ELIOT, J.B. Carte du Theatre de la Guerre actuel Entre les Anglais et les Treize Colonies Unies de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Dressee par J.B.Eliot Ingenieurs des Etats Unis . Paris: 1778. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 710 x 530mm. The map showing the principal area of the War of Independence extending from Chesapeake Bay to Boston and North to the Great Lakes, title set in an elaborate cartouche comprising a shield with a battle scene, scale bar, principal terroritories with borders coloured in maroon and green. (Lightly discoloured, the uncut deckle edges slightly soiled.) A fine and rare separately published early map of the American War of Independence, THE FIRST MAP TO BEAR THE NAME OF THE UNITED STATES, Eliot describing himself as an Engineer of the United States. Eliot was an American military engineer and aide-de-campe to General Washington, and after preparation he forwarded the draft for this map to Paris where it was engraved. The French had declared an alliance with the American Revolutionaries on May 4th 1778, and this map would have served to raise the interest in this conflict in France, as well as being a tacit recognition of American Independence. Due to its circulation in France, the Eliot map is particularly rare, there is no copy in the British Library, and NUC records only the Newberry Library copy. Only 2 other examples have been located, in the Library of Congress and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Schwartz and Ehrenberg Mapping of America plate 122; Phillips Maps of America in the Library of Congress 859.
ELIOT, J.B. Carte du Theatre de la Guerre actuel Entre les Anglais et les Treize Colonies Unies de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Dressee par J.B.Eliot Ingenieurs des Etats Unis . Paris: 1778. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, 710 x 530mm. The map showing the principal area of the War of Independence extending from Chesapeake Bay to Boston and North to the Great Lakes, title set in an elaborate cartouche comprising a shield with a battle scene, scale bar, principal terroritories with borders coloured in maroon and green. (Lightly discoloured, the uncut deckle edges slightly soiled.) A fine and rare separately published early map of the American War of Independence, THE FIRST MAP TO BEAR THE NAME OF THE UNITED STATES, Eliot describing himself as an Engineer of the United States. Eliot was an American military engineer and aide-de-campe to General Washington, and after preparation he forwarded the draft for this map to Paris where it was engraved. The French had declared an alliance with the American Revolutionaries on May 4th 1778, and this map would have served to raise the interest in this conflict in France, as well as being a tacit recognition of American Independence. Due to its circulation in France, the Eliot map is particularly rare, there is no copy in the British Library, and NUC records only the Newberry Library copy. Only 2 other examples have been located, in the Library of Congress and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Schwartz and Ehrenberg Mapping of America plate 122; Phillips Maps of America in the Library of Congress 859.
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