Antique Map of Canada, Newfoundland & Acadia, Gulf of St Lawrence, Bonne c.1780

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Antique Map of Canada, Newfoundland & Acadia, Gulf of St Lawrence, Bonne c.1780

Name: Antique Map of Canada, Newfoundland & Acadia, Gulf of St Lawrence, Bonne c.1780
Brand: Rigobert Bonne
SKU: BG-14105-45
Price: 355 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1780
Maker: Rigobert Bonne
Kind: Maps
Size: 26 × 41 cm (10.2 × 16.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition with age-related toning, a visible central fold as issued, light scattered spotting, and minor handling wear consistent with eighteenth-century paper; margins remain suitable for framing.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-14105-45

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence in a copper engraving by Rigobert Bonne, circa 1780, titled "L'Isle de Terre Neuve, l'Acadie, ou la Nouvelle Écosse, l'Isle St. Jean et la Partie Orientale du Canada," credited "Par M. Bonne, Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine." The sheet is printed in black without color.

The gulf ("Golfe de St. Laurent") lies in the center, ringed by the Gaspé coast, Cape Breton, the island of St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) and Acadia, with the St. Lawrence River reaching in from the west. Newfoundland ("Terre Neuve") fills the upper right, with its heavily indented coast, and the "Grand Banc de Terre-Neuve" is lettered in the Atlantic to the southeast. "Esquimaux" is lettered across the northern coast of Labrador at the top. The lower left corner takes in the coast of New England and the Bay of Fundy, and two sets of scale bars at the upper right and lower center give French, English and marine leagues.

Bonne was hydrographer to the French navy at the Dépôt de la Marine in Paris, succeeding Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. The sheet covers the fishing grounds and coasts that France and Britain had contested for more than a century, and its detail is concentrated on the coastlines and harbors.

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