. Catesby's work was the first natural history of American flora and fauna. The Catesby scholar, G.F. Frick calls this map 'a good representation of the better English ideas about the geography of North America' in the period.

It is not generally recognized that the English version of this map appeared in two states. On the first state of 1743, the territory on both sides of the Mississippi was coloured green, to indicate that the entire region was in the hands of the French. A second state was included in the third edition of the Natural History in 1771, altered to show the political realignment brought about by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The territory on the east bank of the Mississippi, which had been acquired by Britain, was now coloured green; the territory to the West, which now belonged to Spain, was coloured blue. The present German edition corresponds with the English first state. The map shows Southeastern North America as far west as the Mississippi River, plus the nearby Caribbean islands of the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola

Cf. Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps (1998 ed.), 210 & 292

#18372$15,000.00
 
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