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MAP #: 200J5

CARTOGRAPHER : JAILLOT, A. H. [?]

DATE: 1700

SHORT TITLE : CARTE PARTICULIERE DE VIRGINIE, MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIE.

REMAINING TITLE & ID : LA NOUVELLE IARSEY. ORIENT ET OCCIDENTALE. (TITLE ABOVE TOP BORDER). SCALES IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LEAGUES (BOTTOM LEFT CORNER). "A AMSTERDAM CHEZ P. MORTIER, AVEC PRIVILEGE." (BELOW SCALES). 8 POINT COMPASS ROSES (LEFT AND RIGHT OF LOWER CENTER). LONGITUDE (NOT SHOWN). LATITUDE (TOP AND BOTTOM BORDERS).

DATE OF PUBLICATION : S1700
PLACE OF PUBLICATION : AMSTERDAM
PUBLISHER : PIERRE MORTIER
LANGUAGE(S) : FR
SIZE (HEIGHT X WIDTH) : 53.8 X 80.3 CM. (INCLUDING TITLE LETTERING)
SIZE - OTHER DATA : 61.4 X 91.4 CM. OM
SCALE - (RF) 1: : 600,000
SCALE - OTHER DATA : FROM LATITUDE SCALE
LIB. OF CONGRESS # : -
Md. HALL OF RECORDS # 1 : G1399-200
HUNTINGFIELD ACQ. # 1 : A025-L2
REGION CATEGORY : MAP WHERE THE MD/CHESAPEAKE AREA IS ONE MAIN FOCUS (1)
SPECIAL CATEGORY(IES) : AUGUSTINE HERRMAN DERIVATIVE (12)
# SHEETS TO MAP : 1
MAP ORIENTATION : W IS AT THE TOP OF THE MAP
RELIEF SHOWN ? : NO
HYDROGRAPHIC DATA : SOUNDINGS ARE IN FATHOMS.
: SHOALS ARE SHOWN BY SHADING.
CARTOUCHE : NONE, TITLE IS ABOVE TOP BORDER (1)
BORDER : GEOGRAPHICALLY FUNCTIONAL (8)
PRIME MERIDIAN(S) : NONE
SEE ALSO MAP #s : 189T5
BEST INFO SOURCE : KOEMAN IS THE BEST SOURCE FOUND.
DESCRIPTION : THIS LARGE SCALE MAP, CENTERED ON MARYLAND AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AREA, IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE HISTORY OF THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE REGION. IT IS AN EXACT COPY OF THE FIRST STATE OF THE 1689 MAP BY JOHN THORNTON (SEE MAP # 189T5). THORNTON'S MAP, IN TURN, IS DERIVED FROM AUGUSTINE HERRMAN'S MAP OF 1673. CUMMING ATTRIBUTES "CARTE PARTICULIERE..." TO NICOLAS SANSON HEIRS OR A.H. JAILLOT, WHOSE ATLASES WERE PUBLISHED BY MORTIER, BUT DATES THE MAP AS 1690-1696 FOR FIRST PUBLICATION.

IN 1693, MORTIER PUBLISHED A COUNTERFEITED COPY OF THE FRENCH NEPTUNE, BASED ON AN ORIGINAL FRENCH PROTOTYPE. LATER IN 1693 A NEW PART ENTITLED ATLAS MARITIME WAS PUBLISHED WITH 9 CHARTS ENGRAVED BY ROMEIN DE HOOGHE. THIS PART IS OFTEN FOUND BOUND TO THE INITIAL VOLUME. IN 1700, A SECOND ADDITONAL PART WAS PUBLISHED, ENTITLED SUITE DU NEPTUNE FRANCOIS, OU ATLAS NOUVEAU DES CARTES MARINES, WHICH WAS BASED ON MANUSCRIPT CHARTS COPIES BY D'ABLANCOURT FROM THE ORIGINALS IN PORTUGESE ARCHIVES. THE CHART DESCRIBED HEREIN WAS # 31 IN THAT VOLUME (SEE KOEMAN, IV, M. MOR 7, # 31). PHILLIPS ATLASES, # 517 LISTS ONLY 2 VOLUMES. APPARENTLY IT INCLUDED ATLAS MARITIME AS PART OF VOL. 1 AND SHOWS THE MAP AS " # [27]" APART FROM THE FIRST VOLUME, WHICH HAD A SECOND EDITION IN 1703, NONE OF THE ATLASES WERE REPUBLISHED. UNLIKE THE CUSTOM OF THE DAY, THESE CHARTS WERE NOT KEPT UP TO DATE AND APPARENTLY WERE ISSUED IN ONLY ONE STATE.

KOEMAN NOTES THAT MORTIER'S ATLAS WAS INTENDED MORE AS A SHOW-PIECE THAN AS A WORKING CHART FOR PILOTS AT SEA. THIS WOULD ACCOUNT FOR THE MAGNIFICANCE OF ITS PRODUCTION, WHICH SOMETIMES INCLUDED HIGHLIGHTING IN GOLD LEAF.

DATA IS FROM KOEMAN, VERNER, CUMMING'S "EARLY MAPS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY", AND MATHEWS.

EDITION & STATE INFO : ONLY A SINGLE EDITION AND STATE ARE THOUGHT TO EXIST.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A BEAUTIFUL COLORED COPY AS DESCRIBED. IT HAS A MDHR # OF G1399- 200 AND AN ACQ. # OF A025-L2.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : HERZOG AUGUST BIBLIOTEK, THE NEW WORLD IN THE TREASURES OF AN OLD EUROPEAN LIBRARY, EXHIBITION OF THE DUKE AUGUST LIBRARY, WOLFENBUTTEL: HERZOG AUGUST BIBLIOTEK, 1976, 131; KOEMAN, IR. C., ATLANTES NEERLANDICI, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD., 1967, V.3, 4-8, V.4, 423- 424, M. MOR 7, MAP 31; CUMMING, WILLIAM P., "EARLY MAPS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY", EARLY MARYLAND IN A WIDER WORLD, D.B. QUINN, ED. DETROIT: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1982, 193; MATHEWS, E.B., "BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY", MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. II, PART IIIb. BALTIMORE: THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS, 1897, 339; PHILLIPS, A LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AMSTERDAM: THEATRVM ORBIS TERRARVM, LTD., 1971 REPRINT, V. 1, # 517, V. 2, # 3229; PAPENFUSE AND COALE, ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS OF MARYLAND 1608-1908, BALTIMORE: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1982, FIG. 29; SWEM, EARL G., "MAPS RELATING TO VIRGINIA IN THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY...",VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY BULLETIN, V. 7, NOS 2 AND 3, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, # 119; VERNER, COOLIE, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON THE MAPS OF VIRGINIA.

November 29, 1989


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