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Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

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Zustand: New. In English.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in 1755, Lewis Evans' 'A General Map of the Middle British Colonies' was the most comprehensive and accurate map of the American colonies at the time. In this book, readers will learn about the life and work of Lewis Evans and the process of creating his iconic map.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in 1755, Lewis Evans' 'A General Map of the Middle British Colonies' was the most comprehensive and accurate map of the American colonies at the time. In this book, readers will learn about the life and work of Lewis Evans and the process of creating his iconic map.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive account details the evolution of Lewis Evans' iconic map of the British colonies in America. With meticulous attention to detail, this book provides an in-depth analysis of eighteen different editions published between 1755 and 1814, shedding light on the cultural and political contexts in which they were produced.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Third edition, with the added notes. Small 4to (26 cm). (4), 4, (4) pp. Folding map (small cloth tape repair on verso at hinge). Original printed gray wrappers (browned around the edges), stitched. Still a good solid copy, untrimmed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. First. THE SIEBERT COPY -- THE VANISHINGLY RARE FIRST ISSUE & FIRST STATE MAP. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1755. First edition, first issue, first state (map). Quarto (10 7/16" x 7 7/8", 265mm x 200mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding engraved map with original hand-color (framed): "A general Map of the Middle British Colonies, in America." Bound in chestnut morocco by the Lakeside Bindery ("The Lakeside Press/ Chicago" gilt to the front lower turn-in) with a double gilt fillet border. On the spine, five raised bands. Author and title ("Evans/ Map/ of the/ Middle/ Colo-/nies") gilt to the second panel. Imprint gilt to the tail. Gilt inside dentelle. The faintest rubbing to the extremities. Damp to the upper edge of the text-block (not affecting the text, causing a tear (repaired) to the title-leaf). Sporadic foxing. Repaired chips to the fore-edge of a handful of leaves, with some rounding to the lower fore-corner of quires B-D. A remarkably large example. Pigment oxidation and some offsetting to the map. Lewis Evans (ca. 1700-1756) was a Welsh geographer, who emigrated to North America in the 1730's, spending a considerable portion of his life working in Philadelphia and traveling throughout the Middle Colonies (viz. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware). He had trained as a surveyor and became friends with Benjamin Franklin in 1736 after buying a book from him; it was Franklin who encouraged him to pursue his scientific and geographic interests and explore the East coast. Accompanied by Conrad Weiser, who had extensive connections with Native Americans in the region, and the botanist John Bartram, Evans collected material for a detailed map of New York, New Jersey and Delaware, which, later modified to include Pennsylvania, was published in 1749 as A Map of Pensilvania, New Jersey, New-York, and the Three Delaware Counties. Evans's best-known map, however, is A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, which spanned from the Falls of the Ohio to Narragansett Bay and from Virginia to Montreal. Though issued before the publication of the present item, it is often, as here, included with it. Evans in his analysis points out the advantages to the English colonies of the Ohio territory and vehemently urges a general study of that region and the ways by which it could be reached so that the French might be more easily driven out. He divides the eastern United States geomorphically for the first time, delineating the New England Upland, the Coastal Plain, the Fall Line, the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge, the Folded Appalachians, the Allegheny Front, and the Allegheny Plateau. Its importance in the colonial period is rivaled only by Mitchell's; Schwartz and Ehrenberg anoint it "one of the most improtant maps published in America before Independence." The book, published by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, is one of the white whales of colonial Americana, and the map -- especially in its first state, without the addition of "The Lakes Cataraqui" above Lake Ontario -- even more desirable. The two together are perhaps the ultimate Americanum. Dr. Frank T. Siebert (1912-1997) was one of the greatest twentieth-century book-collectors, especially in the field of Americana and more particularly Native American material (his sale at Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1999, in which the present volume was lot 267, was "The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian and the American Frontier"). He collected works of the utmost rarity, finest condition and greatest importance. A pathologist by training, his name laces the account-books of the great post-war sellers and collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. Church 1003; Evans 7411; Howes E 226; Pritchard & Taliaferro 34; Sabin 23175; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, p. 165; Streeter II:819.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Second. THE FRANK S. STREETER COPY OF "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAPS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BEFORE INDEPENDENCE". Second edition of the text, with the second state of the map. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. Quarto (9 3/16" x 6 15/16", 234mm x 176mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding engraved map. Bound in modern crushed red morocco with a blind fillet border. On the spine, five raised bands. Title and author gilt to the second panel, date gilt to the tail. Presented in a blue cloth four-fold box. A little soiling to the title-page. Trimmed at the lower edge, just touching the catch-word on p. 17. A few graphite marginalia. Some little tears at the folds, and a stub-tear to the map, which is otherwise a rich impression. Bookplate of Frank S. Streeter to the front paste-down. Lewis Evans (ca. 1700-1756) was a Welsh geographer, who emigrated to North America in the 1730's, spending a considerable portion of his life working in Philadelphia and traveling throughout the Middle Colonies (viz. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware). He had trained as a surveyor and became friends with Benjamin Franklin in 1736 after buying a book from him; it was Franklin who encouraged him to pursue his scientific and geographic interests and explore the East coast. Accompanied by Conrad Weiser, who had extensive connections with Native Americans in the region, and the botanist John Bartram, Evans collected material for a detailed map of New York, New Jersey and Delaware, which, later modified to include Pennsylvania, was published in 1749 as A Map of Pensilvania, New Jersey, New-York, and the Three Delaware Counties. Evans's best-known map, however, is A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, which spanned from the Falls of the Ohio to Narragansett Bay and from Virginia to Montreal. Though issued before the publication of the present item, it is often, as here, included with it. Evans in his analysis points out the advantages to the English colonies of the Ohio territory and vehemently urges a general study of that region and the ways by which it could be reached so that the French might be more easily driven out. He divides the eastern United States geomorphically for the first time, delineating the New England Upland, the Coastal Plain, the Fall Line, the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge, the Folded Appalachians, the Allegheny Front, and the Allegheny Plateau. The present second edition is, essentially, a page-for-page reprint of the first, published earlier the same year. Schwartz and Ehrenberg anoint the map as above; along with Mitchell's map of the same year (which, unlike Franklin's Philadelphia production, was published in London), it paints the most authoritative picture of the impending theater of war. The present second state of the map is distinguished by the additional legend "The Lakes Cataraqui" above Lake Ontario. From the collection of Frank Sherwin Streeter (1918-2006), purchased at his sale ("Important navigation, Pacific voyages, cartography, science") at Christie's New York 16 April 2007, lot 185 ($168,000). Streeter was the son of the legendary Americana collector Thomas Streeter, whose sale catalogue has become a reference work in its own right. Some of his collection he inherited from his father (those he did not he would often buy back), but other volumes he added over many decades until his death. Church 1003; Evans 7411; Howes E 226; Pritchard & Taliaferro 34; Sabin 23175; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, p. 165; Streeter II:819 (first edn.). …

