[World Atlas] A New Sett of Maps Both Antient and Present Geography . . . Together with A Geographical Treatise Particularly Adapted to the Use and Design of these Maps . . .

Edward Wells

Edité par Edward Wells, 1701

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Handsome Atlas with Instructional Map of North America showing California as an Island  Edward Wells was a mathematician and geography professor at Oxford, where he attended Christ Church on scholarship. He pro. Large oblong folio. Recent antique half speckled calf and blue-green pastepaper boards. Leather spine label. Some very minor dust soiling to margins. Small half-inch hole to map of Western Parts of Asia Minor. Old dampstaining to extreme lower margin of Europe and Spain maps. Map of South America with repaired tear in lower margin (printed image not affected). Map of the English Plantations in America with some soiling and old dampstaining. Otherwise, a very nice copy, with the maps generally clean, and with original outline hand-color. Title-page/contents leaf plus 41 double-page maps. Complete. Handsome Atlas with Instructional Map of North America showing California as an Island Edward Wells was a mathematician and geography professor at Oxford, where he attended Christ Church on scholarship. He produced numerous works on a range of subjects, including scientific books on astronomy, chronology, and geography. While some of the maps were originally published in 1699, the complete atlas was first available in 1700, and was reprinted thereafter in dated editions of 1701, 1702, 1704, 1714, 1718, 1722, and in undated editions. Wells prepared this atlas primarily as an instructional aid for schools, and the work is dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester, second in line to the throne of England when the maps were originally drafted, who was then attending school in Oxford. Gloucester died of a sudden fever in 1700, bringing about a succession crisis which was resolved with the Act of Settlement of 1701, the legislation that made way for the House of Hanover. Later editions of the atlas retained the dedication, despite Gloucester s death. Five of the maps directly relate to America: [1]. A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the ancient discoveries. [2]. A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe . according to the latest discoveries. [39]. A New Map of North America . [40]. A New Map of South America . [41]. A New Map of the Plantations of the English in America. The present copy of the atlas includes a nice example of the first state of Edward Wells map of North America. The map shows the entirety of the North American continent, or as much as was then known to Europeans. In general outline, the map follows Louis Hennepin s Carte d un tres grand Pays entre le Nouveau Mexique (1697) and his Carte d un tres grand Pais (1697). Hennepin s influence is especially evident in the Mississippi River area, which has its origin in Texas, and the eastern seaboard; Hennepin s name is directly mentioned near the Great Lakes. Wagner styles the map of the Briggs-Blaeu-Coronelli type. However, Wells also called on other sources, so as to include recent details like the French settlement at Biloxi in 1699, marked here as New French Settlement near the Gulf of Mexico. He also deviates from Hennepin in the shape and course of the Ohio River. Here it is called the Hotico River and runs east-west, alongside the also east-west, and surprisingly long, Appalachian Mountains. The Eastern seaboard contains the latest settlements and is split into colonies including Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New England, and continuing north to New Scotland and New Foundland. Towns include Charlestown, Jamestown, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Milford, Plymouth, Boston, and others. French presence is downplayed on the map in favor of English, as can be seen with the small size of New France a.

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• Titre: [World Atlas] A New Sett of Maps Both Antient and Present Geography . . . Together with A Geographical Treatise Particularly Adapted to the Use and Design of these Maps . . .
• Éditeur: Edward Wells
• Date de parution: 1701
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: VG
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Antique Maps