A Map of the British Empire in America, with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto

by c., Engraver, Cartographer

$155,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A bound example of the largest eighteenth-century wall map of the Thirteen Colonies, and the first to name all thirteen. Popple's was the first detailed map of British, French, and Spanish colonial possessions in North America. The most historically significant eighteenth-century cartographic work was the mapping of Colonial America. For the English, maps depicting territorial boundaries were vital due to claim conflicts with the French and Spanish. In this period, there was

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