Jefferys Natural and Civil History... French Dominions
JEFFERYS, Thomas (1719-1771). The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America.
Published by London: Thomas Jefferys, 1760. Guidance: Christie's, 2007 - $38,400
2 parts in one volume. Folio (14 2/8 x 9 inches). Title-pages printed in red and black (some light browning). 18 fine engraved folding maps and plans by and after Jefferys and others (some offsetting, a few occasional short tears at folds, small pinhole to one map). Modern paneled calf antique. Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Amos Binney (1803-1847), founder curator and president of the Boston Society of Natural History, on the front paste-down; bookplate noting Binney's bequest to the Boston Society of Natural History on the front paste-down. First edition, and an attractive copy. "A monumental geographical work important equally for its text as well as its maps. This excellent copy contains the seldom-found seven inserted leaves which contain "The French attempt to retake Quebec in 1760." Also on page 80 of Part II is found a pasted on slip containing the parish names of both Guadeloupe and Grande Terre" (Streeter). One of the most important 18th-century cartographers of North America, and Geographer to the Prince of Wales, Jefferys in part one describes Canada and Louisiana, after the Jesuit accounts of Labat, Charlevoix and others. He includes detailed plans of Quebec, Montreal, New Orleans and the Siege of Quebec. In part II Jefferys describes the West Indies and South America, with maps of Quadaloupe, Grenada and "Martinico." Thomas Jefferys published some of "the most important eighteenth-century maps of the Americas, a series given cohesion and impetus by the preliminary hostilities and eventual outbreak of the Seven Years' War. Among many individual works of note were Joshua Fry's and Peter Jefferson's 1751 survey of Virginia, engraved and published by Jefferys in 1753, and Joseph Blanchard's and Samuel Langdon's New Hampshire (1761), the first published map of the state. The culmination of this concentration of work was the atlas published in association with Robert Sayer as A General Topography of North America in 1768. Posthumous collections were published by Sayer in 1775 as The American Atlas, The North-American Pilot, including important charts by James Cook, and The West-India Atlas, for which a collection of working drafts survives in the British Library" (DNB). Field 775; Howes J-83; Lande 471; Sabin 35964; Staton & tremaine/TPL 319; Streeter sale I:128; Waldon p. 454. Bookseller Inventory # 001341
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JEFFERYS, Thomas (1719-1771). The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America.
Published by London: Thomas Jefferys, 1760. Guidance: Christie's, 2007 - $38,400
2 parts in one volume. Folio (14 2/8 x 9 inches). Title-pages printed in red and black (some light browning). 18 fine engraved folding maps and plans by and after Jefferys and others (some offsetting, a few occasional short tears at folds, small pinhole to one map). Modern paneled calf antique. Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Amos Binney (1803-1847), founder curator and president of the Boston Society of Natural History, on the front paste-down; bookplate noting Binney's bequest to the Boston Society of Natural History on the front paste-down. First edition, and an attractive copy. "A monumental geographical work important equally for its text as well as its maps. This excellent copy contains the seldom-found seven inserted leaves which contain "The French attempt to retake Quebec in 1760." Also on page 80 of Part II is found a pasted on slip containing the parish names of both Guadeloupe and Grande Terre" (Streeter). One of the most important 18th-century cartographers of North America, and Geographer to the Prince of Wales, Jefferys in part one describes Canada and Louisiana, after the Jesuit accounts of Labat, Charlevoix and others. He includes detailed plans of Quebec, Montreal, New Orleans and the Siege of Quebec. In part II Jefferys describes the West Indies and South America, with maps of Quadaloupe, Grenada and "Martinico." Thomas Jefferys published some of "the most important eighteenth-century maps of the Americas, a series given cohesion and impetus by the preliminary hostilities and eventual outbreak of the Seven Years' War. Among many individual works of note were Joshua Fry's and Peter Jefferson's 1751 survey of Virginia, engraved and published by Jefferys in 1753, and Joseph Blanchard's and Samuel Langdon's New Hampshire (1761), the first published map of the state. The culmination of this concentration of work was the atlas published in association with Robert Sayer as A General Topography of North America in 1768. Posthumous collections were published by Sayer in 1775 as The American Atlas, The North-American Pilot, including important charts by James Cook, and The West-India Atlas, for which a collection of working drafts survives in the British Library" (DNB). Field 775; Howes J-83; Lande 471; Sabin 35964; Staton & tremaine/TPL 319; Streeter sale I:128; Waldon p. 454. Bookseller Inventory # 001341
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