Historic Maps
1776 Map by Paolo Santini (1729-1793) titled "PARTIE ORIENTALE DU CANADA, AVEC LA NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE, L'ACADIE, ET LA TERRE-NUEVE"
1776-Dated First Edition, Hand-Colored Map titled, PARTIE ORIENTALE DU CANADA, AVEC LA NOUVELLE ANGLETERRE, L'ACADIE, ET LA TERRE-NUEVE, by P(aolo) Santini, Venice, Italy, Framed, Extremely Fine.
This is the First Edition of Paolo Santini's large Double-Page Map of Canada, including New York and New England, based upon D'Anville's seminal map of 1746. Santini's map includes the Northeastern Atlantic coastline showing the area from Philadelphia to Newfoundland and including New England, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. This map is based closely upon an earlier French version by D'Anville. It displays the same decorative cartouche as De Vaugondy's map of Canada, but does not include the inset map of the Great Lakes. Overall, it is highly decorative having a cartouche in the lower right quadrant that displays an American beaver and an animal pelt, as a reference to the lucrative fur trade in the area.
This map measures 18-3/4" x 22-5/8" (by sight) and comes professionally matted and framed under protective archival UV Plexiglas housed in a handsome gilt wooden frame to an overall size measuring 27" x 30.25", ready to hang on display. This is a bright clean and attractive map with excellent eye appeal. Not examined out of its frame. Certainly, its date "1776" is of added interest for American Revolutionary War and Map collectors.
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Paolo Santini (1729-1793) was an Venetian engraver known especially for his religious prints and fine Cartographic engravings. He published in Venice and may have a been a member of the clergy. In his engraved maps, he largely adopted and adapted the work of his French counterparts, especially the brothers de Vaugondy.
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SANTINI 1776 Map, Canada Map, Fur trade, Revolutionary War, First Edition