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A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity

1 pp 1776

While a few of the charts in Des Barress Atlantic Neptune featured long stretches of the coast line , many focused on specific localities, such as this chart of Boston Bay. This is the earliest issue of Des Barres fine chart of the Bay. This chart also serves as an example of how the exigencies of war contributed to the history of American cartography as often as trade or discovery. Commissioned by the British Admiralty for military use, Des Barrescharts were the most dependable charts at the outset of the American Revolution.

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A chart of the Harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks and other directions

1 pp 1800

One of the last of the 18th-century nautical surveys of Boston Harbor, this chart contains many aids to navigation, including soundings, sailing marks, and other directions. The atlas from which it is taken was first published in 1775 by London publishers Robert Sayer and John Bennett. The atlas was later expanded by their assistants and successors Robert Laurie and James Whittle to include this and other charts. It was one of the three successful marine atlases published in England to replace the obsolete The English Pilot.

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A chart of the coast of America from New found Land to Cape Cod

1 pp 1675

Published in Seller's Atlas Maritimus, the earliest general marine atlas produced in England, this was the first English chart of New England waters. It clearly shows the northern navigation routes with soundings, as well as the islands and lucrative fishing banks off the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Boston and Charlestown are also located and named. While the Atlas Maritimus was Seller's first attempt at breaking the Dutch monopoly on the publication of nautical atlases, he is also credited with the inception of The English Pilot, the standard guide for English navigators throughout the 18th century.

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A chart of the harbour of Boston

1 pp 1781

This survey of Boston Harbor, first published in 1775 in Des Barres's Atlantic Neptune, was the pre-eminent chart of the harbor produced in the 18th century. It was used by the Royal Navy during the American Revolution, and long after that conflict by American and English merchants. The chart was based on surveys by George Callendar, master of His Majesty's Ship Romney, stationed in Boston Harbor in 1769. Displayed here is the fourth state of the chart which depicts the inland topography in great detail. Roads, taverns, streams and farmhouses are shown throughout the countryside.

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A chart of the sea coast of New Foundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, with Virginia and Maryland

1 pp 1713

First published in 1689, John Thornton's chart of the north Atlantic seacoast illustrates the type of nautical charts available to navigators in the Fourth Book of the English Pilot, which was the standard resource for mariners at the time. The charts were flawed with numerous inaccuracies, and did not provide enough detail to have been truly beneficial to those sailing close to the shore. Many ships were damaged off the coasts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia because accurate and comprehensive charts of the area were not available to those navigating to Canada from England. Featured here is state one from plate II. This new plate contains mainly bibliographical changes. This example is rare for its contemporary color, unusual in the English Pilot series. The chart showed all English ports in the Northeast, including Boston, Charlestown, and Dorchester.

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A chart of the sea coast of New Foundland, New Scotland, New York, New Jersey, with Virginia and Maryland and New England

1 pp 1749

The 1749 pirated Dublin edition of "The English Pilot, The Fourth Book" included two relatively rare charts showing the New England coast. Although the charts in the Dublin edition resemble those in the London edition of "The English Pilot", they were entirely re-engraved. The chart displayed here shows the entire northeastern coast line from the Chesapeake Bay north to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Newfoundland. The other chart, which was drawn at a larger scale, focuses on just the New England coast line from the Hudson River to the Penobscot River.

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A correct map of the coast of New England

1 pp 1758

A large fold-out chart of the New England coast appeared from 1732 to 1760 in "The English Pilot, The Fourth Book", the standard 18th-century British navigational guide to American waters. "The English Pilot", a continually updated collection of charts, was published in numerous editions for 100 years beginning in 1689. It was used primarily by American and English captains sailing in the Caribbean waters and along the east coast of North America. Reduced from a chart published in 1729 by Boston ship captain and America's earliest chart maker Cyprian Southack, this particular chart shows the northeastern coast from Long Island to New Scotland (Nova Scotia). It includes an inset of Boston Harbor, one of the few harbor maps published during this period of rapid expansion in Boston.

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A correct map of the coast of New England

1 pp 1737

A large fold-out chart of the New England coast appeared from 1732 to 1760 in "The English Pilot, The Fourth Book", the standard 18th-century British navigational guide to American waters. "The English Pilot" a continually updated collection of charts, was published in numerous editions for 100 years beginning in 1689. It was used primarily by American and English captains sailing in the Caribbean waters and along the east coast of North America. Reduced from a chart published in 1729 by Boston ship captain and America's earliest chart maker Cyprian Southack, this particular chart shows the northeastern coast from Long Island to New Scotland (Nova Scotia). It includes an inset of Boston Harbor, one of the few harbor maps published during this period of rapid expansion in Boston.

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A large draught of New England, New York and Long Island

1 pp 1749

The 1749 pirated Dublin edition of The English Pilot, The Fourth Book included these two relatively rare charts showing the New England coast. Although the charts in the Dublin edition resemble those in the London edition of The English Pilot, they were entirely re-engraved. The chart displayed here focuses on the New England coast from the Hudson River to the Penobscot River. It also includes an inset of Boston Harbor. The other chart, which was drawn at a smaller scale, delineates the entire northeastern coast from the Chesapeake Bay north to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Newfoundland.

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A map of New England and New York

1 pp 1676

This beautifully engraved and colored map represents an English version of the Jansson-Visscher series of maps of northeastern North America. Since it was published shortly after the expulsion of the Dutch from New York, the map displays geographical features similar to those found on its Dutch counterparts. However, the place names New Netherlands and New Amsterdam have been rechristened New York reflecting British control of the former Dutch colony. This map appeared in Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell's 1676 edition of John Speed's world atlas, first published in 1627.

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A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet does it sufficiently shew the scituation of the country, and conveniently well the distance of places

1 pp 1677

Based on a 1665 survey by William Reed, this is the earliest map drawn, engraved and printed in North America. The survey was commissioned by the government of Massachusetts to justify the colony's northern and southern boundaries, which are indicated by two parallel lines on the map. The map was prepared as a woodcut illustration for William Hubbard's account of the terrible Indian massacres of 1675, known as King Phillip's War, which was published simultaneously in Boston and London. The latter edition included the same map (displayed here), except the White Hills were mislabeled as the Wine Hills.

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A map of the coast of New England, from Staten Island to the island of Breton

1 pp 1737

This fine chart of the New England coast was based on surveys conducted by Cyprian Southack, sea captain and resident of the city of Boston. His original chart, first printed in Boston in 1734, is known in only three copies. It was the earliest example of a marine survey produced by an American. Displayed here is a latter state which was published in The English Pilot, the standard guide for English navigation at the time. The inset of Boston closely follows the earliest printed plan of the city, first published in 1722 by John Bonner.

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A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet does it sufficiently shew the scituation of the country, and conveniently well the distance of places

A map of the coast of New England, from Staten Island to the island of Breton