124 CHAMPLAIN, Samuel de. Carte geographique de la Novelle franse en son vray mondia. Paris, 1612. Collée sur papier fort. Déchirure à droite de la carte sur 9 cm restaurée. Marge inférieure droite manquante.- Laid down on strong paper. Repair of tear 9 cm into engraved area in the right hand part of the map. The lower part of the right hand margin is missing, not affecting the engraved area. 255 x 340 mm.

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¤ Premier état de la carte publiée par Champlain dans "Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain" fin 1612 ou début 1613. Elle figure la découverte de la baie d'Hudson par Henry Hudson.
- First state of the map published by Champlain in "Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain" in either late 1612 or early 1613. The discoveries of Hudson have been incorporated and provide a remarkably accurate interpretation of the geography of the region. The map related the numerous voyages of Champlain to 1611, and the English further to the north. Most particularly recorded is the discovery by Henry Hudson of the bay named after him. It is noted, with the legend noticeably in English, "the bay wher hudson did winter". - Kershaw, Early printed maps of Canada, 61 ; Burden, The Mapping of North America, 161.

125 BELLIN, N. Carte de la partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada. Paris, 1744. Collé anciennement sur papier fort. Petit manque de papier à droite le long de la bordure, déchirure à droite de la carte sur 12 cm restaurée. - Laid on strong paper, a small loss of paper along right border, repair of tear in the right part of the map 12 cm into engraved area. 400 x 555 mm.

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¤ Nicolas Bellin's landmark map of maritime Canada in a first appearance, from "Charlevoix's Histoire.." in 1744. Later he used the map as a basis for his equivalent maps of 1745 and 1755. This map was also copied by Collyer and Jeffery's, E.Bowen and Turner of Boston. Engraved by Desbrulins. No reference number in lower margin. - Kershaw, Canada, 684-5; JCBL, New England in early maps 744.2.

126 DE VAUGONDY, R. / FORTIN. Carte du Canada et des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale Par le S.r Robert de Vaugondy Geog. Ord.du Roi. Paris, 1778. Limites en col. d'époque. Bel exemplaire. - Paper slightly age-toned. Good and dark impression. 480 x 670 mm.

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¤ Publication séparée. Une des premières cartes à nommer les Etats-Unis. - A separate issue. This is an updated version of map 1753.2 and one of the first maps to name the United States (Etats-Unis) in the title.
Covers Canada east of Lake Superior and south of James Bay, covers U.S. north of Albemarle Bay. Includes Newfoundland inset and pictorial title cartouche. Scale [ca. 1:3,800,000].
Complete title : Carte du / Canada/ et des / Etats-Unis / de l'Amérique Septentrionale / Par le S.r ROBERT DE VAUGONDY Geog. Ord.du Roi / du Feu Roi de Pologne Duc de Lorraine et de Bar, de la / Societé Royale de Nancy et Censeur Royal / A PARIS / Chez Fortin Ing.r Méchanicien du Roi pour les Globes et / Spheres, Rue de la Harpe pres celle de Foin. 1778.

127 COLTON, J.H. Travelers’ Rail Road Map of the United States to Accompany ‘Boston to Washington’ Riverside Series Centennial Guides. New York, G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co., 1876. Limites en col. d'époque. Carte lithographiée sur papier fin, repliée. - On very thin paper. Small rectangular sections of light toning. Excellent condition. 537 x 698 mm.

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¤ Lithographed folding map with excellent original outline hand color for state boundaries. 28 1/4 x 38" at neat line. Sheet size: 30 x 39 1/4". Three inset maps at right: “The Southern Portion of Texas,” “Plan of the Southern Portion of Florida,” “Western Portion of the United States” (7 x 7 5/8").
The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official world's fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Some 10 million visitors attended the exhibition, a number equivalent to about 20 percent of the population of the United States at the time (although many were repeat visitors).

The excitement over the exhibition and its large number of visitors provided a boom for the map and guidebook industry, as publishers rushed to meet the demand for information.
The present large and highly detailed map of the eastern United States was an insert from just such a guidebook. Titled Boston to Washington, the guide was part of a centennial series published by the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Owned and operated by H. O. Houghton, the press had a reputation for fine design and high-quality printing. George Mifflin became Houghton's partner in 1872 and eight years later the firm adopted the name Houghton, Mifflin and Company, by which it is still known today.

Houghton commissioned the Colton firm, the leading commercial map publisher of the time, to produce this map for the guidebook. The map exemplifies Colton’s reputation for quality and precision in the tremendous amount of information capably packed onto the sheet. The map focuses, of course, on the traveler’s needs, showing the nation’s railroad network and its concentration in the more industrialized areas of the country. Other details include towns, canals, and rivers. Mountain topography is especially good for the Appalachian chain and for the Rockies and Sierra Nevada in the inset map of the western United States.
A wonderful map of the United States in its centennial year and a fine record of the railroad system in the last third of the nineteenth-century. (text: William R. Talbot)

128 DE BRY, Th. Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis.. Francfort, 1590. Collé sur papier fort. Légèrement bruni dans la marge supérieure. - Laid on strong paper, small marginal repair. Paper slightly age-toned as usual, some browning in the upper margin. In good condition. 304 x 418 mm.

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¤ Deuxième état. La carte de John White, superbement gravée, est la première à représenter et à nommer la baie de Chesapeake. Ses tracés de côte serviront longtemps de source principale aux cartographes ultérieurs.
- John White's map, elegantly designed and superbly engraved, revolutionized geographic knowledge of the region. Although White left the Chesapeake poorly explored, much of his coastal data became the principal source for subsequent mappings for many years. John White was governor of the ill-fated Roanoke colony in North Carolina that was the first English attempt to settle North America. The earliest collectible map of Virginia and North Carolina and also the earliest to show and name the Chesapeake Bay.
Its numerous pictorial elements include English ships outside the Outer Banks and at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay, Indian canoes around the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, Indian figures, the royal arms of England, etc. Quinn describes the map as the "most careful detailed piece of cartography for any part of North America to be made in the sixteenth century."
A state two. - Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 847-8; Burden, 76 -S.2.