DANIEL, R[ichard] (18th Century); BROWNE, Christopher, (fl. 1684-1712).
A New Mapp of New England and Annapolis with the Country['s] adjacent.
Engraved map by W. Binneman with an inset map of Boston harbor.
London: Sold by C. Browne at the North Gate of the Royal Exchange & by him at the Globe by the West-end of St. Pauls Church, [1712].
19 1/2" x 23 1/4" sheet.

THIRD AND FINAL STATE OF THE MAP, with the inset of Carolina replaced by a large plan of Boston harbor.

The original Daniel map of 1679 was first offered for sale by Robert Morden and William Berry, while the subsequent ca. 1684 edition was published by Morden alone; both are described at length by Burden. Scarce: Only 2 copies of the first state are known to exist. Burden locates 12 copies of the second state in institutions and private collections and of the third 14 copies. Only two copies of the second state have sold at auction in the past 15 years.

Christopher Browne (fl. 1648-1712) was known to have purchased plates from other map dealers and alter them. The "Daily Courant" (London, 2 August 1712) contains an advertisement announcing publication of the present map. The major alteration to the map, outside of the imprint, is the inset map of Boston harbor, largely drawn from Thomas Pound's extremely rare "A New Mapp of New England" (1691). This issue also celebrates the English defeat of the French at Port Royal with a squadron of ships in October 1710. "ARCADIA NOW ANNAPOLIS" is added to the region, and Port Royal was renamed Annapolis in honor of the Queen. "Control was not confirmed until the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 which ended the war of Spanish Succession" that had raged in Europe since 1701 and, known as Queen Anne's War in North America, the conflict erupted there in 1702.

By the terms of the treaty, the French ceded to the British Acadia, Newfoundland, and the Hudson Bay territory, retaining only Cape Breton Island. However, the French interpreted the terms "all Nova Scotia with its ancient boundaries" to signify only the peninsula of present day Nova Scotia while excluding all of the mainland between New England and the St. Lawrence. This interpretation fueled future conflicts but the treaty marked the beginning of the end of French dominance in North America.

BINDING/CONDITION: Matted and framed, not examined out of frame. Skillful repairs to centerfold crease, with the "y's" in "Country's" altered by hand to read "Country."

PROVENANCE: Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III (sale, Sotheby's New York, 19 January 2019, lot 1137); Martayan Lan Augustyn, New York, 2020.

REFERENCES: Burden, The Mapping of North America, 514.