POPPLE, Henry (d.1743). A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent therto. London, ca 1734
Engraved map of America, hand-colored in outline, image 509 x 485 mm (sheet 531 x 500 mm). Decorative cartouche depicting Native Americans and European settlers, insets of Niagara Falls, Mexico, Quebec, and New York, small insets of 18 important harbors including Boston, New York, Charleston, and Porto Bello. (Small paper flaw upper margin, some light spotting, margins lightly toned.)
FIRST EDITION, BABINSKI'S FIRST STATE of Popple's key map: without imprint below border at lower left, imprint bottom right "W.H. Toms Sculp.", with the course of the Spanish galleons not present, Cape May and Cape Henlopen not named off Delaware Bay. This copy is like "most, if not all, colored copies [which] do not have the 4 corner views or the title cartouche at bottom left colored" (Babinski). The key map accompanied Popple's first large-scale map of North America printed on 20 sheets (see previous lot). Babinski, Henry Popple's 1733 Map of the British Empire in America Key Map; Cummins 217.
The Fine Cartographic and Printed Americana Collection of Evelyn and Eric Newman
