Detail View: JCB Map Collection: [Map of the northwestern part of South America]

Accession Number: 
34627
File Name: 
34627-020
Call number: 
Case C733 /1.3
Map title: 
[Map of the northwestern part of South America]
Place of Publication: 
London
Publisher: 
Sold at Stephen Austen's Bookseller in Newgate Street and by Thos. Willdey at the Great Toy Shop in St. Paul's Church Yard
Publication date: 
[ca. 1740]
Map size height: 
43 cm.
Map size width: 
67 cm.
Item description: 
Engraved key map and 20-sheet map bound together in boards
Geographical description: 
Map of the northwestern part of South America. Part of a 20-sheet map of North America which includes a vignette: Sr. Charles Wager's Engagement ... 1707, and insets: Fall of Niagara, Mexico, Quebec, New York, The Harbour of Placentia, The Harbour of Anapolis Royal, Boston Harbour, New York and Perth Amboy Harbours, The Bermuda or Summer Islands, Harbour of St. Augustine, Harbour of Providence, The Havanna, Bay of St. Iago in Cuba, Kingston Harbour in Jamaica, Plan of the Harbour of Port Antonio in Jamaica, Fort Royal in Martinica, The Island of Barbadoes, Antigua, Cartagene, Harbour of Porto Bello. Cartouche: [Allegory. European entry in America]. "London Engrav'd by William Henry Toms 1733," lower right, sheet 20.
Source author: 
Popple, Henry, d. 1743
Source title: 
A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto by Henry Popple
Source place: 
London: Sold at Stephen Austen's Bookseller in Newgate Street and by Thos. Willdey at the Great Toy Shop in St. Paul's Church Yard, [ca. 1740]
Cartobibliographic notes: 
20-sheet map state 3 [ca. 1740] according to Cumming/Wallis. Size varies. Key map state 3 [ca. 1740] according to Cumming/Wallis.
References: 
W.P. Cumming and H. Wallis, Popple's map of the British Empire, Lympne Castle, Kent, 1972. (Introductory note accompanying Cabinet/C733/1.1 FACSIM)
Geographic Area: 
western hemisphere
Historical notes: 
The first large-scale map of North America and the most accurate at the time, based on Popple's work at the Board of Trade and Plantations in London.
Normalized date: 
1740
LC bibliographic number: 
b53431467
Creator: 
Toms, William Henry