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 41, [3]; inscribed by Stevens to Harold Murdock Esq on front endpaper; original red cloth gilt; touch of fading to top edge, small water stain on lower cover, text clean, very good. According to the preface Stevens intended to publish a single copy to accompany his collection, but as the information seemed useful as a general guide to map points "a few copies have been printed for presentation and sale.".…

Soft cover. Very good. Original centerfold and pressmark. Size 21 x 27 Inches. A fine example of the 1780 Carington Bowles edition of the Lewis Evans map of the Middle British Colonies - one of the most important maps to emerge out of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). Essentially a piracy of a piracy, this is the Carington Bowles 1780 piracy of the 1771 Kitchen/Jefferys piracy of the 1755 Lewis Evans map - here given new relevance in the context of the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). There are numerous subtle changes over earlier editions although the essential Lewis Evans chart - the finest and most comprehensive treatment of the Trans-Appalachia and the Ohio Valley from the French and Indian War through the Revolutionary period - remains the core. Pre-release editions of this map were circulated among British officers, including Major-General Edward Braddock (1695 - 1755), who consulted them during his disastrous 1755 expedition against the French-occupied Ohio River Valley (he was killed in the effort - but not for lack of cartographic reconnaissance). The Lewis Evans Map Lewis Evans produced his 1755 map in the context of the French and Indian War. While the Ohio Valley was little traveled and only tenuously understood, it was clear that control of the vast territory was the definitive next step in expansion of colonial power in America. As described by a contemporary, James Maury, in his 1756 Huguenot Family , It is but small, not above half as large as Fry and Jefferson's, consequently crowded. It gives an attentive peruser a clear idea of the value of the now contested lands and waters to either of the two competitor princes, together with a proof, amounting to more than a probability, that of the two who shall remain master of the Ohio and the Lakes must in the course of a few years become sole and absolute lord of North America. Evans himself writes on the map, just southeast of Long Island, Were nothing at Stake between the Crown of Great Britain and France but the Lands on the Ohio we may recon it as great a Prize as has ever been contended for between two nations. For this Country is of that vast Extent Westwards as to exceed in good Land all the European Dominions of Great Britain, France, and Spain and which are almost destitute of Inhabitants. It is impossible to conceive that had his Majesty been made acquainted with its vales and great Importance the large Stride the French have been making for several years past in their Incroachments on his Dominions that his Majesty would Sacrifice one of the best Gems in his Crown to their Usurpation and boundless Ambition. Sources Evans did not personally travel to the Ohio, but he did spend time in the Pennsylvania hinterland and around the Finger Lakes as a surveyor and naturalist, and while working for Thomas Penn on the Pennsylvania-Maryland Border Dispute. In the course of that work, he befriended many travelers who had explored the Trans-Appalachia. For his map, he consulted earlier maps and dredged new data from the accounts of these explorers, military men, trappers, and traders. He relied extensively on the journals of William Franklin for the Ohio, as well as Joshua Fry (c. 1700 - 1754), and fur traders Joseph Dobson, Alexander Maginty, and. Alexander Lowery. He pulls data from William West regarding the course of the Potomac and John Davidson for the Cayúga River. These are just a few of his rich pool of sources. A Closer Look The resulting map surpassed any that preceded it and was praised by contemporaries over the great John Mitchell map, which appeared in the same year. Although embracing from the Middle Atlantic seaboard and Narragansett Bay nearly as far west as the Mississippi, and from Montreal to the Chesapeake, the map's focus is on the Ohio Valley and the Ontario-Erie corridor. Detail is at once rich and sparce. Data follows the course of the major river systems, with little content away from navigable waterways. He does, however, note the land.…