Lot 240
Henry Popple (English, 18th c.), "A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto" (Louisiana/Texas, sheet 9), 1735, engraved by W.H. Toms & R.W. Seale, London, 21 in. x 28 3/4 in. Note: This important map is one sheet of the first large-scale map of North America, which, with all sheets assembled, would result in a map more than eight feet square. It was produced in 1733 for the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations to help settle British, French and Spanish territorial disputes. This 1735 state is identical except for the addition of a page number. Popple's only map, it so impressed Benjamin Franklin that he ordered two copies for the Pennsylvania Assembly. The maps spans from Pensacola, Fl., west past Santa Fe, and north to parts of Oklahoma; featuring details of rivers, towns, Indian tribes, settlements and portages. References: Cumming 216, Streeter 676, Lowery 337-8.
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