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1739 COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C. - A very detailed map of North America extending from Hudson's Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies
L'Amerique septentrionale, Dressée sur les memoires les plus recens. . .
| Maker: | COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C. | |
| Date: | Amsterdam, 1739 | |
| Colored: | In original outline colors. | |
| Size: | 447 x 578 mm / 17.6 x 22.8 inches | |
| Condition: | Printed on heavy paper. A good and dark impression. In good condition. | |
-This item is available for immediate sale
$900 / ≈ €804
Description
A very detailed map extending from Hudson Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies. The map is a later copy of Guillaume de L'Isle's foundation map of North America, originally prepared in 1700.< br> < br> De L'Isle's map was one of the earliest maps to restore the peninsula form for California, and has a much improved outline for the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley.
The map shows select towns and cities, forts, Indian villages, tribal territory, and relief.
Reference: Tooley, the continent 4.
Covens & Mortier (Amsterdam, 1721–c. 1866)
For almost two centuries, Covens & Mortier was the most important Dutch publishing house in commercial cartography. It was also the last great Amsterdam map firm of the 18th century.The firm’s roots lie with Pierre (Pieter) Mortier (1661–1711), who spent the early 1680s in Paris before receiving the right to publish the maps of French cartographers in Amsterdam. He was an engraver and the son of a French refugee. This privilege made him the Dutch outlet for Delisle, Jaillot, Sanson and their contemporaries. After his death in 1711, the business passed to his widow (until 1719), then to his son Cornelis and his brother David (until 1721).
On 20 November 1721, Cornelis Mortier and Johannes Covens I founded the company. Covens had recently married Cornelis’s sister, so the firm was a family enterprise from the start.
The firm mainly published French geographers including Delisle, Jaillot and Sanson, and reissued Frederik de Wit’s Atlas Major in 1725. It also issued pocket atlases and town atlases. Its growth came largely from acquiring other publishers’ copperplates. The purchase of Pieter van der Aa’s plates in 1730 is a notable example. Its stock also included plates going back to Johannes Janssonius and Claes Jansz. Visscher. At its height, the firm held the largest collection of geographic prints ever assembled in Amsterdam.
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We provide professional descriptions, condition report (based on 45 years experience in the map business)Paulus Swaen warrants the authenticity of our items and a certificate of authenticity is provided for each acquired lot.
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We indicate the condition of each item and use our unnique HiBCoR grading system in which four key items determine a map's value: Historical Importance, Beauty, Condition/Coloring and Rarity.
Color Key
We offer many maps in their original black and white condition. We do not systematically color-up maps to make them more sellable to the general public or buyer.
Copper engraved or wood block maps are always hand colored. Maps were initially colored for aesthetic reasons and to improve readability. Nowadays, it is becoming a challenge to find maps in their original colors and are therefor more valuable.
We use the following color keys in our catalog:
Original colors; mean that the colors have been applied around the time the map was issued.
Original o/l colors; means the map has only the borders colored at the time of publication.
Colored; If the colors are applied recently or at the end of the 20th century.
Read more about coloring of maps [+]
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1739 COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C. - A very detailed map of North America extending from Hudson's Bay to Panama, and including the West Indies
$900 / ≈ €804
Date: Amsterdam, 1739
