BERRY, William (1669-1708).
A Mapp of All the World.
Engraved map with original hand color in outline.
London: Berry, 1680.
23 1/2" x 37" sheet, 34 1/2" x 48 1/2" framed.

THE ENGLISH SANSON, showing England at the height of its Influence at the end of the 17th Century.

A fine world map showing all but the eastern coast of Australia, the eastern coast of New Zealand. William Berry's "A Mapp of all the World..." is a copy of the Sanson world map as published by Hubert Jaillot in 1674. Berry has patriotically marked the islands discovered by Drake just off Tierra del Fuego and has added New Albion in the northern part of California, shown as an island ... Berry advertised his two-sheet world map in the "Term Catalogues" for June 1680 and then in the "London Gazette". It was available either in sheet form or to be 'bound in books or pasted on cloath at reasonable rates" (Shirley). Chubb describes Berry as a bookseller, geographer, and engraver, who was active between about 1670 and 1703. His most enduring partnership was with map-maker Robert Morden, and together they dealt in topographical works, prints, maps, charts and globes. Berry corrected and amended a set of maps of the World, described by Nicolas Sanson as here, which were issued separately between 1680 and 1689" as a collection they are known as the English Sanson and are very rare" (Chubb). "