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263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    
263 America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740] Provenance: Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s; Thence by descent to the present owner   Literature: Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7 *** One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century. Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use. "A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).    

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America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740]

Provenance:
Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s;

Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature:
Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7

⁂ One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century.


Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use.


"A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).

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America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, 1733 [but circa 1740]  

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America.- Popple (Henry) A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, engraved folding key map [Babinski state 4; showing the track line of Spanish Galleons], with large engraved wall map on 15 engraved double-page and 5 single-page map sheets, page numbers present, Harding and Toms imprint on map sheet 17 [Babinski state 7], with Tom's imprint present on map sheet 20 without Searle's name, all on cream laid paper with large Strasbourg Lily watermarks, wide margins, mounted on stubs, double page sheets each approx. 535 x 730 mm (21 x 28 3/4 in), single sheet maps each approx. 535 x 370 mm (21 x 14 1/2 in), some minor spotting and browning, occasional surface dirt throughout, minor toning to extremities of some sheets, printer's crease to sheet 17, minor marginal wormhole damage to a few sheets in the lower centre, well outside the platemarks, key map with some early marginal ink inscriptions, minor splitting to foot of fold, front free endpaper with ink gridlines, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with losses, rubbed and very worn, folio, S. Harding and W. H. Toms, 1733 [but circa 1740]

Provenance:
Probably purchased by a Scottish merchant in the 1740s;

Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature:
Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 20-sheet map state 7

⁂ One of most important large scale English maps of North America published in the 18th Century.


Henry Popple's Map of the British Empire in America was originally intended as a means of refereeing the competing claims of the English, French and Spanish colonists and delineating their respective territories on North American soil. Popple lacked any formal training or experience as a mapmaker prior to this, his only known cartographic work. Accordingly, he made use of any available printed and manuscript maps he could get his hands on, consulting a variety of English and French sources; most notably Delisle'sCarte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississippi, 1718, Guillaume Delisle's Carte du Canada, 1703 and the maps of Herman Moll. The resultant, monumental map - nearly eight feet squared when joined - bears witness to the rapidly growing knowledge of the interior of North America, with copies of Popple's map being sent to the governors of each English colony for official use.


"A fundamental centerpiece of any serious collection of North American maps" (Babinski,Henry Popple's 1733 Map, 1998, p. 151).

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